Throwback
Thursday and Maria Spelterini
During
American’s centennial, many events were held in celebration. One was performed
by Maria Spelterini, or Spelterina as she was often called. An Italian
tight-rope walker, she was born July 7, 1853 and died on October 12, 1912.
On July
8, 1876 she became the first woman to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
If this wasn’t enough, she returned four days later and did it again with peach
baskets tied to her feet. A week later, she did it yet again with a paper bag
over her head.
The
Niagara gorge became her backdrop and she walked across it with her wrists and
ankles shackled. Using the tightrope as her stage, she danced and skipped across it. She also walked across it backwards.
She was
apparently very graceful in all her performances and a local paper wrote: “…traveling the gossamer web with a graceful, confident step, which soon
allayed all apprehension of an impending disaster."
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Dance History Secret #210:
“Maria Spelterini was the first woman to walk a
tightrope across Niagara Falls.”
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Quote of the Day:
“All
serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing
― Eudora Welty, On Writing
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