Roam

Choreographer Tom Dale describes his attractive 45-minute dance as "navigating a path across the landscapes of our lives", an abstract concept that leads his dancers (three women and two men) through a series of variations suggesting encounters, wariness, power plays and departures.

Set to the alternately techno and Caribbean-flavoured music of Sam Shackleton, Jo Wills and Guy Wood, the episodes repeatedly begin with one or more dancers self-protectively holding back to watch another or others before joining in, and typically one dancer will seek to dominate, setting the steps for another or others to follow – one duet ends with the dominant woman leading the man on an invisible leash.

Other recurring patterns in Dale's choreography include stylised casual strolling, sinuous movements driven by waving or flailing arms, and animal-like crawling and rolling about, the dancers sometimes spending as much time close to the floor as on their feet.

Both the movements themselves and the small dramas they suggest are engrossing and pleasurable to watch.