Henri Oguike Dance Company

The Nigerian/Welsh choreographer’s company has re-formed with a bill of three new works. The opening solo, Freq, sets up tingles of menace, with ghoulish music by Brian Eno and David Byrne. Water pours down in a glowingly lit shower. Elena Zaino steps under it, swirls and scatters spray, tossing her long hair, but it’s more eerie than playful. Little rhythmic steps develop into a manic dance of possession; she veers from mocking to sobbing and, finally, near-naked, spins and contorts in strobe light. By welcome contrast, Toccato, to Bach cello suites, shows Oguike’s pure-dance aspect, with a fluid momentum of movement for Josef Perou, Stephanie Hodgson and Sarah Linstra, in solo, duet or trio. Weaving, skipping, swapping places, they maintain serious expressions while the dance suggests a teasing game. But what to make of Butterfly Dreaming? A starry sky; oriental twangles, abrasive scrapes and weird yelps from Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera; an inscrutable, tense mood in the three dancers’ agitated moves and static poses. Oguike’s idea, from an ancient Chinese text, is the confusion of dreaming and waking states, but he left me unenlightened.