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Between Sand and Stars
 "Between Sand and Stars" is a collaboration between Sandglass Theater, Nimble Arts, and Rob Mermin of Cirkus Smirkus. Initially inspired by the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (the writer of "The Little Prince" and other novels) and by the music of Mozart, this innovative work combines Sandglass' renowned puppets with breathtaking aerial acts and flying trapeze. A mail pilot crashes in the Sahara and finds himself struggling to survive as he hopes for rescue. Even as he lies, struggling with thirst, he reflects on the richness of his life and his love of the desert. The pilot understands the risky act of flying as a metaphor for those lives which take the daring jump into the unknown, including the poets, the astronomers, the great musicians and artists - all those, in fact, who do not settle for a merely material life. In "Between Sand and Stars," the artists of Sandglass and Nimble Arts combine their art forms and their unique spatial relationship to offer a dynamic picture of the human who reaches upward for an ideal, daring to crash, but aspiring to fly on the wings of music and poetry, of philosophy and science, of nature and technology. The world of "Between Sand and Stars" is a world of desert men on their camels, of crusty bureaucrats stamping flight papers, and of a mysterious figure of Mozart who weaves his way in and out of the pilot's vision, beyond the bonds of real time and space.Conceived by Eric Bass and Rob Mermin
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