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Pascal Rioult’s choreography is a cornerstone of modern dance, but its musicality is decidedly classical, putting a new lens on enduring masterworks. Take “Wien,” set to Maurice Ravel’s La Valse. The Viennese waltz with sinister undertones becomes symbolic of a society overtaken by evil as twirling dancers mime breaking each other’s necks and fall to the floor. Rioult’s nine-member troupe brings this startlingly original dance to Lyndonville on Friday, along with two others. Energetic leaps match Ravel’s building crescendo in “Bolero,” and whirling red skirts and Bach’s The Art of Fugue make “Views of the Fleeting World” more meditative.