At the prospect of the month-long Festival in London, the problem is not which of the 15 shows to pick but which to skip. The luxury jewelry house Van Cleef & Arpels’ dance wing, Dance Reflections, offers an embarrassment of riches. There are the dead and iconic—Cunningham via the Lyon Opera Ballet, Balanchine by the Royal Ballet, Trisha Brown—and the living and international (high-flying Rachid Ouramdane; the South African Robyn Orlyn, with a crucially political brand of Pina Bauschian dance theater; and the fantastical Franco-Malagasy collagist Soa Ratsifandrihana). If music matters, besides the aforementioned Ratsifandrihana and Balanchine, check out the post-Cunninghamists Pam Tanowitz, with original music by her astounding musical peer Caroline Shaw, and Jules—once Julie—Cunningham, with scores by the daring, tuneful Julius Eastman and Pauline Oliveros. As for dances that reimagine a pocket of the world, Jules Cunningham’s Pigeons and CROW honor the fluttery urban creatures that track our every bread crumb, while Shu Lea Cheang and Dondon Hounwn’s Hagay Dreaming takes us to a utopia where Taiwanese shamanic ritual and wizardly high tech meet. —Apollinaire Scherr