Mascall Dance's "White Spider" is easily one of the most out-there performance experiences that I have had this year.  The stage was equipped with a large revolving disk that was tilted on an angle and moved by a  pneumatic lift.  Climbing ropes hung from the ceiling, and on the back wall there was a contraption that looked like the ungainly offspring of a lightening rod and a basketball net (it turned out to be a dance/drawing machine).  In the second act, a three-sided ladder-like structure was also wheeled onstage for dancers to climb and tumble on. 

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