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The title “Euphotic” refers to the layer of a body of water that receives sufficient sunlight for photosynthesis.

“Euphotic,” like “Viscera,” is large-scale and insistently heterosexual: it has three lead couples, four supporting couples, and a corps of 10 women and 4 men.

A central problem is that, like “Viscera,” “Euphotic” depends on overpartnering, with women being continually and meaninglessly manipulated by men.

Mr. Scarlett has been trying very different idioms in his recent work with the Royal Ballet, so it’s disappointing that “Euphotic” is stylistically close to the ballet he made last year for these Miami dancers, “Viscera,” and musically even closer.

“Viscera” was set to Lowell Liebermann’s first piano concerto; “Euphotic” is to his second.