“Making a ballet from the ground up is deep wallow in microeconomics and minutiae. Creating a three-minute pas de deux takes [choreographer Septime] Webre some five hours of studio time. … Webre has to keep to a schedule of six-hour days carved like therapy sessions into 55-minute blocks. Rehearsals have resembled nothing so much as a manic pinball game of bodies set to eight-count bars of music.”