“Carousal,” commissioned by the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, was designed for the small stage of the Ted Shawn Theatre. The space was divided into a shifting arrangement of three rings of varying sizes, sometimes demarcated with foam tubing on the floor. A series of simultaneous “acts” took place in these rings, many featuring circus-like activities such as tightrope walking, tumbling, rope climbing, and a tongue-in-cheek magic act with a pink gauze cloth. At one point, the men joined hands like acrobats to form a fan-shaped pose, echoing a photograph of a dance choreographed by Ted Shawn for his company of men in the early 1930s.