Rachid Ouramdane is on a roll. This year, the Algerian-French choreographer has produced three major works—for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève; the Olympics’ cultural wing; and, this month, for Chaillot, France’s national theater for dance, in Paris, which Ouramdane runs. For all three pieces (supported by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels), he has engaged both aerialists and the usual, relatively earthbound dancer for essays in falling and flight that never come to the same conclusion. Outsider, in Geneva, conveyed the danger and exhilaration of being “caught up”—or dropped—by society. The massive Mobius Morphoses, for the Cultural Olympiad, had bird flight patterns in mind. And now Contre-nature (Unnatural) takes up time, that very French preoccupation: how it is lost and found, how it flies and stills. —Apollinaire Scherr