Intertwine

This is dance presented without gimmicks: a black stage, white spotlights, music and human bodies. Collisions Dance Company prove they don't need anything else.

Four different pieces allow the company to display their command of the full spectrum of moods; varying from internal conflict, through exhilaration, to comedy and satire.

There are sequences of sheer excitement, prevalent in the group pieces Inertia (a visual feast of choreography and performance) and the finale Gloria. While the more introspective pieces, 2 and Soupirs make highly effective use of small details - in Soupirs, for example, choreographer David Beer's use of hands could be a show in itself.

The pieces include an increasing amount of theatrical techniques as the programme progresses, culminating in Gloria, a dance drama of brio and wit, that both celebrates the importance of popular music in charting our emotional entanglements, while being equally happy to take the piss out of its more saccharin aspects.

Packed with energy, grace, precision, tight ensemble work, wit and drama – Collisions drives straight to the pulses, and at fifty minutes running time Intertwine gives more value than Asda.