For a company where dangling precariously from a thread is the name of the game, the spare change will be a small boon, says Smith: She's using the extra money from her Kickstarter campaign, which ends tomorrow, to help cover rehearsal pay for her aerial dance performers.
Cirque de Minuet pitches its tent tonight at 7:45 p.m. at The Dairy Center for The Performing Arts, 2590 Walnut Street in Boulder, with another show Saturday night and a matinee on Sunday at 3:45 p.m., then another round of shows next weekend. Tickets start at $20.
"The piece is inspired by Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus," Smith says. "It's not a representation of the book, but I was inspired by it."