Suitably, most of the video takes place "on the floor" and Lopez's somewhat trite lyrical pattern punctuates each line with the song title: "If you're a party freak then step on the floor, if you're animal animal then tear up the floor, break the sweat on the floor, yeah we work on the floor".
The lyrical emotion patterns that I discovered were very exciting and cried out to be turned into a performance.
Why, when we're driven to be lyrical, are we gratified by familiar patterns, formal patterns made by breaking words into syllables, structural patterns made by conjoining words with other words?
At first, they sound like musical and lyrical streams of consciousness, but patterns emerge.
A slow central section, ushered in by measured timpani throbs, is notable for filigree steel-drum patterns against a lyrical viola solo, before the exuberance returns, this time over a big chorale that makes its way through the orchestra.
More than anyone, he has fused dancing and skating into a seamless whole, as seen again in the lyrical flow and beautiful contrapuntal patterns of "Sunrise," this show's opening group piece.
"Magritte, Magritte" was based upon the Surrealist fantasies of the painter, "Odes" was filled with swirling movement patterns and "Poem" was lyrical.
"There are circles you remember and circles you forget," begins a prose poem in Bryce Milligan's extraordinary new collection, Take to the Highway: Arabesques for Travelers (West End Press), setting out "patterns beneath patterns" in a lyrical tour de force across interior and exterior landscapes.
As always, they take shape and inspiration from their scores, and reflect the range of his eclectic taste – a lyrical setting of Beethoven, a dazzle of intricately patterned dance to Weber, and a jokey piece of Americana to Samuel Barber.
The lyrical male trio, moving in and out of shifting patterns, yields to two duets that are the work's highlight: one for Ms. Tuttle and Mr. Selya and one for Ms. Parkinson and Mr. Roberts that is amazing in its acrobatic convolutions.
