'Monkey Bar' is again one of those 'kids' tricks' with which you can just as easily keep a grown-up audience on a string. Seen dangling through a small, wooden block, printed with the numbers one, two and three, are three ropes. Tie a silk to the left-hand rope and then boast that you can make the silk 'jump' ropes. For that, hold the 'Monkey Bar' a few seconds behind your back and yes ... it's true, the silk has jumped across to the right-hand rope. Repeat that a few more times; each time the silk jumps (behind your back) from the left to the right rope, and then back again. The audience soon sees through your little game - you're just turning the bar around while it's behind your back. To keep them happy you'll have to trot out something more mind-boggling still. OK, go right ahead: make the silk, in a visually stunning way, leap to the middle rope. Aha, now the theatre's gone very quiet all of a sudden! Finally, create even more astonishment by making the silk leap, in full view, back onto the left-hand rope.
A highly entertaining routine. Simple to perform.
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