If you’ve seen a few Cirque du Soleil productions — or any circus, really — then the acts in Yuletide Factory won’t seem particularly revelatory.

But Cirque Mechanics’ new show, now at The New Victory Theater, relocates Soleil’s spectacle to more of a dance-theater setting. It looks homelier, homemade and intimate, rooted in the corporeal movements of the body, without Soleil’s outsized pyrotechnics.

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Robert O’Hara has called theater a safe space to feel unsafe.

Well, Yuletide Factory’s ladder-spinning is as unsafe as I’ve ever felt in a theater.