FareWELL. Jorge Albuerne / Zirkus Frak

“Once you get a clear feel for the basic premise, develop a few safety skills, and get your reflexes primed and ready, then you’re off. You learn by doing.”
Nancy Stark Smith

For years I gave my body to the circus practice of Chinese Pole, offering it my most passionate dedication, thousands of hours of sweat, hundreds of miles of vertical walking, bruises, blood and burns.

That distilled phrase: “the pole eats human flesh”.

The sublimation of all that pain in seconds of timeless lightness, of ephemeral suspension, of aerial beauty, of fleeting and at the same time inextinguishable success – that inner fire, that energy – offered us the possibility of being immortal, defying gravity and our bodies.

Now it is time to bid FareWELL.