And tensions were set up between the way the dancers tried to strive forward while the cords pulled them backward.

When the dancers tried to wear them, they kept getting entangled in one another's sleeves.

She thought she could sense something of what the dancers were trying to convey.

Although the company's dancers tried hard to make the guests real people, a few characterizations could be sharpened still further.

With balloons and pulleys, the dancers try to paint the family dynamics.

In several sequences at the beginning of the work, dancers crept slowly across the floor and then tried to plaster themselves against the walls.

So the dancers try alternative ways of focusing without getting too detached from one another.

"I tell dancers not to try to get laughs, to do what they do as a matter of life and death," she said.

Many former dancers, dependent on the lucrative income, are trying to stick it out in adult entertainment.

Although dancers tried to step carefully forward, the choreography kept throwing them off balance.