Luisita Leers was a skillful power trapeze artist from Germany. During the 1920s and 1930s, Leers gained popularity both in European and American prestigious circuses such as the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus. As a prodigious child performer, Leers toured in Finland with her solo trapeze act in Circus Arkadia (1923), Circus International (1923) and Circus/Ensemble Olympia (1925). By the age of 16, Leers had built her artistic identity as “a maiden of power” – a strategically chosen name which appeared in the headlines of her advertisements. Unlike other female aerialists, Leers did not hide her muscles with concealing costumes, but performed in a skin-tight leotard without embellishments displaying her masculine muscularity.