• Fast-paced opening looking at space and time with lots of counter balance and precision footwork
• Male/female duet work with contrasting qualities
• Diagonal and lateral floor patterns
• Multi-use of Cannon in different forms
• Motif – directional, extensions, circling port de bras, reference to diagonals
• Repetition - movement sequences are often repeated exactly and with developments
• Relation of images and movement
• Very musical, choreography follows the stops and starts of the music
• Exploring of movement
• Contrasting speeds demonstrated through different groups but on stage at the same time
• Use of Counterbalance
• Syncopated movement and music
• Groupings of 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9 dancers (solo, duet, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, octet, and ennead)

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