Elodie Katze, co-owner of Wild Pole Studio, performs a trick on a pole as students look on during a class at the pole dancing studio Wild Pole in Paris, France, on March 26, 2024. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)
In 1949, LIFE magazine sent famed photographer Nina Leen to document the daily life of a sassy troupe of young women who had run off and joined the famous Barnum & Bailey Circus in Sarasota, Fla. What developed was a portrait of a sisterhood formed over acrobatics that mixed high-flying wire acts with fashionable high-waisted shorts. Sarasota was once considered “the home of the American circus”. Here: an aerialist smoking while rehearsing for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Sarasota, FL in 1949. (Photo By Nina Leen/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
SUNRISE, FL - OCTOBER 19: Jason Grodensky (L) and Maria Rosario prepare to carry her canoe to a trash pile after it was bent in half by after a tornado hit her home on October 19, 2011 in Sunrise, Florida. The tornado hit last night and caused damage to homes in the area but there were no reports of fatalities. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)