“I found Sombrisa, by Netherlands-based Israeli Itzik Galili, the most captivating piece. Its pattering percussion score (Steve Reich’s Drumming) offers the choreography more texture than foothold, so Galili has to construct his own compositional framework. This he does beautifully, with lines of male and female dancers merging, emerging and sometimes crossing to generate fleeting clusters and duets. Shifting pools and strips of light make the forms and figures seem to appear and vanish. The style is limber but low-key, driven more by flow than force; startlingly, the dancers all wear boxing gloves, which impart an unusual heft and swing to every move. It’s a piece that unfolds rather than goes anywhere, but watching it happen is a pleasure….”

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