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Risley (circus act)
A Risley or Risley act (also antipode or antipodism) is any circus acrobalance posture where the base is lying down on their back, supporting one or more flyers with their hands, feet and/or other parts of the body; spinning a person or object using only one's feet.
The act is named after Richard Risley Carlisle (1814–1874) who developed this kind of act in the United States.
Risleys can be separated into three general categories of skills:
- Skills that are based with the hands
- Skills that are based with the feet
- Other
Risley
Risley may refer to:
a building:
- Risley Residential College, connected with Cornell University
- Risley Hall (Derbyshire, England), a hotel and spa in Derbyshire
- John Risley Hall at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- ROF Risley, a former munitions factory near Warrington, England
- Colored Memorial School and Risley High School
a place in England:
- Risley, Derbyshire
- Risley, Warrington with Risley Prison
other uses:
- Risley (circus act), a circus act, and a form of acrobalance
Usage examples of "risley".
At last the train ran into the station of Brindisi, and Jack hung half out of the window, his eyes searching the crowd for Risley, to whom he had telegraphed his time of arrival.