Private Acts: The Acrobat Sublime is a multimedia project embracing photographs, essays, and video that looks at acrobats and the acrobatic arts in an entirely new way.
In this daring collection of portraits— itself a work of visual poetry—an impromptu troupe of wildly talented acrobats and aerialists, female and male, shed their costumes to bare their true passions. Edgy, seductive, mysterious, antic, explosive, sensual, the subjects of these heart-stopping images fire our imaginations. more...
Learn more about author Harriet Heyman, photographer Acey Harper, and the team behind Private Acts, and their journey into the secret world of acrobats.
Get to know the 48 talented performers— aerialists, contortionists, hand-balancers, rope and pole artists, and more— featured in Private Acts.
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Copyright © 2011 Harriet Heyman. Photographs copyright © 2011 by Acey Harper.