The instructor Stephen Pier guided the dancers through choreographic tasks.
Hard-core dancegoers often want to be challenged, to be made to think about movement and its meaning in a new way, or they want to appreciate the rigor of a choreographic concept or a physical task.
A choreographic take on climate change?
Mr. Le Roy is very thin and tall, with a wingspan several inches longer than his body; he has an impressive corpus with which to think, and in "Product of Circumstances" he repeatedly underscores the relationship of scientific and choreographic research, shifting between statistical analysis and physical tasks.
What struck me most about "Satisfyin' Lover" and the second piece, "State" (1968), in which this same assortment of pedestrians now stands in a huddle, shifting positions en masse a few times, was the quality of focused calm and stillness: no smartphones, no multitasking, just walking and then standing up, gloriously simple tasks, which on their own offer myriad choreographic possibilities.
"Echoes," by the Vietnamese choreographer Thang Dao, came the closest to choreographic magic.
Instead their immediate task will be something more gratifying: weeding through nonstudent choreographic submissions.
"There is no doubt that I am right on the fringes of the choreographic field — and I would say field, not dance — but my task is to see where I can enlarge that terrain while remaining within it".
Working with a collection of task-based, discrete scores that employed musical and choreographic structures, Ms. Halprin and Mr. Subotnick created a dance meant to be reconfigured, depending on the whims of its makers and the particularities of a given theater.
His performance had choreographic sweep.
