Article: HIGH ON CIRQUE DENVER DANCER PERFORMED WITH 'DRALION' TROUPE, READY TO FLY WHEN CALLED AGAIN.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

Byline: Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News

Denver native Lea Chapman had to get over her fear of heights before she could join Cirque du Soleil.

She was auditioning to replace an injured performer in the 2000 production of Dralion. Chapman, then 26, had to take her vertigo test before being hired. Sixty feet up at the massive Cirque rehearsal space in Montreal, she stood on a metal grid, trying to force herself to move.

"You can see the ground and you can see all the other artists training for different shows," Chapman remembers. "Once I stepped up there my body locked. I told myself I have to walk across this grid freehanded because I want ...

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