Bungee jumping has never held much fascination for me.
I was a big enough cissy last week in northern Norway when we went snow mobiling on a frozen fjord and everyone raced off ahead of me at speeds which would frighten Richard 'hamster' Hammond.
So the idea of hurtling off a bridge with a bit of elastic tied to my big toe and bouncing around like a hysterical rag doll is out of the question.
However, I quite like the idea of bungee dancing as seen at the Royal Court this week.
It was all rather beautiful on stage, with dancers in floaty white dresses twirling and swirling around like swans on Sefton Park lake.
Of course, like the swans, there was a lot going on below the surface - or in this case, in the wings where some roughty toughty Aussie guys were hauling on the ropes to keep the waif like dancers airborne.
The show, a joint production between Chinese and Merseyside dancers and musicians, is ging to be part of the Year of the Pig celebrations in Liverpool this weekend and I'd urge everyone to go and watch.
In my review this week I said it was just the kind of thing the Culture Company ought to be backing.
What I also wrote, and which ended up 'on the cutting room floor', was that I was pleased to hear the Culture Company HAD offered solid support in this case.
It shows what can be done not by simply parachuting in acts from the four corners of the earth, but by collaboration between Liverpool artists and those of international renown - and it's a key part of the Liverpool Commissions project which is at the heart of the Capital of Culture programme.
