The latest production by the Nederlands Dans Theatre 2 company comprises two new pieces and an old favourite; all of  which, demonstrate the imagination and vitality of the company.

Offspring, inspired by the birth of choreographer [Lukáš Timulak]’s child, features a number of surprises. Opening in silence with a couple who maintain eye contact throughout their dance until growing piano and violin music pushes them to greater urgency.

Although the company are dressed in uniform white against a black background there is a distinction between the sexes. Alone, a woman contemplates the imposition upon her body as her limbs seem to take-on a life of their own. In the background a dancer’s twisted movements becomes a child taking form.The men seem to have a better time with a tumbling dance yet, if its stop-start motion does suggest confusion at times, there is no hesitancy. The piece ends, appropriately, with both sexes moving in harmony.