Airotic Opens at Coco Cabaret

The highly-anticipated season opener of Airotic at Coco Cabaret finally materialized last night. Every new, plushly upholstered club chair was filled. This show, originally from the men’s club Industry that lifted its ban on women for Airotic’s run for the past two seasons, has found a new home at Coco Cabaret. The expansive, six-meter-high stage held bodies hanging from sheer silk, hula hoops, rope, and one another – ballet in the air, performing all kinds of seemingly bone-less maneuvers with extraordinary strength and precision.

Airotic is composed of three men from Spain, Italy, and Australia and one woman from Ukraine, who danced, flew, and wound themselves around one another in a series of vignettes that included aerials, fistfuls of confetti, semi-transparent stretchy fabric, bathwater, and body paint. The lighting for this production is superb, turning two naked bodies into fluorescent-yellow paint mobile art pieces. How they cleaned up in mere minutes is a mystery!

If you love Cirque du Soleil-type aerials, beautiful, muscular bodies, visually stunning costumes that appear briefly before being discarded, agile, sensuous choreography – in the air and on the stage – then you must see Airotic Soiree. It’s why Coco Cabaret was built and why last night was standing-room-only.