The programme included all the things that drive me up the wall. Smiley dancers mugging to the audience; dancing with no music; dull, uninspired, unflattering costumes; bare sets; dark lighting of the stage ..... but strangely enough I loved it.

I can only think it's because I'm a sucker for percussion. And the fact that Fugue is not really silent, although it went pretty quiet at times.

After my last couple of outings to see modern/contemporary dance, call it what you will, what made it for me was that the dancers were interacting with each other. Just when I'd come to the conclusion that modern dance insisted that all the performers should wander aimlessly, but with "attitude" around the stage, trying at all costs to avoid a dialogue with any other dancer they might encounter.

And well done for finishing the evening with an intense piece rather than something fluffy.

Now if only someone would revive Cloven Kingdom or bring Kodo back to the UK I could get another percussion fix.

Fugue didn't do much for me: something did seem to be amiss with the amplification, it wasn't particularly powerful (and I was down in the stalls: I think it must have been fainter further away).

Known by Heart was done one one of the programmes when the ROH reopened (the festival of International Choreography one), done by Ethan Stiefel I think. It made more of an impression this time round, possibly because the dancers were much closer than in the ROH. But it seemed perhaps to overstate its own case a bit - maybe just a bit too clever and cutesy for its own good. Undeniably impressive performances though.

If Surfer at the River Styx has anything to do with the Bacchae as claimed, then this remains opaque for me. Terrific opportunity for the men to show off though - ferociously fast and exciting.