England's DV8 Physical Theatre is typically tagged as a dance group, yet their staged works continually push beyond the aesthetics of contemporary dance and into a realm melding theater and personal politics. DV8's reputation relies on the constant reinvention of formal boundaries and their daring exploration of social relationships. As a consequence, their physically rigorous works have occasionally been the subject of controversy. Under the direction of Lloyd Newsom, fruitful energies have been spent on translating DV8's stage productions into moving-image media which are not merely documents but eventful cinematic expansions of the dance. Strange Fish (55:30 mins) is an enigmatic look at the cultural ritual of mating and the quest to escape loneliness. Alternately sarcastic and devastating, the piece moves us through the intensely private world of a woman in search of intimacy. Enter Achilles (45 mins) uses the arresting physicality of the dance as a narrative vehicle, propelling this glimpse of male bonding ever forward. The banal iconography of everyday life-a pub, eight men, billiards, loud music-becomes the backdrop for a frank exploration of masculinity and the alienation that belies its macho veneer.-Steve Seid and Corey Weinstein