Chair Balancing is a discipline in which balancing artists use a significant number of stacked chairs, upon which they perform balancing moves at the top of the pile or stack. The chairs may be balanced on other objects and/or on just one or two of the legs. And, the chairs used in balance have notches cut out or extra pieces of material added to allow them to be stacked at otherwise unstable angles. Cirque du Soleil takes the basic function and raises it to an art form!

One by one, the chairs are raised slowly and placed ever so gently on top of each other to form a pyramid. Like a larger- than-life house of cards, the structure is so delicate, so fragile that everyone holds their breath in silence, lest the slightest gust of wind cause it to topple to the ground. Erected in the purest Chinese tradition, the pyramid is so tall that anyone who climbs to the top looks as small as a child from the ground. Suddenly, the acrobats do a flip and balance themselves upside down on their column of chairs! Wow!