across as a studied work in the best possible sense: it is not narrative rather about the relationship between the dancer and the music. Chambers' choreography is complex and exacting, and one senses that she never loses sight of her intentions during the performance. Though there is plenty of detail her work, there is no extraneous movement, no frills and no fluff. Every gesture is reasoned, weighted, and placed just where it needs to be. Talented local choreographer Justine Chambers created a mesmerizing duet for the Contingency Plan, set to the trance-y, chime-laden sounds of Oval. Called Caesura , it was about the way we take pauses in our daily lives, and found dancers Vanessa Goodman and Jane Osborne -- normally known for more comedic work -- finding a dreamy space between waking and sleeping. Their arms swung like pendulums. They looked from side to side as if they'd just been roused. And their bodies collapsed onto the floor. It was a small but entrancing study that highlighted Chambers's ability to find a signature vocabulary that's somehow loose but fractured, smooth but punctuated with stops and starts. For the final show of their fourteenth Dance Allsorts series, New Works presented a program that included a short version of a larger work that Justine A. Chambers is currently working on, along with four pieces performed by the Arts Umbrella Dance Company and its apprentices. From professional contemporary dance to more ballet based works from a pre-professional company, this was a great