No sign identifies Ray Pierce ’s trapeze school, just the faint whine of a swing that glides back and forth, 25 feet up. The school sits in a warehouse section south of downtown Los Angeles.

The Circus Center, run by master Chinese acrobat Lu Yi, is the premier circus school in the country, currently training more than 900 students and hosting the United States' only Clown Conservatory.

A circus performer called LadyBEAST is free to practice aerial performances on the 20-foot-tall, trapeze-like, iron framework in her backyard in St. Roch, despite protests from her next-door neighbor.

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Trapeze takes advantage of the peak of each swing, when the body is weightless, to set up for tricks. For our first trick, we had to pull our legs up and hook our knees over the bar.

Ginger Meurer/Special to View Trapeze Las Vegas invited anyone to try a swing or two on the high trapeze in honor of Bob Christians Day May 1, 2016. Ginger Meurer/Special to View ...

Sophia Stalcup, 5 (left) and Meggie Young, 6, show their acrobatic skills on the triple trapeze as instructor Robin Stevens spots during the Cal Elite Kids circus arts camp.

Brothers Marco, left, and Anthony Rosamilia run their trapeze program at Eisenhower Park's Aquatic Center in East Meadow. They were circus instructors and performers at Club Med resorts in the ...

Mann has been teaching kids in trapeze camps for about 11 years at her location near Big Marine Lake. But this summer she decided that people too old to run away to join the circus deserved a camp ...

The Philadelphia School of Circus Arts is bringing back one of its most popular programs. The school will hold flying trapeze lessons for adults and children as young as six at its Circus Campus ...

Their facility is at 13087 40th St. N, in Royal Palm Beach. Aerial Trapeze Academy is also available to do performances. Visit AerialTrapezeAcademy.com or call Altbuch at 561-345-3217.

In circus-speak, flying means trapeze. It’s the first time in seven years that performers will soar, flip and grip as they swing and sail high in the air on the trapeze.