Viktor Černický reminisces about his childhood experiences of biking down a mountain at top speed. By the time he completes his story, he is lying down in reverie on the treadmill, which suddenly starts up and carries him off the edge. Later he develops his story into a heart-stopping bicycle act on that same treadmill. He first strains to balance in place on the bike. Then he bikes forward and backward—with one arm, with no arms. Finally he keeps riding while chasing, lifting, and tossing a cute girl who has run by. Černický pulls off the action with the playful innocence of the child he has remembered for us.

Dora Sulženko Hoštová recalls hours of fun spent in her grandmother’s closet trying on her collection of dresses. Costumed in an old-fashioned white dress with a multilayered chiffon skirt, Hoštová steps onto the treadmill as sunflower seeds pour onto the moving platform. Dancing her memories of enchantment with leaps, spins, and falls, she kicks up the seeds as if tripping over loose pearls from a broken necklace. Completing the scene of sweet nostalgia is the old-world flavor of an emotive tango that the live musicians play.

The show’s lone acrobat, Ethan Law, pulls out the stops in an amazingly skilled and beautiful Cyr Wheel number. Raising the stakes by stages, he first manipulates the hoop by spinning it around the treadmill. Then he enters the hoop, shifting position on the gleaming circular rim to which he clings as it spins. Finally he places the hoop on the end of the treadmill. It looks like a beckoning entranceway. He steps into the circle as the belt moves them both into more thrilling possibilities. In an elegant homage to his partner the Cyr Wheel, Law jumps off the treadmill, leaving the giant wheel to finish the act—spinning alone.