Body Against Body (Bill T Jones/Arnie Zanes Dance Co)

Dating from early in the Jones/Zanes collaboration, the first piece explores gestures available to two male dancers without imitating the male/female duality. Lots of use of reiteration as a way to teach the observer to see and make sense of the series of gestures. The staticky score underlines the absence of a narrative, musical or otherwise, to provide coherence. The repetition of (what appears to be) random lists does more of the work than the score. The most beautiful gesture appears when the smaller dancer leaps, spread eagle, into the arms of his partner.

The second piece, with a male and epicenic female dancer, continued the exploration of new gestures not confined to romantic ballet's pas de deux.

Recommend.