Each of the 21 piano pieces that make up Erik Satie’s “Sports et Divertissements” has a title defining its subject: fishing, racing, tennis, golf. The program for “Sport,” Mark Morris’s new dance to the Satie score, doesn’t reproduce those titles. For this dance, such labels would be redundant.

The work, which had its world premiere at the Rose Theater on Wednesday, the opening night of this year’s Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, is one of Mr. Morris’s droll pantomime pieces. In each section, the dancers very clearly act out the corresponding title (though not, it seems, Satie’s accompanying prose poems). Now they’re swimming; now they’re playing blind man’s buff. To identify what’s going on takes almost no time at all.

Very little time is available, since most of the pieces (crisply played by Colin Fowler) last only 20 or 30 seconds, none longer than a minute and a half. Brevity is the soul of wit here, but also a recurring limit, as time keeps running out.

Mr. Morris contributes some continuity with choreography between the pieces, yet each section essentially stands alone. You see how a sheet becomes a sail, or a waterslide in which a dancer is dragged. You notice how four men contort into an octopus. You smile.