Two more lines will be anchored to the ground on either side of the audience, so the dancers can fly directly overhead, hundreds of feet in front of the silos.
Past them, galaxies flamed and flowed, and the dancers, half-naked in spangles and loose veils, flew on the star-streams, soaring like exotic birds.
Hanging above the stage enmeshed in netting, hovering on movable blocks, his dancers don't quite fly.
Part skip, part stag leap with knee bent up and other leg extended, this motor motif expands into larger jumps that send the dancers flying across the stage.
Mr. Flatley said that dancers too shocked to continue would fly back to Britain and be replaced.
The dancers fly, dive and dangle in new and recent pieces.
The dancers fly, dive and dangle in new and recent pieces, in this closing weekend of the company's fall season.
A dancer usually flies in the day before the performance and has limited opportunity to rehearse.
When the dancers fly out, wires attached to waists, the effect here is also unexpected.
He operates the ropes, pulleys and harnesses that let dancers and other performers fly.