Mr. Kinzel largely favored a spare movement palette.
Ms. Garfield's spare movement phrases, frequently interrupted, are just as sharp.
Still, Ms. Parson's spare movement, partly inspired by Pontian folk dances, can get a little routine.
The dancer and choreographer Vicky Shick's face is voluptuous, enigmatic, with a touch of old-world sadness (she was born in Hungary), providing a contrast to her spare movement.
We were therefore keen to clarify, with Charlotte, the part of her venture that she was calling the "Spare Rib movement".
If such a dialogue is filtered through a separate, commercial company, what does that mean for autonomy of the proposed Spare Rib movement?
MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY/ BEACON EVENT" At the former Nabisco plant of the Dia: Beacon, on stages set amidst large-scale contemporary art, these almost superhuman dancers perform Cunningham's spare, limpid movement phrases.
But it drew performances from its 11 Barnard dancers, augmented by a Sokolow dancer (Benjamin Cortez), that rose to the challenge of her spare, thrusting movement style, so terse and yet so filled with unspoken themes.
What resultedwas a remarkable work of tough and fragile beauty, characterized by Mr. Jasperse's spare, detailed movement, and set amid an extraordinary collaged landscape of hundreds of wire hangers and empty plastic bottles, all given an amazingly new abstract identity through Joe Levasseur's beautiful lighting.
As a dancer, her approach is never trivial: as taut as a coiled spring, she is full of tension in her spare, controlled movements, yet never unduly tense.
Mr. Brown played it with energy and clarity, qualities he also applied to his own rugged "Constellations and Toccata" (2012), a work with a spare, atmospheric opening movement that gives way to a sizzling perpetual-motion finale.
