Boris Charmatz belongs to that generation of French choreographers, now past middle-age, who have remade the New York postmodernists in their own image. For example, they are less interested in the seriousness with which Yvonne Rainer et al. questioned every assumption than in the simplicity of the experimentalists’ means: The French risk dopeyness to avoid pretension. For Charmatz, endearing goofiness shows up most readily in his solos, a recent form for him, 30 years into his brilliant dancemaking. His first solo, like his second, has a serious aim: to work against what we imagine is danceable. The 2021 Somnole, which toured internationally, was indebted to sleep. Charmatz wrapped himself in dreams and their fuzzyheaded aftermath as he charmingly bumbled about the stage. This year’s Muette isn’t just unaccompanied by music, it inhabits the realm “where language is stifled,” the choreographer notes. Muette begins its tour in Brussels, then travels this summer and autumn to Vienna, Avignon, Rome, and more cities to come. —Apollinaire Scherr

Boris Charmatz brings Muette to Vienna (July 10 to 12), Villeneuve lez Avignon (July 17 to 24), and Rome (October 2 to 4). Check Web site for more information