"Stories of Us" features rhythmic, haunting music, performed live with songs and Vietnamese instruments, and five fluid dancers who slip in and out of an imposing three-sided courtyard with walls of colorful, neon-edged squares.
As a performer Jackson has long been the guidepost for Mr. Brown, as fluid a dancer as singer.
In 2016, a New York Times piece observed that Spears, who was "once a fluid, natural dancer... can appear stiff, robotic, today, relying on flailing arms and flashy sets".
The choreographer Nicholas Leichter employed both of these in excerpts from "Twenty Twenty," a propulsive, physical work in progress in which the astonishingly fluid young dancer Bryan Strimpel became a boy toy to the choreographer's charismatic "sugar daddy".
I wanted to find a way that was fluid and dancer-like and had the right kind of language for a ballet.
Yet her duet with Steve Humphrey, the company's wonderful senior dancer, is fluid, an inventive study in differences overcome.
A principal of New York City Ballet from 1953 to 1984, Mr. d'Amboise was an all-American dancer whose fluid partnering, exuberant style and profound classicism inspired many a George Balanchine ballet.
Ratikant Mohapatra, the guru's son and an agile if portly dancer with fluid arms, offered a solo in which he easily integrated his comic acting as the monkey Hanuman into a continuum of dancing.
In "Fluid Canvas" (2002) the dancers had a more serene austere beauty.
The movements of both dancers remained fluid and lyrical throughout the duet.
