This acrobatic art installation is utterly hypnotic

"The Mechanics of History" by Yoann Bourgeois is a marvellously simple idea perfectly executed: acrobats climb stairs around a revolving trampoline, falling languidly from the stairs in rhythm.

Here it is in daylight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0dKSZMF2s

Below is an earlier exploration of the theme titled "Fugue/Trampoline":

Accompanied by Philip Glasss moody Metamorphosis Two performed by Brisa on the harp, Fugue/Trampoline and its iterations, is perhaps what Bourgeois is most famous for. Using a nine-step staircase and a trampoline, Bourgeois resists and submits to gravity, creating a breathtaking, balletic spectacle. Beginning with a limp, careless-looking slump of his body onto the trampoline, Bourgeois body bounds back up to the wooden platform with the softest elegance. He repeats the exercise, embracing gravity with different strokes, hurtling, spinning or curling into a fall. When returning to the platform or a step, he always lands on his feet, more often than not regaining his vertical balance with a single foot, or just his toes. At BAM he wore an unzipped cardigan which spiraled around his body, tracing the centrifugal motion and amplifying the visual sense of flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF5MhpvKzuw

Yoann Bourgeois "La mcanique de l'histoire" (Energie) - Le Panthon Paris (YouTube / a music lover in Paris)