Gravity & Other Myths (GOM) are a South Australian arts company that has impressed the world with its acrobatic prowess since it formed in 2009. They have collaborated with choirs and orchestras for huge Festival performances, though I’ve always had a soft spot for their first Fringe hit, A Simple Space, which showcased staggering acrobatics in a bare, square arena.

Ten Thousand Hours is a return to that simplicity: there are more lighting effects and haze, and the audience looks ten times the volume of 2013, but the concepts are the same. The artistic dressing has been stripped back to eight incredibly fit and agile athletes in their gymwear, throwing each other around the stage – literally.

And it’s a fantastic hour-long performance that has the audience holding their breath between whispers of ‘no way’, loud laughter, and their huge roars of support and approval.

The group is made up of five men and three women (plus the guy on percussion, who can throw around his drumsticks just as expertly as his colleagues do with each other), and there is not a dull moment. There are walking towers three people high; women and men who bounce from ground to shoulder, sometimes upside down – it’s impossible for most to comprehend how this is achieved, but GOM make it look so natural. This isn’t a series of impressive moves – instead, a brilliantly choreographed, smooth and seamless routine that has no bumps or sudden moves. The performers’ bodies move through the air like liquid – indeed proposing that, for them at least, gravity is a myth.