Hundreds of people from the Karbi community, an indigenous group in Northeast India, broke a stilt-walking world record. With 721 individuals participating, they set the Guinness World Record for the ...

Stilt walking is taking Rio de Janeiro by storm, with young and old learning the skill. Groups are practising now to perform in the traditional festivals that take place in July and August. Marjorie ...

Thanks to a grant from Spokane Arts, a local performance troupe is reaching new heights. Since August 2011, Spokane Aerial Performance Arts has provided local instruction in the circus arts, including ...

As the flamingo puppets and their stilt-walking humans — members of the Dragon Knights performance group — enter the grounds of the Orange County Fair from their backstage area, adults pull out their ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Standing 9 feet tall, Raquel Potí regularly graces the front pages of Brazilian magazines and newspapers, and on Saturday the artist donned a lavish feathered costume and lacquered ...

O’Ryan McGowan-Arrowroot is wearing colorful pants that are way too long with vertical stripes and a shirt with bold horizontal stripes. His polka dot socks are mismatched. He puts on a hat made from ...

In 1411, the count of Namur banned the use of stilts in the Belgian city. Over the past 600 years, the elevated footwear has been used for... A Bird's-Eye History Of Walking On Stilts A couple of ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --Members of the Karbi community in India broke a Guinness World Record when they formed a line of 721 people walking on stilts. The Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council organized the record ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Shynel Brizan remembers her first Kings and Queens of Carnival competition like it was yesterday. It was 2012. She was 19 years old and still relatively new to the moko ...

Allenton Riley stands tall as he roams his Capitol Heights neighborhood. It's hard to overlook a dancing teenager 12 feet tall. Stilts double the 6-foot Riley's height as he practices in a T-shirt and ...

“Transcommunality: Laura Anderson Barbata, Collaboration Beyond Borders” at BRIC House (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted) Laura Anderson Barbata started her international ...