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Such is the power of Martha Redbone when she closes her eyes, raises her hands, and delivers a spine-tingling belt.

With their first folk album, Wood Works, the Danish String Quartet set themselves apart from most cases of classical-musicians-going-folky. 

The Danish String Quartet captured this in an ideal and revelatory way—the profound intellectual and emotional intensity of Beethoven conveyed in a vessel of beautiful simplicity.

In high demand by both audiences and presenters throughout the classical music domain for their uncommonly unified sound and extraordinary musical versatility, the Danish String Quartet returns to the United States

Jones’s Analogy trilogy has focused  on tales conspicuously situated toward the edges. After preserving the story of a Holocaust survivor in Analogy/Dora and a troubled inner-city black youth in Analogy/Lance, Jones reminds us again of just how fragile the history of a stigmatized minority is.

To Jones, dance is not, and cannot be, wholly abstract; it is influenced by the histories and stories of the people who make and perform it, the conditions in which it is made, and the larger world that surrounds it. Thus, for him, dance is theatre, not just movement.

Memory is an inexhaustible part of dance where historical works were carefully passed down through an established oral tradition. Mr. Jones will take that further in “Analogy/​Dora: Tramontane,” embracing memory as a valuable part of both life and art.

The work is inspired in part by the writings of the German author WG Sebald,  which follows the lives of four German Jewish characters who scatter to the winds after the war, and hinges on questions of memory, loss and exile. So, too, the Trilogy.

As usual, Mr. Jones’s current crew of dancers is diverse, attractive, strong and supple. They shine in brief solos, same-sex duets of fraught tenderness and multiple struts down the catwalk, sharing the credit for choreography with Mr. Jones and Ms. Wong. 

It’s a story of one body reconciling two selves, and of one family member trying to know another.