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Revision as of 01:29, 31 December 2010
The Feller Boys (also known as The Feller Boys & Dodo) had a remarkable tight wireA tight, light metallic cable, placed between two platforms not very far from the ground, on which a wire dancer perform dance steps, and acrobatic exercises such as somersaults. (Also: Low Wire) act that combined tight wireA tight, light metallic cable, placed between two platforms not very far from the ground, on which a wire dancer perform dance steps, and acrobatic exercises such as somersaults. (Also: Low Wire), hand-to-handAn acrobatic act in which one or more acrobats do hand-balancing in the hands of an under-stander. balancing and teeterboardA seesaw made of wood, or fiberglass poles tied together, which is used to propel acrobats in the air.. It lasted about twenty years, and was active in the 1960s and 1970s. The act was composed of Hans Bruckson, who was the bottom man, Dodo, his wife, and Gianni Huesca, his brother-in-law.
See Also
- Video: The Feller Boys & Dodo, Tight Wire Act, at the London Hippodrome (c.1965)
- Biography: Fumagalli
