Air Dance

Most dancers glide, but others fly. At least that's how it is with the sky-borne performers who comprise SkyDancers: Women Who Fly Through the Air, a festival of aerial dance that's been capturing cloud-inhabiting imaginations for the past five years. It isn't just the circuslike whimsy of dancers freewheeling overhead that has made the fest pack houses. Add to all the airborne fun some bungee cords, colorful scarves, trapeze swings, circus hoops, and other fanciful accoutrements, and it's enough to make even the most poker-faced dance buff's eyes go wide. Project Bandaloop provides site-specific vertical choreography, proving that rappelling is just as much an art as it is a sport, while Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions' risk-filled athleticism offer an acrobatic spectacle. The dozen or so other groups and individuals contributing to the show prove that even in tight spaces, aerial dance exceeds mere physical prowess and plunges directly into the realm of allegory and magic.
Nov. 4-11, 8 p.m., 2007