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.
00:53And hair hanging seems like a really exciting way to keep going further.
00:58I 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.
01:05And hair hanging seemed like a really exciting way to keep going further.
01:10To train for hair hanging, you have to condition your body. You need a very strong spine and neck.
01:16You have to sort of train your hair and your scalp. I take a lot of vitamins. I take very good care of my hair.
01:23And learning how to do that definitely took me some time in practice.
01:33The challenges with this type of performance, there's a lot of pain.
01:37If not done correctly, hair hanging could of course be very dangerous. You could lose a lot of hair. You could potentially have the hair come undone.
01:46You could fall if you're very high up. That could be extremely dangerous.
01:54And it's been really amazing to me to see like how much the body can do.
01:58And so I really try to explore that, like how much I can express with my body, how strong I can be, how flexible I can be through my acts.
