00:00Hair-hanging feels unique to me because I feel like it's the only form of aerial where you're working without an apparatus.
00:06So usually with silks or trapeze, it would be you and the thing you're working with.
00:11With hair-hanging, it's just you. So that feels really magical to me. It feels like the most like flying.
00:21Hi, my name is Erin Blair and I'm a hair-hanging aerialist.
00:30Hair-hanging is a traditional circus practice, where you arrange your hair in such a way that you can hang from it and do aerial.
00:41I wanted to try hair-hanging because I've been doing circus for a long time and I love always pushing the limits of what my body can do and hair-hanging seemed like a really exciting way to keep going further.
00:59To train for hair-hanging, you have to condition your body. You need a very strong spine and neck. You have to sort of train your hair and your scalp.
01:06I take a lot of vitamins. I take very good care of my hair and learning how to do that definitely took me some time in practice.
01:11I wanted to try hair-hanging because I've been doing circus for a long time and I love always pushing the limits of what my body can do.
01:17And hair-hanging seemed like a really exciting way to keep going further.
01:21The challenges with this type of performance, there's a lot of pain. If not done correctly, hair-hanging could of course be very dangerous.
01:41You could lose a lot of hair. You could potentially have the hair come undone. You could fall if you're very high up. That could be extremely dangerous.
01:50And it's been really amazing to me to see like how much the body can do and so I really try to explore that.
02:00Like how much I can express with my body, how strong I can be, how flexible I can be through my acts.
02:07How much Wilcox
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