Throw People,” the title of Chris Elam’s new two-part dance, can be read partly as an imperative. People are thrown and twisted into human origami and tied into three-person pretzels with only two feet on the ground. Elam’s wonderfully strange and unpredictable choreography, however, makes his dancers seem less like people than anthropomorphized beasts. The first section, filled with mock-balletic gestures, suggests the preening animals of “Fantasia.” The second, for which Andy Teirstein’s score is performed live on eclectic instruments, is rougher; its pas de deux could be between a giraffe and an orangutan. (P.S. 122, at 150 First Ave. 212-352-3101. May 11-12 at 8, May 13 at 5 and 8, and May 14 at 5.)
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