How the Cyr Wheel Works
You ’re at the circus . Not the old - fashioned Barnum & Bailey - dash genus Circus withlion tamersand " Ladies and gentleman’s gentleman ! " but the modern version popularize by Cirque de Soleil — darker , more exotic and very , very French . The lights go down and a individual spotlight illuminate a man in the center mob . He ’s alone , except for a gravid aluminum tintinnabulation that he grips with one helping hand like an oversized Hawaiian dancing - basketball hoop ....