The first of the three dances, “Rise,” is revived from the first dance of the 1981 "Relative Calm," whose music was commissioned from Jon Gibson. In Vienna, the dancers wear white pants and fitted white tunics with a broad black stripe down the back that echoes the broad white bars of Wilson's lighting. Three dancers in four diagonal lines begin to move along their lines in a casual, almost walking manner. Recalling Merce Cunningham, their motions became larger, a leg lifts to the front, then to the back, arms are added in second; there is a soft turn on two feet; directions change; the lines cross and return to home with the same steps, lift, lift, change of direction, soft turn. Variations enter unnoticeably and incrementally. The whole avoids clear stresses in steps or music, an evenness that belies the intense attention needed to dance variations within sameness and to continue thus for 25 minutes. In this demanding piece, the dancers Agnese Trippa, Giovanni Marino, and Nicolò Troiano especially stood out.

They turned out to be the lead dancers in the second, central work, newly choreographed for this tryptic version of “Relative Calm.” This dance is set, unusually, to music that is not commissioned and not minimalist: Stravinsky's 1922 ballet score “Pulchinella.” The costumes follow the Pulchinella period cue with stylized Renaissance accents: tights and ballet-style tunics for the men, modified stiff skirts for women, ruffled collars and built-out sleeves for all. With the costumes' stark red and black against a black backdrop of red arcs and with its newness, images from this dance are the most frequently reproduced.