sports and traditional games
ADELL By Jose Antonio GARCIA RODRIGUEZ Celedonio CAST and
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"balanced" Manuel Lahoz . Voices head these lines are often used to refer to persons performing skills on ropes or wires in the air. Both terms have a list of common synonyms that define some activities listed in paragraphs of "puppeteers" and of "gymnasts" . In the next lines write about acrobats and tightrope walkers, but could be confused with the following words: acrobat, gymnast, circus tightrope walker, puppeteer, juggler and trapeze artist.
Acrobats
Mariano Garcia published for several years a folletón in recounting the "Memoirs of a Zaragoza" picked them all high-profile events that occurred in the city during his youth. In relation to the topic at hand, recalls a company that came piculines Madrid in the summer of 1857, giving roles in the bullring. The director was Mr. Esteban Buislay, a famous acrobat after the work on the trapeze, jumping, tumbling and clowning, gymnasts who performed under his command, was a dangerous exercise and a sensational novelty then.
The job was to climb a spiral ramp, about 15 meters high on a wooden ball. The year I ran very risky Buislay back to the front rise and descent. When he was about to reach the top of the ramp, there was a deathly silence, exciting. In the end the applause thundered the square (1).
Bruil The ancient tower, called Quinta Montserrat, Zaragoza, where he was the "Great playground and establishment of horticulture ", offered every Sunday in 1884, concerts and other shows. Among the regulars, we note the actions of a company of acrobats Zaragoza in each of the three functions performed gymnastic exercises.
In 1890, after the holidays del Pilar, Plaza de Toros de Zaragoza would be the scene of another acrobatic very different role: the famous Hugo cycles, would weather and banderillearía, tricycle riding, a wild bull.
acrobatic companies toured many villages offering demonstrations of their abilities. Alberge, during the holiday San Lorenzo in 1900, the square of the Constitution of this population welcomed the exercises carried out by an acrobatic company. Other Yebra de Basa acrobats visited in 1926.
In Sástago, also during the 1884 festivities in honor of San Roque, a troupe of acrobats and tightrope walkers entertained with their varied and extremely difficult exercise public attention.
tightrope walkers
The tightrope walkers perform specific exercises acrobats, using it almost exclusively for rope, but could also relate to the walkers.
In another chapter of the series of "Memoirs of a Zaragozano," the author recalled the Fiestas del Pilar in 1864 and show that the people could witness Zaragoza, watching the rope to the famous tightrope walker Madame Salvi, considered rival Blondin (2). Madame
Salvi worked with the company Bolsi and Diaz in the Plaza de Toros and the Circus Theatre Street Sites. The City Council hired Zaragoza to give two outdoor functions, choosing the artist to verify notable bold move by the square wire of the Constitution.
Mariano Garcia commented that in his life he had seen and received more pisazos Room shortage and that it took two nights in the air crossed the French happy and plump, smiling waving at the most exposed to the immense work public at his feet.
Two decades later, the Fiestas del Pilar in 1887, said the actions of Mr. Thomas Glombi, juggler or acrobat, also known as gymnast, who also spent the rope placed high in the Plaza de la Constitution. Their behavior should not be very correct since he was fined.
Glombi Perhaps the attitude that in 1889 influenced the denial of Blondin proposition to work in the festival of Pilar in the year. However, Julio Blondin would cause a sensation in Zaragoza, crossing on a cable, the Place de la Constitution. But that really did run the name Blondin fame around the world was his father, Francisco Blondin, nicknamed "king of the air" for the bet to win through on a rope, Niagara Falls.
According to the American press, the tightrope walker Blondin ran and jumped on the rope above the famous falls, and while running as risky exercise, a steamer to go under the rope, gave him a bottle of wine which was accepted lifting and drinking for the intrepid gymnast in the blink of an eye.
The tightrope walkers of the new school, unlike the former, who had long swings with lead balls at each end, performed their exercises without swing, hands free of all constraints, some focused on their actions, merely stare at a distant point in the same plane as the rope.
in 1921 would be the grandson of Francis who, continuing the grotesque tradition of the father and grandfather, passes through the Huerta de Santa Engracia on a cable at a height of more than twenty meters.
airmen and climbers
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climbers "Puertollano" in a tower of Pilar de Zaragoza
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largest we have dealt with these bold, defying the dangers, the items in this section titled: The Montgolfier milorchas and (31/03/1996) Balloons (7 / 4 / 1996) and The climbers Puertollano (21/05/1995).
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shot from a film Tramullas
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Both activities were developed by people from the aerobatic environment, relocating their original exercises to the trapeze hanging from the balloons to the string or wind vane.
As can be seen in prints of the period, the first aerial navigators were true or piculines trapeze that hung from a trapeze
perform different tricks, as the balloon sailed to the whim of the wind.
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shot from a film Tramullas .
Both activities were developed by people from the aerobatic environment, relocating their original exercises to the trapeze hanging from the balloons to the string or wind vane.
As can be seen in prints of the period, the first aerial navigators were true or piculines trapeze that hung from a trapeze
perform different tricks, as the balloon sailed to the whim of the wind. .
The "Puertollano" between the chimneys of the sugar Avenida de Catalunya in Zaragoza
The "Puertollano" between the chimneys of the sugar Avenida de Catalunya in Zaragoza
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The "Puertollano" on tower of the church of San Miguel, Zaragoza (1929) .
Without doubt, we could also consider a risky acrobatic exercise for many young people, which was considered quaint Spain, was to climb the steeples of cathedrals in the holidays to take the flight the bells, while the bell officially rested .
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This show of young released by the space, with the bell that narrow in his arms, could be seen from the Giralda in Seville, according to William Depping (3), Victor Hugo was inspired to describe them as Quasimodo in exercise.
Citation
- "In my good times. Memories of Zaragoza." XXX. Folletón the Herald, Heraldo de Aragón , May 7, 1906. José Blasco contains the same event in his book: Zaragoza Here!, Volume I, facsimile edition, Zaragoza, 1988, p. 130.
- Mariano Garcia: "In my good times. Memoirs of a Zaragozano" XCI. Follet on of the Herald. Heraldo de Aragón , September 20, 1908.
- Depping, G.: Force and skill of man . Imprenta de Gaspar Editores, Madrid, s / f, p. 114.
Posted in Notebooks Altoaragonesa "of Altoaragón Journal, Sunday, December 15, 1996
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