Nazca 6, and 7 include some of the earlier motifs but also emphasizes militaristic ones, suggesting a shift in social organization.
Duncan dismissed the rare early medieval motif of Paul and Anthony breaking bread in the desert as probably "founded on some Popish tradition."
In the late manifestation of the palace style, fluent and spontaneous earlier motifs stiffened and became more geometrical and abstracted.
In addition, the show's largely chronological installation plays down the frequency with which Davis circled back to retrieve and resuscitate earlier motifs.
The dancers in three concentric circles recapitulate earlier motifs and end on a note of joy.
As the ensemble reprise earlier motifs, the gray pairs merge into the communal emphatic round.
After quotations from the Taylor idiom and a recapitulation of earlier motifs, Miss Kent takes a realistic look at the touring life.
Its conclusion - a fast, compelled fugue, making much of an earlier ominous four-note motif - needed a stronger cutoff.
The show begins with early motifs common to artists and filmmakers: land and seascapes, rural genre pictures, scenes of everyday life.
An earlier motif - various dancers dropping to the floor - ends the work in a smashing unison reprise.