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'Brave Space' circus performance: A world its creator wishes was real


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Watching the dark and dystopian world of "The Handmaid's Tale" on television inspired Shayna Swanson to create its opposite: a world where women come together and lift each other up. The result is a performance show she named "Brave Space." Swanson, founder of Chicago-based Aloft Circus Arts, calls it a circus show inside of a blanket fort. It features an all-female cast of circus performers and 250 yards of fabric. "(The fabric) is on the floor and grows throughout the show to like, become this
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