The equilibrism or practical of the balance is a discipline of the performing arts used primarily in Cirque, but also in Danse, Gymnastique, in certain sports (Cyclisme, Slackline and all the sliding sports).

It gathers:

• balances of the body alone:
• on its legs (in much of sports)
• on the Finger S of the hands (Musculation) and of the feet (Points in dance),
• on the Hand S: tended support reversed in gymnastics, to go on the hands, balances on an arm,…;
• on the front armlever, the elbow S or the head (in Breakdance for example);

• balances on objects with the circus:

• the wire: wire, Tightrope, the cord (see also Funambulist);
• the ball: it is about a large ball which can vary from with several meters in diameter on laquel one goes;
• the trapezoid;
• the fabric;
• the stilt S;
• the Monocycle, the giraffe and the ultimate Wheel;
• the free scale;
• the pole;
• the Chair (see Henry' S);
• the Bicycle;
• glasses;
• the rola-bola (rolla-bolla?) or American roller: it is about a plank of wood laid out on a cylinder on which it is necessary to hold.