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Each one kicks up as a pointed foot, a développé to tendu.

As she glided across the stage, advancing with spins that came to sudden stops or extending a leg to the side in développé, her progression through the steps could be read as an unwavering journey, refined and forthright.

In “Aureole,” nothing is put on: The dancing begins with an overhead opening of the arms that never seems flowery or grand, but an invitation to watch the human body struggle and succeed through precarious balances that allow a free leg to unfold and extend, or développé, in space.

Usually a développé — a movement in which one raised leg unfolds into a straight line — is done on a stationary supporting leg, but Mr. Gomes twice did a développé backward into arabesque while hopping.

“So she added this giant développé whack! Clearly she’s thinking about creating for us as Rockettes but making it new and fresh.”