For all its deliberate simplicity, "Dandelion Wine" has some novel ideas about movement.
In the two-part "Primo Toccare" ("First Touch") he constructs a piece that seems built on a visual aesthetic rather than ideas about movement or structure.
But his work with his own company, Random Dance, is no less interesting, and it's where Mr. McGregor has often explored scientific ideas about movement and memory that intrigue him.
Although not a professional dancer, I am one of the thousands of students who were profoundly touched by Merce's ideas about movement — that everyday movement can be transformed into something spectacular.
But if you get the chance to talk more closely with Allien about her art, her strong political opinions will immediately come into focus, in addition to her ideas about movement and nostalgia.
That kind of transference and connection is a very poetic way of saying something that I think the doctor's given his life to understanding: how an idea about movement can actually be felt.
She added: "It's about movement.
"Growing up, and developing, are really ideas about individuals, not movements," said George Chauncey, a historian who directs the University of Chicago's lesbian and gay studies project.
This pure (in the sense of unqualified) oppositionism emerged in the 1990s, and it is now pervasive among members of ostensibly Leninist parties – victims of a deadening incapacity to think realistically about the world as it is, and a cramped and dishonest unwillingness to rethink, let alone abandon, their "progressive" ideas about third-world movements.
The two pieces on show, made in collaboration with the visual artist and architect Daniel Arsham, explore ideas about architecture and movement: in "Recess," the two artists pose a series of questions while dancers perform movement phrases.
