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"I feel comfortable in the air."

"I feel comfortable in the air."

Peruvian trapeze artist, Gabriela Cavallini, flies atop the tent with a fellow performer and member of her extended family, Marco Cavallini, on Saturday, March 28. “I’m not as good as my husband but I feel comfortable in the air,” Cavallini said. Although accidents do happen in the circus, the trapeze act has one of the best safety records of the show.

The Waiting is the Hardest Part "Clean, affordable and kid safe entertainment.”  "The tent is enormous." "My whole family is in the circus." "I don’t care what the doctors think."  The Official Carson & Barnes Circus Coloring Book Stretching Together Before the Show Often Working from Dawn to Dusk "I feel comfortable in the air." For the Elephants to Enter Doesn’t Know Where to Look Dismantling the Universe Every Night  Melvino Has Been in Several Circuses