Kemoko Sano's engaging, high-energy dance and drum ensemble will perform to music played on the djembe, a hand drum, and the balafon.

While fans of "high-energy traditional European dances" should sign up now for the infectiously titled singing group "Knees Up Mother Brown!"

But there was very little of the fresh life that one associates with the kind of plotless, high-energy dance featured in this program of new and recent work.

Expect high-energy dance, performed to everything from soca to Bach, as the company presents a number of works from its repertory.

A troupe that lives up to its name with high-energy dance choreographed by company founder Kevin Jeff, in the first concert of the theater's fall dance season.

By the 1990's, Mr. Byrd had established himself as an innovative creator of charged, high-energy dances with social themes that often touched on racial issues.

Sleek high-energy dance with an undercurrent of humor.

Moving in long, loose chains, the dancers provide a feast of unforced, almost teasingly high-energy dance.

The merger of these two dances has formed the high-energy dance that is seen today.

The other is Brian Brooks and his Moving Company, which focuses on ways of bringing the surrounding environment into high-energy dance filled with visual imagery.