“…dancers using their bodies as brushes to enact something resembling living calligraphy…. the work began as a spotlight was beamed on a tripod. One by one, dancers appeared, hazily mirroring the tripod’s shape in an assortment of conventional moving-sculpture formations. With scissor-swift legs they traversed the stage, some painting black curlicue designs, as another group inched backward, linked together like a giant caterpillar.”

Credit: Jessica Harris of Shen Wei Dance Arts in “Connect Transfer II.” Credit Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times