The Flying Wallendas
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Circus Arts / Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018 July 08
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0708_Circus_Arts_Circus_Science_0005
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Alessandro Wallenda; Tino Wallenda; Alida Wallenda; Amelia Wallenda; Ysabella Wallende Cortes; Robinson Cortes The Wallenda Family Troupe has been part of circus heritage since the 1830s, when they traveled through villages in the Austro-Hungarian Empire performing as acrobats, aerialists, clowns, and jugglers. In the late nineteenth century, they specialized in flying trapeze, but made wire-walking their enduring family tradition under the guidance of Karl Wallenda (1905 "1978). Dubbed The Flying Wallendas,  the family is known for performing daring high-wire acts, including a gigantic seven-person-pyramid, without a safety net. Participating family members include sixth-generation Tino Wallenda; seventh-generation Olinka, Alida, Aurelia, and Alessandro Wallenda; eighth-generation Ysabella Wallenda Cortes, Lucas Cortes, Tomas Cortes, and Marcus Kolacsar; and Robinson Cortes and Claire Kuciejczyk-Kernan Wallenda-ZoppÃ©.