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unusual facts about Knife throwing



Queen of Knives

Set in a traveling carnival in the midst of the student protests in Birmingham, Alabama in the early 1960s, the opera tells the story of a brother and sister knife-throwing act.


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Bruce Lacey

Ken Russell made a fifteen-minute film about him called The Preservation Man (1962), which linked Lacey to Chaplin (in a Keystone Cops-style sequence) and featured some of Lacey's nightclub act (knife-throwing/robots) and a lip-synched performance of 'Sleepy Valley' which Lacey had recorded with The Alberts.

Impale

Impalement arts, a group of performing arts that includes knife throwing