Ms. Johnson's elegiac new "Untitled," a group work set to plangent music by Henryk Gorecki, was just as mysterious and almost as compelling.
The group work, set to soaring music by Hindemith and performed on a stage scattered with folding chairs, is a perfect introduction to Ms. Johnson's unusual style.
Mr. Battle's "Promenade," an urgent group work set to urgent, terrifically dancy music by John Mackey, is a high-energy workout.
Mr. Petronio has told interviewers that his big new "City of Twist," a group work set to a commissioned score by Laurie Anderson, was created in part in response to Sept. 11.
MorganScott opened with Mr. Morgan's "Stockhausen 2000: Dreams," a group work set to a score by Stockhausen that sounded, in its first moments, like thunder echoing through the gathering storm.
In "Women and Veils II," a new group work set to music by Michael Keck and Zakir Hussein, Ms. Cohen delicately withdraws one dancer and then another for solos and duets in a long, handsomely plotted but rather even-paced ritual for a community.
Ms. Hummel's Cora company will present "Sets," an evening of two new duets, and her signature "Partner Dances," a funny and poignant group work set to music by Honegger and Milhaud that speeds through the complexities of relating to others as part of a couple.
But here and even more in Mr. Swanson's new "cubic legroom," a group work set to Kodo drumming and music by Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon and John Adams, there is even more delight to be had in savoring the strangely sentient-feeling spaces between and around the moving bodies.
(Dunning) * SEAN CURRAN COMPANY (Tonight through Sunday) A sunny optimist who is familiar with the soul's dark corners, Mr. Curran will present recent and new dances, the latter including a solo that pays tribute to his Russian grandfather, a group work set to music by Ricky Ian Gordon and a duet, co-choreographed and performed with Heather Wabout-Arnold, aboutheirir long friendship.
(Jack Anderson) * SEAN CURRAN COMPANY (Tuesday through June 12) A sunny optimist who is familiar with the soul's dark corners, Mr. Curran will present recent and new dances, the latter including a solo that pays tribute to his Russian grandfather, a group work set to music by Ricky Ian Gordon, and a duet,which he and Heather Waldon-Arnold choreographed and performed about their long friendship.
