Lang & Cravat

Burt Lancaster is a new fave. And it's not just the face. Nor is it just the physique. Actually, this is my favorite part of his biography: Nick Cravat. This life-long friend of Lancaster was also his partner in a doubles acrobatic/trapeze routine in the mid 1930s and 1940s. He starred alongside Lancaster in nine films. In most he was mute. Cravat's daughter attributes this to his incredibly strong east-coast accent.

Cravat died in January and Lancaster in October of 1994.

A great aside is that the Circus Center has a fabulous doubles acrobatic act. Weirdly, our strong-man base bears a striking resemblance to Lancaster. Take a look for yourself.

Liar, Liar Pants on Fire

I have started to think that my friends and fellow nursing students don't really believe this whole circus shtick of mine. Frankly, since nursing school started I don't really believe it anymore either. Well, there's photographic evidence. (I know, I know -- I'm faceless. But there is HIPAA to contend with here, so enough already.)

A Brief Circus History

After training since the summer of 2006, off and on, in acrobatics and on the static trapeze - and since December on the tissu - I decided that today I would try out a new circus apparatus, the single point trapeze.

Like all circus endeavors: humbling.