highest circus performance ever?

I wish I was there, on the glass ceiling atop the CN Tower in Toronto.

Artists from Cirque du Soleil were promoting their new touring show Kooza.

But a National Post reporter was somewhat underwhelmed:

… 1:37 It’s contortion time. Three young girls dressed in full Cirque du Soleil regalia proceed to go through a four-minute routine of bending over backwards, standing on top of one another, and other eye-popping, freaks-me-out-to-watch wonders.

1:40 As far as astounding world records go, it’s all a bit anticlimactic. If one of the circus performers was to do a handstand on the top of the Tower’s needle, that would be breathtakingly awesome. This though? We’re standing on a totally secure floor inside a building. As one unnamed person would later say to me, “If I juggled in an airplane, would that set the record for highest circus act ever performed?”

1:48 I ask the publicist from Guinness what the previous record for world’s highest circus act is. It turns out there is no previous record. This is a new, first of its kind record. Guinness World Record officials will confirm it on October 3. …

National Post

(via Cirque Tribune forum – KOOZA to attempt new Guiness World Record)

Kooza – Cirque du Soleil