Berlin Metropol 1986
For the trapeze portion of the show, we had decided to hang above the band on stage instead of over the crowd, to be more connected to the guys- so had rigged a rope to climb down from top onto our trapezes. I hung them from a single scenery batten, which crossed over the stage like a curtain rod. This was a much more dangerous method than when we performed over the crowd, as trapezes could be attached to a special motorized apparatus where the tech guy just lifted us up hydraulically.
To get out into the middle of the stage from top, we had to walk a 12 inch wide wooden plank catwalk with guide wires set on either side at knee height about 40 feet out to the middle of the stage. In pitch dark.
The stage was 90 feet below.