The Valerie Williams Co’Motion Dance Theater is at it again with a new concert, “Variations.”

The powerful repertory concert features variations in theme, movement, music, form and ideas.

“It’s about variations in a lot of different respects,” choreographer and dancer Valerie Williams said.

There are five dances included in the concert. The opening dance, “Light,” is made up of alterations of light and shadow.

“Variations on Grief” features music by Brahms and clocks in as the longest dance in the concert.

“It includes abstractions of regret, scream, collapse, repression and other expressions of grief,” Williams said.

“Adversary,” includes a sequence of eight slaps with the dancers blocking and ducking the slaps.

“This dance is less abstract and more literal than the other dances in the concert,” Williams said. “It would probably be the easiest for children to understand because some of the other dances require the viewer to have more living experience in order to fully understand them.”

Later in the show is an interpretation of Williams’ reaction to a text by Sojourner Truth titled “Of Determined Purpose.” Sojourner Truth spoke at the first Seneca Falls convention on women’s rights.

The final dance, “17 Variations,” includes exciting video images.

“The movement goes from an initial statement to more complex movements,” Williams said.

Williams choreographs all of the dances, but at times the dancers will change some of the movements during rehearsals.

“The dancers are all professional modern dancers and are trained to be intelligent participants in the rehearsal process,” she said. “If they do something different than I choreographed and it goes along with the movement, then great.”

Music included in the concert comes from Ravel, Weber, Cage, Preisner and Brahms.

“The composers gave me a structure for my dances. I chose the music because it went with the dance and with my idea,” Williams said. “I believe that it is important to see and discuss dance performances such as ‘Variations.'”

Williams recommends the 70-minute show for all ages, stressing that small children would be intrigued by the video images and the slap variations.

“Good art is for everybody,” she added.