Dancers to take leap of faith for mid-air performance

Dancers are set to take a leap of faith and perform while dangling from a 30-foot high landmark bridge as part of a spectacular and inclusive arts show next week.

Three professional contemporary dancers will perform atop the Twelve Arch Bridge which dominates the estuary at Ballydehob in West Cork, before jumping off and performing in mid-air suspended from aerial stilts between its vast arches.

The ambitious Bridge project for the West Cork Inclusive Dance (WCID) event on May 31 will also feature up to 40 dancers — 25 of whom have physical and intellectual disabilities — performing on a slipway nearby.