Her job, as the term begins, falls into the category of simple, but not easy: convince fresh students to trust each other with their lives. To demonstrate how this begins, Whitmore, head of acrobatics at circus school Circomedia, asks her colleague: “Are you willing to be a table for me?”
She then invites me to sit on that colleague. Whitmore then calls Sophia Hall, Big Issue’s deputy digital editor, over from behind the tripod where she is filming the scene, and invites Sophia to stand on my knees, while I remain seated on her colleague.
“You’re going to try and stand up, just like stepping upstairs,” Whitmore says.
“Sure,” replies Sophia.
“Step up nice and tall, and then once you’re up, you both lean out together,” says Whitmore.
Nobody gets…
