Bite

In the Wings bring their aerial dance production Bite to the Elaine Wolf Theatre at JCC Denver on Friday, October 16. It's an aerial dance piece, so you'll be looking up as much as straight ahead, with the performers working in the air rather than just on the floor.

Bite is part of the Neustadt Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies and Music Festival—or Neustadt JAAMM—which is the broader festival the Mizel Arts and Culture Center is running right now. The festival's whole point is to bring together Jewish arts, authors, movies and music and look at them through a contemporary lens, putting new voices on the same bill as established artists. Bite fits right into that: it's a dance production presented by In the Wings, and it's one of the many things the center has lined up for the festival.

If you're not familiar with the company, In the Wings is the group behind the show, and Bite is the specific production they're bringing to the stage. It's aerial dance, which means the movement happens in the air—think silks, hoops, or other rigging—rather than just on the ground. It's a physical, visual kind of performance, so it's less about following a plot and more about watching the bodies move in space.

The show runs at 7:30 PM on Friday, October 16, at the Elaine Wolf Theatre inside JCC Denver. It's part of the Neustadt JAAMM festival, so if you're interested in the other things the Mizel Arts and Culture Center has scheduled around it, that's the name to keep in mind.