L.A. Modern Dancers to Debut in S.D.

Variety is the byword of Los Angeles-based Pacific Dance Ensemble, one of the few repertory companies in modern dance today.

The thematic range of the four dances the troupe is packaging for its San Diego debut this weekend runs from the boy-meets-girl romanticism of “Full Circle” to the primordial ritualism of “Crow” to the hybrid style of “A Wrinkle in Space.”

The company even delves into the recesses of the human mind (albeit with a comic perspective) in “The Curse of ESP,” the closing work on the mixed bag scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Three’s Company’s Hillcrest studio.

“Diversity has been sort of the color of the company since we started two years ago,” said artistic director Danielle Shapiro, by phone from her Los Angeles studio. “We have 11 works in our repertory, and they’re generally by younger choreographers. I’m trying to support artists by commissioning works.”