Sentences with phrase «sword swallowers»

According to the website, where videos of acts can also be seen, The Amazement Show «features 10 astonishing illusions and jaw - dropping acts, including sword swallowers, fire eaters, trick ropers, contortionists, circus hula hoopers, snake charmers, a strongwoman, and more!»

This family - fun event features midway games and rides for all ages, favorite fair food and old - time sideshow acts under the big top, from sword swallowers and fire eaters to escape artists and other exciting acts.

Be sure to explore the science of juggling, the human cannonball, sword swallowers at Circus!

She initially trained for more than six months with a master sword swallower to be able to insert a blade into her mouth, past the larynx and pharynx, through the esophagus, and into the stomach.

The Gag Artist Sword Swallower Charon Henning The body's intense and altogether understandable aversion to having a steel spike stuck down the throat is the greatest challenge facing Charon Henning, a renowned sword swallower.

But the exhibition has many works that examine the non-political, works that stand at the intersection between art and life: a Robert Frank photograph of three members of a motorcycle crew, a Harry Callahan photograph of Cape Cod, a Diane Arbus photograph of an albino sword swallower.

Lyon's travels with Chicago biker gangs and Arbus's sword swallowers form a dramatic counterpoint to a trove of mid century images from Casa Susanna, a community of cross-dressers enjoying country life en femme.

Rodrigo is one of several circus acts expected to perform at this year's Bestival, including sword swallowers, acrobats and mutant jugglers.

Landlubbers Day also includes a mermaid grotto featuring photo opportunities with beautiful mermaids, and live street performances from a number of Seaport Village's talented buskers — from sword swallowers to rock balancers — along the boardwalk.

In the 19th century, sword swallowers were enlisted to test the feasibility of shoving a long tube down the throat in the procedure now called endoscopy.

«In 1868 Dr. Adolph Kussmaul at the University of Freiberg, Germany, developed the rigid endoscope, by using a sword swallower as his guinea pig.

And sword swallowers have been used throughout the years as guinea pigs for the medical and science communities.

The place was a live - in hostel ($ 4 - 5 a night) full of traveling street merchants, artisans, jugglers, streetlight artists, fire breathers, sword swallowers and musicians.

Drift deeper into these paintings with listening stations that feature an array of unexpected voices, ranging from a dog trainer and a ten - year old to a sword swallower and a landscape horticulturalist.

To celebrate the radical performance element of the works, which were painted with the artist's bare hands and feet and studded with razors and nails, circus performers including a sword swallower, a human cannon and two burlesque acrobats entertained diners.

I was much taken with the idea of becoming a sword swallower last night after seeing an item about sword swallowing on BBC London News.