Adorlee is also founder and artistic director of a film production company specializing in visuals for dance, and this was evident at the premiere of the complete “Blooming Flowers and the Full Moon.” Three tall panels bore vivid video street scenes from Taiwan, and the opening’s simulated rain even fell onto the performance floor with projected droplets and puddles. (Lighting design by Thomas Bowersox and 3D design by Mark Johns.)

But if the full-length expansion of “Blooming Flowers and the Full Moon” was visually impressive, it was also entirely literal. (OK, the time-lapse blooming flowers projected before the central duet weren’t literal, but they were cliché.) This seems to me a bane of West Coast dance at the moment, this trend of telling literal stories rather than using the literal as a springboard to odd images and archetypes. If you’re going to tell a literal life story in dance, you need to shape it with some of the skill of a literary artist. The attendees leaving the theater seemed to share my bafflement at the flatness. As one friend said to the other of Adorlee, “She chose a strange part of the story to tell.”