I've been to a few of these cirque shows over the last decade or so, and I always wonder how there's never any injuries or even deaths in some of those stunts. I guess these accidents happen after all.

I actually went to this show a few weeks back and was wondering how unsafe it really was. One of the performers slipped and almost fell, he recovered and the show went on, but the feeling of imminent danger was constantly there throughout the show. It just felt that no matter how good they were at their job, a million things could be responsible for them loosing control and falling. I guess that feeling was right, weeks later I'm reading about it on the news.