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Jay O. Sanders, her husband, is another dramatic funambulist who has appeared in all 12 plays.

She’s not quite a funambulist — yet — but the balance of strength, challenge and concentration has her hooked.

Philippe’s mentor is an irascible Czech funambulist played, as an irascible Czech funambulist in a movie of this kind must be played, by Ben Kingsley.

Many of his daredevil acts have been inspired by his fellow funambulist family members, and carrying on his family tradition has earned him 9 Guinness World Records and made him a household name.

Spalding had spent more than thirty years on “the slippery slope,” as he called it, as a high-wire performer, a funambulist, and had never fallen off.