The two pure-movement pieces are a big advance over the groups' last work, a full-evening theater-dance piece.

The full-evening piece takes place in a nursing home where Walter, a stroke victim with aphasia, is visited daily by his daughter Helen.

In Washington, the segment was part of a full-evening piece, "Anaphase," and the dancers wore the black suits.

They completed the full-evening piece that Ms. De Keersmaeker knew she would need for the company she intended to form.

Ms. Silverstein has described the ambitious full-evening piece as a response in part to the Iraq war.

Judicious editing would sharpen the full-evening piece and make it stronger.

Unlike most Kylian works, "One of a Kind" is a full-evening piece in three acts.

Despite the "Nutcracker" debacle, the company has been able to continue touring a new full-evening piece, "Jazz Train."

Even the corps de ballet may find it more stimulating to appear in one-act rather than full-evening pieces.

Even more, the full-evening piece is a series of images from a museum tour, brought to life.