In "Circle of Fifths," Philip Glass's "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra" impelled Mr. d'Amboise into exuberant movement imagery and streamlined cool.

The whole is defined by typical Tharp speed that packs each phrase with unexpected dramatic and movement imagery.

In short, he does what he pleases and when the movement imagery works on its own formal terms, he gets away with his own rules.

Nonetheless, Sunday night's performance was marked by daring physicality - movement imagery that is expressive without being literal and that achieves its power through the dancers' outbursts of energy.

Yet it was a disappointing evening, amorphous in its movement imagery and rambling in tone.

Accompanied by an onstage pianist, Paul Sullivan, the dancers tend mainly to illustrate the spoken text in movement imagery, albeit within a recognizable Pilobolus style.

Mr. Morrow has an impressive fluency in his movement imagery and he knows the impact of surprise - as in this little drama between faunlike creatures.

The title has changed from "Diary of a Fly," but the clever movement imagery that made Mr. Tosti a human fly flattened against a brick wall is still there.

It is rooted in a fantasy approach to movement imagery that one rarely sees nowadays.

While it has a plotless veneer, the movement imagery has hints of dramatic quality and of relationships.