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In this era of high technique and low irony, there is something to be said for artlessness. Programs on Saturday by Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet and Dance China NY, though different in tone and nature, communicated their choreographers’ quiet visions of dance that blooms where it is planted. The performers of Dance China NY, which presented “Autumn Moon” in the afternoon at the TriBeCa Performing Arts Center at Borough of Manhattan Community College, looked much more worldly-wise than the choreography, ably meeting its demands for expertise in Chinese traditional and Western modern dance and acrobatics. The company director Jiang Qi’s new “Reverie of Baoyu,” a clearly told story of love and treachery drawn from “The Dream of the Red Chamber,” featured vivid performances by Hangdong Xu as the hero, Lei Zhou and Bei Zheng as the women who love him and, most of all, Jiangzi Zhao as his best friend. A suite of three shorter pieces tried to capture the sense of seasons and their changes. Four dancers were ripening fruit and falling leaves in Dai Jian’s new “Autumn’s Passing, Winter’s Arrival,&rdquo followed by a slow-traveling moon (Tian Shuai) in Mr. Qi’s new “Moonlight,” and ending with a charming evocation of the life cycle in Mr. Qi’s “Some Seasons.” The program also included traditional dances by Zhiqiang Wang. |