The Contemporary Dance Company members will bring original choreography and modern dance to the University during their spring performances at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Playhouse Theatre.

"There's no restraint or restriction on the movement you want to do," said Elizabeth Limons, assistant director of the company, about modern dance. Each dance number can convey messages ranging from the serious to a celebration or "more abstract dramatic work," Limons added.

Five of the numbers to be performed were created in the '90s. These pieces were choreographed by the three women who head of the company --founder and Director Patricia Heigel-Tanner, Assistant Director Susan Koff and Limons.

Limons created the piece Common Space, written in 1992. In some sections of the piece, the dancers move in unison to harmonious music, signifying their daily lives, while others silently portray deeper underlying conflicts and emotions, Limons said.

Company member Kristen Davis (junior-integrated arts) described the piece as an "exploration of the relationship between three people that live together."

Parallel Lives and Morning Sings, Twilight Sighs are Koff's creations. The first piece deals with the ups and downs of daily life. In the second piece, the vitality of morning and the sleepiness of evening are paralleled to youth and the twilight years of life.

Heigel-Tanner choreographed En l'Air and 3601 during the past two years.

"It's about birds . . . it's about flight and air," said Jennifer Ferland (graduate-French) of En l'Air. The dancers start out low and, as the piece builds, work their way off the ground and into the air, Ferland said.

3601 is based more on Heigel-Tanner's personal experiences.

"She took to the piece the experience of her parents' death and the whole process of accepting it," said company member Andrew Allis Jr. (senior-advertising). The funeral itself, the visiting relatives and the mourners' dynamics are part of Heigel-Tanner's work, Allis said.

A third piece written by Heigel-Tanner will also be performed, Duet for Flute and Dancer, written in 1980.

"(The composer's) musical score is for a flute . . . and the rhythm (the composer) wants the dancer to do," said Vicky Beretta (senior-general arts and sciences) of her solo piece. The number has the two lines play off each other and intermix, similar to two voices in a piece of music.

The final piece will be Stages, the work of four-year guest choreographer J. Casey Sams. Sams will also perform as a guest in two other pieces.

Tickets are availiable at Eisenhower Auditorium's box office. Admission is $5 for students and $6 for general admission. The show is sponsored by the College of Health and Human Development.