Michael Clark Company Triple Bill

Barbican Centre, EC1

4 Stars

The second of Michael Clark's triple bill of new and reworked dance pieces is the spiky core of this brilliantly visualised production.

Throughout, the abstract movement is sublime and the mathematical precision of the dancers totally connects with the visual elements and the combination of geometric or curiously hued orange costumes by Stevie Stewart and Richard Torry, together with lighting and lurid video sequences by Charles Atlas, enhances the "look."

The performances and those supportive elements add up to a dance happening which is measured, bewildering and splendid in equal measure.

In Clark's choreography the eloquent replaces the brutal as the dancers flow in controlled counterpoint and for a moment Clark himself graces the stage, then gives way to a company in which the power of Julie Cunningham and Melissa Hetherington emerges as the prime energisers of a six-strong company.

From the opening dreamy section to music from Scritti Politti, the movement motifs are deceptively complex. Time signatures are infused with angular movement and spinning and twisting trajectories which halt for a moment before the headlong physicality resumes and subsides again.

The second piece oozes unabated punk from Public Image Limited and the Sex Pistols with Cunningham thrillingly holding the attention along with the imperious Benjamin Warbis and Harry Alexander.

Clark remains a real heavy deal and the final section featuring music by Pulp and Relaxed Muscle does everything to confirm his non-stop capacity to deliver monumental dance.

Runs until November 30. Box office: (020) 7638-8891

Peter Lindley