Death Plunge

Gary Stewart

Associated Press

The rope holding Japanese dancer Yoshiyuki Takada breaks and he begins a six-story fall to his death before hundreds of stunned spectators in downtown Seattle during a noontime performance on Sept. 10, 1985. The performance, known as a “dance of life and death,” was to have featured four men, each lowered separately from the roof of the Mutual Life Building by ropes attached at their ankles.

Gary Stewart, "Death Plunge," in POYi Archive, Item #13634, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/13634 (accessed April 21, 2025).