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Jules Leotard, the original "daring young man on the flying trapeze" designed the original leotard. Hear about his accomplishments on this Chrysti the Wordsmith installation.
Chrysti the Wordsmith" two-minute modules are produced at KGLT Montana
State University- Bozeman, and broadcast in Montana and Wyoming on
Yellowstone Public Radio and Montana Public Radio, and internationally
on the Armed Forces Radio and TV Network.
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Jules Leotard, the original "daring young man on the flying trapeze" designed the original leotard. Hear about his accomplishments on this Chrysti the Wordsmith installation. Chrysti the Wordsmith" two-minute modules are produced at KGLT Montana State University- Bozeman, and broadcast in Montana and Wyoming on Yellowstone Public Radio and Montana Public Radio, and internationally on the Armed Forces Radio and TV Network.
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Chrysti the Wordsmith" two-minute modules are produced at KGLT Montana
State University- Bozeman, and broadcast in Montana and Wyoming on
Yellowstone Public Radio and Montana Public Radio, and internationally
on the Armed Forces Radio and TV Network.
Transcript
Leotard
“Do you want to be adored by the ladies?...instead of draping yourself in unflattering clothes…put on a more natural garb, which does not hide your best features.”
This sartorial suggestion is included in the 19th century memoir of France’s most famous trapeze artist. This high-flying Frenchman, who—incidentally--invented the trapeze, performed before delighted circus audiences in Paris and London during the 1850s and 60s, dazzling crowds with his spectacular aerial somersaults.
Our French acrobat’s memoir hints that he was destined for the circus life, since, as he claims, his infant cries were silenced only when he was hung upside-down from a horizontal bar. Later in life, he would be the inspiration for the popular novelty song “That Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze,” written in 1860.
The Daring Young Man was so serious about his appea...
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