Swing Shift

You can always count on Nancy Smith and her Frequent Flyers aerial dance troupe to serve holiday fare with a twist, and this year’s Swing Into the Holidaze, an up-in-the-air tribute to the swing era, follows suit: Accompanied by music that ranges from rave-ups like Louis Prima’s “Sing, Sing, Sing” to Gershwin’s aurally picturesque An American in Paris, it’s a family-friendly show that’s in constant flight, on bungies, aerial fabric, stilts, hoops, trapezes and more.

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“It’s very upbeat, but also very beautiful, and there are moments of humor, too,” Smith says of the show, which opens tonight. “It’s a good alternative to all the sticky-sweet holiday stuff out there. The blending of aerial work with the swing-era style of movement is unique, and the physicality of what my troupe does is always moving up another notch.”

Catch Swing Into the Holidaze at 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through December 20 at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder; get tickets, $15 to $23, at www.frequentflyers.org, or call 303-444-SEAT.
Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: Dec. 11. Continues through Dec. 20, 2009