Sunday May 19, 2013




Daredevils jump off, dance across, and tumble through London landmarks to mark Olympic Games


Extreme dancers perform, hanging from the Millennium Bridge in London during London 2012 Olympic Festival, Sunday, July 15, 2012. The performance "Surprises :Streb," choreographed by New Yorker Elizabeth Streb, takes place on various London's landmarks. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

LONDON - Daredevil dancers have sky-walked, bungee-jumped, and tumbled across some of the British capital's best-known landmarks ahead of the Olympic Games.

The performance — called "Surprises: Streb" — saw red-suited acrobats bounce up and down like yo-yos from London's futuristic Millennium Bridge, while others walked across the roof of London's glass-domed city hall.

At the 17th-century stone column known as The Monument, performers spun around in what appeared to be a giant hamster wheel.

And at Trafalgar Square, a group of dancers wowed tourists with delicate manoeuvrs on a gently rotating ladder.

Sunday's eye-catching series of events is part of London's Cultural Olympiad, a celebration of film, music, theatre and other art which is coinciding with the games due to begin July 27.


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