As the flamingo puppets and their stilt-walking humans — members of the Dragon Knights performance group — enter the grounds of the Orange County Fair from their backstage area, adults pull out their ...

In 1411, the count of Namur banned the use of stilts in the Belgian city. Over the past 600 years, the elevated footwear has been used for... A Bird's-Eye History Of Walking On Stilts A couple of ...

O’Ryan McGowan-Arrowroot is wearing colorful pants that are way too long with vertical stripes and a shirt with bold horizontal stripes. His polka dot socks are mismatched. He puts on a hat made from ...

SHENGFANG, China — The once-endangered folk tradition of stilt walking has staged a dramatic comeback in China, where it is ...

When Liu Guoliang puts on his makeup and straps on his stilts, he’s participating in a Chinese tradition that’s been in existence for centuries, if not millennia. There are many different origin ...

Hundreds of people from the Karbi community, an indigenous group in Northeast India, broke a stilt-walking world record. With 721 individuals participating, they set the Guinness World Record for the ...

Stilt walker Ariana Wells participated in Staunton's Happy Birthday America parade on July 4. Wells, who recently moved to Fishersville, has been stilt walking for 10 years. The parade featured 185 ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --Members of the Karbi community in India broke a Guinness World Record when they formed a line of 721 people walking on stilts. The Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council organized the record ...