Lo-Tec to Give All-Male Concert, for a Change : Dance: Three different approaches to modern dance will be highlighted by three New York performers.

The title of this weekend’s Lo-Tec concert is “Made in New York.” But a better description of the two performances scheduled for Three’s Company’s Hillcrest studio this weekend might be “ Man -Made in New York.”

Men have been conspicuously absent from most of Three’s Company’s Lo-Tecs this summer. And even on those rare occasions when men were around, they were heavily outnumbered by women.

Not so this weekend. Ron Brown, Albert Reid and Richard Haisma are flying in from New York City to perform Saturday and Sunday at 8:30 p.m.

Brown will perform his provocative solo, “Next,” and a new one he calls “The Gift.”

Haisma has a suite of popular solos to showcase.

Reid will make two solo appearances and perform with a trio of Three’s Company dancers in “Corral.”

A two-week workshop at Three’s Company brought Brown to San Diego earlier this month, and he found himself inspired.

“It was a complete surprise to me that I would do a new piece while I’m here,” he said in a break from teaching class, “but the two Terries (Terry Wilson and Terri Shipman) are so beautiful I’d like to use them in New York when I do the piece, if they could come.”

Brown will introduce “Next,” the dance that provoked Deborah Jowitt of the Village Voice to say, “You watch his body the way you listen to someone saying something important and true.” The respected dance critic praised Brown’s choreography as well--for its “strong yet variegated movements.”

The dancer himself described “Next” (a piece that culminates with a nude image at the far end of the stage) as “so contemporary, it doesn’t pull any punches. It’s about a character not having control of his death or his destiny.”

Brown--an emotion-charged, Jose Limon-based dancer--peels off layers of clothing during the dance as a metaphor for “stripping away, as we feel there is nothing left to lose. The image is very stark,” he said, “but I’ve never shocked anyone, because the character is so vulnerable.”

Haisma, who performs one-third of the program, wasn’t planning to arrive in San Diego until dress rehearsal, but he talked about his role in this male-dominated program by telephone from New York last weekend.

“Actually, we’re all independent artists,” Haisma said. “I’ve never worked with the other two before, and our work stems from different traditions.”

Though Haisma’s modern dance background springs from the Murray Louis line, his own choreography is more theatrical.

“My work is much more emotional and much more musical. Some of it is very sensual, but I can’t separate myself from my ideas.”

As a result, Haisma’s “Six Short Dreams,” will incorporate “political elements, dark elements and absurd elements--a whole range of ideas,” as Haisma described the suite. “I’ve done the concert several times. I just did it in New York Friday night, and the response was wonderful.”

Reid, the third link in this disjointed chain of male choreographers, made a detour to Santa Barbara on his way to this week’s Lo-Tec concert. But, in a telephone interview earlier this week, he confided his misgivings about being teamed up with dancers he doesn’t even know. “I don’t generally (share a program),” Reid said. “This could be terrible, but I’m gambling that it will be interesting for the audience to see a wide range of modern dance.”

Reid is doing his part to ensure variety on this weekend’s triple bill. The long-time Cunningham dancer-teacher will perform two Cunninghamesque solos--tailored to his own idiosyncratic taste.

“My work is like Cunningham’s, but more lyrical. I like to dance with the music, and I don’t use chance,” he assured, distancing himself from two of his mentor’s trademarks.

“I’m using three dancers from Three’s Company for another piece,” Reid noted. “Dancers who studied with me three years ago when I taught a workshop in San Diego.”

As Reid noted, this kind of mixed bill has built-in risks. But one way or the other--by putting the accent on men--the event should fill a void on the local concert dance scene.