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Afterward, artistic director Sandi Croft, a former backup dancer for Celine Dion, sits me down in a back room for a performance evaluation. "You have to be fearless and courageous, and you were. Athletic? No. Strength and acrobatics? No. You're a very good floater. And you have good artistic expression," she says.
It's too late for me to join the circus. It's probably been too late since I was about 3. But between the closeups in the movie and in real life, I got to see how both tediously technical and thrillingly liberating it is to fly. I was so inspired that I've vowed, by springtime, to touch my toes.