MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP

The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn. (718) 636-4100. Season runs through Sunday.

THE Mark Morris Dance Group is now as Brooklyn as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Even its headquarters is only a block and a heartbeat away from the Academy’s Howard Gilman Opera House, where the company has its spring season with two distinct programs – and four New York premieres.

“Kolam,” created in tandem with Yo-Yo Ma’s “The Silk Road Project,” explores a palette of East/West ethnicity. It proves a rich choreographic tapestry – original, striking and, as always with this troupe, handsomely and seamlessly danced.

Although the audience rapturously received Morris’ own new solo, “Serenade,” set to music by Lou Harrison, it struck me as self-indulgent in its determination to make much of little.

But Morris is among those many artists who are at their best when they’re at their simplest, although perhaps never as simple as they seem.

In that sense, another premiere, “Something Lies Beyond the Scene,” based on the famous “entertainment” devised in the ’20s by Edith Sitwell and William Walton called “Facade,” suggests beguiling innocence savored with a little touch of naughtiness.

The fourth new work, “Resurrection,” uses an authorized brief version of the Richard Rodgers score “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue.”

With clever-chic costumes by Isaac Mizrahi and dances that owe more to Busby Berkeley and Susan Stroman than to Balanchine’s original, “Resurrection” has made the slaughter almost vestigial – but the work itself is a sweet, fun valentine to Broadway.