“If you throw, you have to catch.” It seems like a good rule. Except Lisa Whitmore is talking about people. Her job, as the term begins, falls into the category of simple, but not easy: convince fresh students to trust each other with their lives. To demonstrate how this begins, Whitmore, head of acrobatics at circus school Circomedia , asks her colleague: “Are you willing to be a table for me?”

Greg and Sophia test their trust levels with Lisa Whitmore

She then invites me to sit on that colleague. Whitmore then calls Sophia Hall, one of Big Issue’s deputy digital editors, over from behind the tripod where she is filming the scene, and invites Sophia to stand on my knees, while I remain seated on her colleague.

“You’re going to try and stand up, just like stepping upstairs,” Whitmore

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