Against this hybrid of metal and pop, the three idols of Babymetal dance in configurations that resemble American cheerleaders.
Its lively animal and human images depict a buffalo hunt and a wolf dance in colorful configurations designed to appeal to tourists.
8 p.m., Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer Street, between Houston and Prince Streets, (212) 334-7479; $15. (Dunning) CONFIGURATION DANCE (Monday) A Cape Cod company presents works by Joseph Cipolla (co-director of the group with Catherine Batcheller, Graham Lustig, Harrison McEldowney and Michael Shannonn.
Spinning, magnetic fluctuations, waves of wave configurations that dance between the poles off sound and bind my world to soul…".
PLENA LIBRE Leading the movement to revive the African-influenced, century-old Puerto Rican dance rhythms and instrumental configuration called plena, this band radiates conviction in its driving orchestral arrangements; an album like "Mas Libre," its sixth, is both post- and pre-salsa.
In the future it should be possible to study mechanisms of dance communication, especially the configuration of dance language, by tracking bees' behavior after they are stimulated by various synthetic dance sounds.
As they trotted for their lives, skimpily dressed in Hollywood red, this select bunch from around the world (the fashionable configuration of elite dance companies everywhere) knew they had triumphed.
But they have attracted interest from the Joyce Theater, the Chelsea-based home of contemporary dance, in becoming involved in the project, which in one configuration would include a 2,200-seat 2,200-seate foperaself, a 900-seat dance space and possibly a museum.
But as stories pour out like Delilah's milk, I hear the configurations aren't as in sync as the quartets on the dance floor.
Configuration settings involve tempo adjustment, the number of steps in one dance figure, the number of cycles to perform to train a model, etc.
