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"Salt on Our Skin," choreographed by Alan Danielson and set to vocal music from South Africa, Europe and the Middle East, deals with shifting physical, intellectual and emotional perspectives.
Mr. Mao's 12-member modern-dance troupe will present a program of his work that features the world premiere of "Black Madrigal," set to vocal music by the Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel.
8, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place, at Washington Square South, Greenwich Village, (212) 545-7536 or worldmusicinstitute.org; $35 and $45; students, $15. (Jennifer Dunning) JANE COMFORT AND COMPANY (Tonight through Sunday) Ms. Comfort's new "Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3 a.m". is set to vocal music by Joan La Barbara.
The melancholy "Stabat Mater" was set to a vocal piece by that 18th century composer.
William Forsythe's first work, "Urlicht," was a lyrical, on-point pas de deux, set to a vocal section of Mahler's Second Symphony, full of sustained tension and sculptural fluidity.
In this first of two programs, Ms. Fenley will present her new "Lava Field," with music by John Bischoff, and two recent pieces, "Kuro Shio," which fuses Chinese and Western sensibilities to music by Bun-Ching Lam, and "Water Courses," set to a vocal composition by the poet Joy Harjo.
Alternating between the insect's sounds, a human voice repeating the word "cicada," and a jazzy tune set to clicking vocal and instrumental percussion, the soundtrack brings the installation to life, lending the paintings a certain musicality they wouldn't otherwise possess.
Each blue whale population has a distinct tempo and tone set to its vocals.
As a student, she began by setting poetry to vocal music, but Heininen urged her to abandon the texts.
Voices can occasionally sound a touch dislocated from the onscreen action, too, and I found I needed to boost the voice channel when using the virtual surround audio setting to stop vocal tracks getting a little muddled in the mix.
Best of all was Ms. Pulvermacher's "Blue," a solo set to eerie taped vocals by Tami Stronach to Schubert's familiar piano impromptu.
