A trapeze artist views her life — and death — from an unexpected vantage point: the ground

Lying motionless inside a CAT machine scanning for signs of cancer, Shana Carroll’s brain began to fidget.“I’ve had so many procedures where you’re inside machines and you just feel like, what science fiction weird thing is going on here?” said Carroll, a writer, director and choreographer.What if, the former trapeze artist thought, a show could be fashioned, knitted together, from the moments in life when a person is lying flat and looking up at the world? Acrobat Anna Kichtchenko rehearses a…
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