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Right now, New York's "downtown" dance shows no engulfing trends, as it did in the nineteen-sixties and seventies (conceptualism and politics), or in the eighties and nineties (irony and politics). Nevertheless, there is a busy little nest of choreographers who might be called surrealists. Actually, we've had surrealists for a while. Pilobolus, founded in the seventies, falls under that heading, as does Martha Clarke, who started out with Pilobolus. Pina Bausch abetted the tendency when her company started touring here in the eighties. But these companies' shows, however committed to the heart's madness, were still quite accessible. You could tell what the dancers were ...