Unsexual

Certain unrandy Pacific salmon are said never to return back up their birth rivers, but instead prefer to live out their cautious careers in unsexual but less demanding bachelorhood or spinsterhood.

Other nonballet movements — one man landing out of the blue on another man’s neck and staying there (oddly comic), or a man running backward around the stage in decelerating and decreasing circles (an absorbing minimalist effect) — become peculiar strokes of poetry. Mr. Parker gives his most striking moments to his male dancers, not least in unsexual male duets, as when one guy supports another in ballet adagio.