DANCE REVIEW

FAST approaching the end of its two-week season at the Joyce Theater, Garth Fagan Dance continues to explore Fagan’s own distinctive repertory.

Fagan, the Tony-winning choreographer of “The Lion King,” kahas over the years perfected a totally individual dance dialect.

His approach, and indeed that of his carefully trained dancers, is essentially virtuosic. The velocity of its spindling turns, impossible-looking balances and the antelope-like, off-kilter leaps are a kind of copyright.

Yet a classic subtext runs under all these coolly acrobatic fireworks. Feet may be bare, but toes are firmly pointed. Arms and legs are extended in parallels far more akin to ballet than expressionist dance. Fagan’s dance structure, however, is jazzy — it builds in riffs and tutti passages in a kind of individualistic free-fall, suggesting improvisation, but the design is actually strict.

Wednesday’s program — there are three on view — included a revival of the 11-year-old “Time After Before Place” and “Two Pieces of One: Green,” to a score by the late jazz-rock drummer Tony Williams and music by the 16th-century Spanish composer, Cristobal de Morales.

All the programs include this season’s world premiere, “Woza,” to music by Lebo M., one of the composers of “The Lion King.”

The Joyce Theater is at 175Eighth Ave. at 19th St.; call(212) 242-0800.