“The Shape She Makes” is Misner’s first attempt at combining dance, music, and theater in a full-evening piece. But make no mistake, this is not music theater. Though there is ...

These elements, then, become goalposts for contemporary work, mingling with speech, text, new rhythms and personal dance languages while keeping the connection to tradition and form taut and alive.

The inaugural scene of Shape on Us embodies its fundamental principles ... the dancer to playfully embrace his imbalance. Thus, dance overcomes fear and morphs into desire.