The Great Star Theater没有闻到尘土飞扬——或者更糟了。

The 410 seats at theChinatownvenue have been reupholstered. Cement walls are covered in new curtains. Emergency sprinklers, which were 50 years out of compliance, have been replaced. A new ventilation system, complete with MERV filters, has necessitated a new electrical line. There’s heat.

Before the Thursday, April 28, performance of circus-burlesque hybrid “AirOtic Soirée,” Executive Director Roger Pincombe hustled about explaining to a stagehand how to run a lighting effect from the booth, focusing a projector, hauling bags of ice for refreshments and trying to dissipate a test run of the show’s theatrical haze before audiences entered.

In short, the nearly 100-year-old venue is up and running after years of disrepair.

With an investment of less than $200,000, the Great Star is now a welcoming blend of kitsch and fancy. Two 400-pound film projectors, with thermometers to prevent overheating, greet visitors in the lobby, harking back to the venue’s history as a movie house for Shaw Brothers, the legendary Hong Kong production company. It has become the kind of place where you can dress up and buy a bottle of Champagne for more than $100 and sit at a cabaret table abutting the stage, or wash down your popcorn with a Jack and Coke, using a lap desk of sorts Pincombe hands out before the show to transform the seat next to you into an end table.

“AirOtic Soirée,” a 6-year-old touring show, aptly represents the kind of eclectic programming Pincombe has brought to the space since reopening in June, a mix of festivals for the Chinatown community as well as magic shows, ballets, Chinese opera, film screenings and more.

而其他马戏团会为无性繁殖的振动器e in pursuit of attracting families, the performers in “AirOtic” are candid and creative with the fact that aerial stunts and body contortions can be erotic. Here, costumes are less leotards than body stockings, frequently with cutouts for butt cheeks. Yet sex appeal here doesn’t come just from naked flesh flipping and bending over. It’s in the way two feet touch, in the way two knees curl around each other. It’s how, when Emiliano Simeoni and Nahuel Broin do a set of eyeball-vein-bursting splits in the air, they resemble the wings of a dragonfly.

One special strength of “AirOtic Soirée” is the way its acts flow seamlessly between opposite-sex and same-sex pairings, suggesting a continuum of sexiness and sexuality rather than mandating what it has to look like from the male gaze.

You might be gobsmacked at curtain call to learn that just five performers have the range and endurance to accomplish an hour’s worth of acts. Giulia Serra does handstands on Mattia Rossi Ruggeri’s quivering arms; later, the pair stage a pas de deux in a bathtub filled with water, somehow performing balancing stunts on its rim without slipping.

In one act, Gabrielle Bryana uses her leg and foot as fluidly and expressively as if it was her arm and hand; in another, if you thought performing in platform heels was hard, she heroically pulls off her contortion number even after a shoe’s laces come undone, the heel teetering on her foot.

Some acts are more straight-up burlesque, as when an apparently naked trio do a striptease from inside what look like three giant condoms with sheer fabric. In another segment, glow-in-the-dark paint gives a naked mud bath a freaky air. There’s no breast handprint quite like a neon breast handprint dripping on purple-turquoise skin under a black light.

The evening’s audience couldn’t quite tell at first if they were allowed to whoop, but they, like the newly renovated Great Star, quickly came into their own.

M“AirOtic Soirée”:Directed by Stephane Haffner. Through June 12. One hour, 20 minutes. $40-$135. Great Star Theater, 636 Jackson St., S.F.feverup.com/m/112669