The answer is: sort of. “The Wind-Up” begins with the dancer Daniel Ulbricht tearing onto an empty, brightly lit stage to Beethoven’s opening chords and taking us into the first theme with fluid, classically based movement. He is immediately joined by five other dancers wearing simple costumes with colorful geometric patterns, which seem to refract their bodies as they leap, slide, and somersault over one another in a disarmingly playful tangle of balletic forms which culminates in an almost architectural tableau, bodies posed low to high (selfie!). This group sequence and snapshot is an anchor—a theme that, reflecting Beethoven, reappears throughout the dance, sometimes turned sideways or at an angle.journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter