Before We Flew Like Birds We Flew Like Clouds runs Fri-Sun through April 1 at 12th Avenue Arts. Credit: BLAVKA PHOTOGRAPHY

Before We Flew Like Birds We Flew Like Clouds runs Fri-Sun through April 1 at 12th Avenue Arts.

Before We Flew Like Birds We Flew Like Clouds runs Fri-Sun through April 1 at 12th Avenue Arts. BLAVKA PHOTOGRAPHY

The child inside you will flip out at the sight of big helium balloons floating around the black box theater inside 12th Avenue Arts, where choreographer KT Niehoff and approximately seven million collaborators are staging a multimedia brainsplosion called Before We Flew Like Birds We Flew Like Clouds.

Rich Smith is The Stranger's former News Editor. He writes about politics, books, and performance. You can read his poems at www.richsmithpoetry.com