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 As a female voice speaks, two dancers in matching, one-piece, pastel green and blue jumpsuits each stand between two white aerial silks suspended from the ceiling. Holding each side of the silks with their hands, they lift their left legs and wind their legs around the fabric. With their left legs extended and left feet hooked in the silk, they hold the opposite silk with both hands and begin to spin toward stage left. Using momentum, as they spin they bring their left legs in front of them and press their hips towards to sky while lifting off the ground to hang suspended and upward facing, slowly rotating.

The camera changes to focus on one dancer, a white female with brown wavy hair streaked with silver that trails behind her as she moves. She extends her right leg, bends her knee to hook her leg in front of the silk, and climbs toward the ceiling, spinning faster while twisting around the silks as she climbs until she is standing on her left leg with her right leg extended and wrapped in the silk. She controls the speed of the spin by drawing her right foot in tighter or extending it as she gathers the silk with her hands, she wraps it around her waist. With her left foot still locked into one silk, she leans back to extend her right leg up toward the ceiling to quickly snake her right foot around the taught fabric above to secure herself as she suspends upside down, reaching her arms above her head and toward the floor. The image lingers on the dancer as she hangs with arms and legs at right angles with the fabric and the floor.

She reaches for the fabric above her and begins to climb upwards. She bends her right knee as she sits up and draws her right foot behind her left knee, now standing upright, still wrapped in the fabric and facing stage right. Holding the fabric with her right hand, she taps her head beside her left eye three times and then her fingers burst open. She climbs onward, extending her left leg and wrapping the silk around her waist to turn upside down once more. She gathers the silks hanging below her into her arms.

The camera changes to a view of the entire stage. The room is black with four bright lights evenly spaced along the back wall. Four sets of white aerial silks hang from the ceiling across the stage. The dancer is entangled in the fabric farthest to stage left, suspended upside down approximately 10 feet about the ground. She releases the silks held in her arms, letting them spill to the floor. 

The camera moves to a close-up of the dancer as she unwinds herself and extends her legs into a graceful arabesque and reaching her left arm outward while holding the silk with her right. She bends her right knee to hook in front of the silk, and drops backwards, held by the silks at her waist. Rebounding upright again, she reaches up and does a quick toss to unwind her legs as she pulls herself upright. The camera pans down as she slides down the silks back to the stage as she exits and we see a second dancer standing center stage.

The camera shifts to a closeup up of a multi-racial woman with short, dark curls and large, expressive, brown eyes. She raises her right pointer finger as if to say “Just a minute”, then that same pointer finger motions twice to the right. She points her right arm straight up and left straight down then clicks her arms in opposite directions three times to indicate the ticking hands of a clock. She quickly spins around and taps her right index finger to her left wrist, indicating a watch. She turns to stage right and holds up four fingers. She brings her palms to her forehead and then flings her hands to the sides, pressing her palms outward. She spins again to face straight forward. She turns her left palm to face her and runs her right finger across her left palm as someone might when reading lines of text. Then she drops her hands and looks at the camera head on. The image lingers for an almost uncomfortable breath. Finally she clasps her hands in front of her, raises her hands, and mimics stabbing herself in the abdomen. She separates her hands and slides them across her front, then out to her sides as she falls while turning to look down at herself. She moves to the silks, wrapping them around her right wrist and opens her body while reaching out with her left arm. From that extension she leans out and falls, folding into a pike position while hanging from her right arm. She draws her knees toward her and spins rapidly, then extends her legs, slowing her turns. She removes the fabric from her wrist and sinks to the ground, wrapping the silk fabric around her like a curtain, obscuring her from view. 

When the curtain opens, we see the first dancer, seated on the floor with her legs crossed underneath her. Holding each silk with one hand, she opens her arms, then extends her legs to sit with her legs straight out in front of her. She clasps her hands together in front of her chest, then separates her hands and rests her palms on her chest. She stands, turns to stage right, and places her left hand on her left hip and her right hand on her right ribs and emphatically presses each toward her body’s centerline, twice. She lets her hand drift from hips and ribs across abdomen and chest before extending her left leg with arms unfolding to match, and then spinning as she travels toward stage left. She is draw in a beeline to the downstage right fabric, all while eyeing it, and then reaches up and begins to climb. Using both feet and hands, she climbs to the very top before extending her legs into a fanlike motion that twines the silks between her legs and folds herself sideways around the fabric. She sits up and extends her legs to move the tail of the silks from one side to the other, then tips to the side once more. She hangs suspended sideways, with one leg straight and the other tightly bent, left arm extended toward the ceiling and right arm toward the floor, holding the silks with each hand

The camera moves back to show the whole stage. The dancer dramatically lets go to tumble down the silk until it she stops hovering just over the stage. She reaches up to unwind herself and slides down to return to the stage. She turns to face the camera as the rest of the company appears from upstage to join her.