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Adagio is the performance of partneracrobalance poses and associated movements that involve stationary balances by a pair of performers. It is performed in professionalcircus, in various dance disciplines includingacro dance andballet, inpair skating, and as a hobby in university circus groups.^[1]

An adagio pair consists of one person acting as aflier and another as abase. The base remains in contact with the floor and the flier is balanced in the air. The base may move between a variety of positions including lying on the floor, crouching, standing and kneeling. The flier may be balanced on the base's feet, hands, shoulders, knees, thighs, back or combinations of these, in a variety of positions and orientations including horizontal, vertical or even upside down. In general, it is easier for the flier to be lighter and the base heavier and stronger, though this is not a requirement as equal partner weights or even an imbalance of weights in the other direction can be leveraged.

• Acrobatic gymnastics
• Acrobatics

• Cullen, Frank; Hackman, Florence; McNeilly, Donald (2007)."Adagio act".Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America. Psychology Press. p. 8.ISBN 978-0-415-93853-2.
• O'Meally, Robert G.; O'Meally, Robert (1998).The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. Columbia University Press. p. 280.ISBN 978-0-231-10448-7.
• Bollen, Jonathan (2020).Touring Variety in the Asia Pacific Region, 1946–1975. Springer Nature. pp. 98–100.ISBN 978-3-030-39411-0.

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