Aerialist Recovering After Fall at Beverly Center
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An aerial performer in a holiday show at the Beverly Center mall remains hospitalized after falling from the third level of the shopping center.
The performer was hanging upside down from a metal hoop when she slipped. The hoop was suspended from the ceiling during the finale of "Hunky Santa and the Candy Cane Girls," a show featuring aerial performers in sparkly red outfits suspended about 80 feet up in the Beverly Center.
The 26-year-old woman fell at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday, said Shawn Lentz of the Los Angeles Fire Department. She was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in unknown condition, Lentz said.
The woman, who was not wearing a harness, managed to turn herself right side up before she fell into a video projection cube and injured her wrist and pelvis, The LA Times reported. There were no nets to break her fall.
"She's a total pro," Ray Pierce, owner of Hollywood Aerial Arts, the firm putting on the performance, told The Times. "For some reason she slipped in this one move."
Pierce said the woman had been with the company for five years and had performed around the world for 15 years, according to The Times. Performances were expected to resume next Friday.
