His translation to ballet of one of Shakespeare's most uneven and intractable plays, while flawed, makes for a fine and thought-provoking entertainment, gleaming with fluent, confident dance.
Inspired by a video game, the images onstage used an especially fluent vocabulary danced by particularly fluent dancers.
In both "Concerto Six Twenty-Two" and "Dvorak Serenade" (neither helped by the overamplified sound), Mr. Lubovitch shows his facility for a fluent outpouring of dance that mixes balletic lines with quirky gestures and modern dance's weighted pull of the body toward the ground.
Ms. Barak has always been a fluent and musical dance maker, and in "Call Me Ben" she creates a host of perfectly pleasant but utterly unmemorable dances burnished with a polished Fred-and-Ginger air.
What's more, we could learn where George Balanchine picked up his tricks of the trade: at the feet of those masters Petipa and Tchaikovsky - their fluent linkage of dance and music were striking to behold here.
Remarkably, "Newark" transcends its own strangely formal atmosphere and becomes a marvelously fluent series of dances, renewing itself again and again.
Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, guesting on three tracks, is warmly romantic on tenor on the loping Tabu, agile and fluent on the Cuban dance-shuffle Bebo, and mercurial on a soprano-sax break full of north African microtonalisms on the hurtling, horn-hooting finale, Abdel.
"Hive Mind" is an impressive achievement, fluent in a range of dance styles: Ital nails spacey techno on "Floridian Void," and broken-down house music on "Israel".
Rather than building up character psychology and relationships – all the things MacMillan does best – the choreography is dominated by long stretches of academic classical dance, virtuoso and fluent enough as settings of their Tchaikovsky scores, but ultimately without point.
As she demonstrated in "The Producers," she is fluent in all styles of theatrical dance, and in "Contact" she showed a lovely gift for finding character through choreography.
