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NY Underwater Episode 3: Trapeze

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Today's hottest performances can't be found in upscale concert halls or downtown galleries, but behind swiveling library bookcases and down secret sets of spiral stairs. Enter the world of New York's underground performance art. Turn left for knife-juggling unicyclists and pianotop contortionists. Turn right for sequined samba dancers and burlesque beauties. Look above for lithe trapeze artists and graceful firespinners, and head down the stairs to see bikepunk kids dive their bikes, parkour-style, into giant dumpster pools. This is a world of spectacle, of risk-takers, the decadent, and the freaks. It is colorful. It is dark. It is unique. This is New York Underwater. In Episode 3, we tumble and turn in the lithe world of trapeze art at the Creme of the Big Top.
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