Duration: 30 minutes

Performers: 8

"Petronio amps it up with a tensile, muscular athleticism. A balletic arabesque falls into a spiral, the body skewed preposterously off balance. Jumps shoot sideways, angled arms and legs trailing. Flamboyant scissor kicks twist in midair. Heads bobble as if on ball bearings. Torsos bend into audacious curves that lead to blistering spins. It's a breathtaking stream of propulsive, virtuosic motion, yet it all feels thought out, carefully structured."

"they fall into embraces, assist one another, make gestures that hint at emotions. But always they dance, as if their lives depended on it, as if even while connections sever and structures spin apart, this world's fragments carry the DNA of wholeness.his marvelous City of Twist , begun before 9-11 but influenced by it, the piece honors the individuality of his heroic dancers..they dance alone and together in a landscape compounded by Ken Tabachnick's splendid lighting.and by Laurie Anderson's rich score; uncannily, the instruments (viola, cello, bass guitar, keyboards and percussion) make you think of voices rising from concrete and bouncing off buildings."