Looking at the program, I saw some blurb that mentioned soul music and didn't even take in anything more, a show can't be bad with "sweet soul music". Then I had to figure out which show it actually was. It was actually dance, I thought i might have been someone actually performing the music.
I've said before that there is a parasitic relationship between dance and music, if you like the music (likely because you know it) the dance becomes more likeable. Someone like Suzanne Miller never dances to known music, Allan Paivio always creates something for a new piece, and so you're not distracted by the music. But this piece is chock full of soul music, and that's what it's about. Yes, sometimes the music overwhelms the dance, you get lost in it initially by its power, but the dance fits the music.
There was a time, like 45 years ago, when this would have been leading edge, modern dancers taking the new music and the social dance moves onto the stage, adding new vocabulary to dance. And this plays like that, rather than looking dated. Sometimes it looks more like a dance floor, then other times they get Otis Redding just right. It is contemporary dance, but because of the music it may be more "accessible". It's using a different vocabulary at times, to fit the music, rather than merely using old music for any old dance piece. The music sets the pieces, a slow one to start, and then it gets livelier. And when it ended, it didn't seem like much time had passed.