Why is there a P!nk impersonator at Boogong this year?

If you're going to be a hardcore P!nk impersonator, you need to be able to replicate her phenomenal aerial skills, right?

Absolutely, says Canberra's Sarah Duncan, who makes an occasional living impersonating the Grammy-winning global rockstar.

"I can sing and dance like P!nk's but she's famous for flying over her audiences and her aerial work," Duncan says.

"I had no option but to learn."

Duncan is now one half of aerial silks duo Valkyrie Entertainment, performing live at the annual Boogong Halloween festival in Googong this weekend. She and fellow performer Flora McDonald are pulling out the fake blood, drawing on scars and donning animal skulls for a terrifying performance that will take place on the silks, seven metres in the air.

The duo is renaming itself A Scare in the Air for the night.

But it's not their makeup and costuming that'll have kids gasping in terror at Boogong, the women reckon it'll be Duncan's challenging trick The Drop.

"I roll my legs up in the silks all the way to the top of the frame and just let go," she says. "It's one of those awful tricks where you're sure I'm going to hit the ground.

"It was a love slash hate relationship when I learnt The Drop - I really wanted to learn it but it was completely terrifying."

"I'm the more graceful one on the silks," McDonald laughs. "I'm more flexible and perform the more flowy moves."

A Scare in the Air will be joined at Boogong - which last year drew more than 12,000 Canberrans - by a series of creepy cabaret acts. Acrobats and jugglers from Canberra's Warehouse Circus and Circaholics will roam the event, along with stilt walkers from Dance Circus.

Mum and dad can try the kissing booth while kids enter the frightful fashion show or dance away at the junior disco. A creepy graveyard, food vendors and fireworks are also highlights of the event.

Boogong, Halloween at Googong, Saturday, October 27, 5pm-9pm, Rockley Oval, Googong. Free event.

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