The seven acrobats vault, roll, spiral over one another in their new show, "Traces".
Making their entrance amid what seems like a blare of horns and blaze of headlights, the seven acrobats vault, roll, spiral and (I would swear) levitate over and around one another, creating the illusion that they're dodging traffic in the way you do only in your dreams.
Parkour, a made-up word, cousin to the French parcours, which means "route," is a quasi commando system of leaps, vaults, rolls, and landings designed to help a person avoid or surmount whatever lies in his path — a vocabulary, that is, to be employed in finding one's way among obstacles.
"Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll".
Our shoes' long, narrow, sharp spikes went into the track crisply, cinders flew out with each step; and once, during a quarter-mile race, a little boy playing in the pole-vault pit rolled into the first lane right in front of us.
Inside her family's vault, she saw small rolls of what looked like barbed wire, which puzzled her, until she realized they were the frames of long-gone funeral wreaths.
Bettwieser – a photographer himself – has notched up 5500 developed images (only a fraction of which have made it to the online archive so far), with a backlog of 1000 undeveloped film rolls in the vault.
Bettwieser a photographer himself has developed 5,500 images (only a fraction of which have made it to the online archive so far), with a backlog of 1,000 undeveloped film rolls in the vault.
A few years ago, the organization rolled out its NCAA Vault from years and years of March Madness.
Running full-tilt to the lip of the roof, you leap, roll to your feet and vault over air ducts before sliding to safety beneath a descending steel gate a few buildings away.
Dutch-born director George Sluizer rescued the completed rolls of film from the vault of the movie's insurance company, which became the owner of the unfinished material just days before it was due to be destroyed.
