Not pausing for so much as a glimpse of the female acrobats, Mat threaded through the throng with Tuon on his arm, which he assured by placing her hand on his left wrist.

The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.

Male jugglers marched after, miraculously keeping suggestively painted clubs in the air without stopping their forward momentum, though each bore a female acrobat with her legs twined about his waist in mimicked intimate union.

Exotic female acrobats were also predominant throughout the show.

A marriage in 1935 to a female acrobat also ended in 1935.

After much angst, he gets his wish and is transformed into a person, ultimately pursuing a female acrobat (Solveig Dommartin) whom he has fallen in love with.

There is a saucy female acrobat, though she doesn't quite attempt the men's bounding, airborne somersaults and astonishing glides across the floor on the back, or face down and moving on the tips of fingers and toes.

Most remarkable are the upside-down female acrobats.

There, she took off the robe to reveal a white leotard and joined three female acrobats covered in glitter on suspension rigging which then lifted into the air.

Poirot pits his wits against a sneering sophisticate of a French policeman while Hastings lets his wander after an auburn-haired female acrobat.