1.   Next to him, the other dancers seemed like nonentities.

2.   The svelte dancer seemed to float across the stage.

3.   As the music heats up, the dancers seem to twirl faster and faster, becoming a blur of color.

4.   At times, the dancers seem to drown in the music, although it was conducted excellently by Maurice Kaplow.

5.   But the dancers seldom seemed involved in any specific sort of ritual, and the work as a whole was sentimental rather than inspiring.

6.   In at least one image in the McNay show, though, the dancer seemed to play to the camera.

7.   Inevitably, there are moments when the current dancers seem almost too savvy and a little distant from the work.

8.   Line dancers seem to feel that way as well.

9.   The dancers seem colleagues one moment, competitors the next, and the movements shift unexpectedly between tightness and looseness.

10.   The dancers seem to have slipped off ancient Greek vases, in part because of their costumes, painted body stockings by Angelina Avallone and headpieces by Eric Winterling.