Canadian actress Nina Dobrev kicks her leg up at Burning Man in the first decade of September 2022. (Photo by nina/Instagram)

Canadian actress Nina Kamenova Dobreva, credited professionally as Nina Dobrev puts her long stems on display in the first decade of June 2023. (Photo by nina/Instagram)

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)

Australia's Nina Kennedy competes in the women's pole vault final at a Diamond League event in Florence, Italy on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Reuters)