New Art Club @ The Assembly

In their tight blue leotards, and classic comedy partnership of authoritarian and idiot, New Art Club are dangerously close to a lazy send up of popular ideas about contemporary dance. Fortuantely, they are skilled dancers, intelligent choreographers, taboo-challenging humourists with bags of boom and charm, mocking dance out of love and not ignorance.

Big Bag of Boom is their greatest hits: as they say, less of the experimental and more of the funny. Winning over the audience with ribald skin-tight vaudeville, they settle into a relaxed showcase of musical theatre skits, taking pot-shots at Isadora Duncan, country dancing, themselves and terrorist beating before rocking out to the Buuzzcocks.

Beneath the belly laughs, a shrewd intelligence reveasl their grounding in dance. They don't mock dance, but use it as a vehicle for humour. The solo Another One is hilarious and a virtuosic display of precision: the moment it becomes a duet is hilarious and breath-taking. A sly dig at critics, episodes from their personal history, a tension between their ambitions: New Art Club are a reminder that self-awareness need not mean pretentious rambling.

Being their greatest hits - "we couldn't manage a new show," they complain - BBB is a calvacade of compassion comedic contemporary choreography.