An exercise in obsession and control, Alexa West’s candy-coated Jawbreaker Part 1 Part 2 pushes its dancers into states of total fixation. Together they strut, convulse, and struggle toward perfection.

In Dear John, Lina McGinn’s first solo exhibition at Europa, the artist pushes this material and metaphoric mutability toward its limits. A dozen sculptures, cast from cardboard boxes and dolled-up in various shades of high-gloss enamel, pose in states of torque across the gallery.