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On a lifted table, three feet in diameter.

Three dancers perform on top of this table.

They're really intimate with each other,

physically intimate,

being really close to each other. But they're physically intimate, being really close to each other.

But they're also telling a story. That's Matt Kent, artistic director of the dance company, Palobelis.

And the dance he's describing, like most of the work Palobolis is known for, features bodies assembling

like Voltron into elegant, complex shapes.

From a moving VW bus to an elephant wiggling its ears in time with its swishing tail.

These physical collaborations do more than create pretty pictures.

They give the dancers leverage that almost works like a superpower.

When you are lifting someone, when you're partnering, your center of gravity has changed, which means that you can jump a little bit further.

You can lean a little bit further.

You can reach out a little bit further because you're working with another person.

Speaking of working with others, Matt doesn't lead the company alone, he shares that job with his

co-artistic director, Renee Jorski.

Our physical partnering is really just the physical representation of the collaboration of the

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