If you hear Netherlands Dance Company, you immediately picture the Mecca of ultra-contemporary cutting-edge dance fusion and unrivaled technical virtuosity. Yes - to the latter, but not quite the former.

The Netherlands Dance Company is usually cherished for its innovative, multifaceted choreography. Imagine a multitude of impeccably polished dancers with mesmerizing dexterity and agility gliding through space, defying gravity and twining into a kinetic puzzle of bodies that look alien and surreal.

Mindful Viscerality or Visceral Mindfulness? It is fascinating how these two terms magically overlap in most post-modern theatre performances to reveal two distinct but complementary approaches to devising experimental work today. If you take both terms and match them in a mirror image you get the impact of the projected image and the resonance of its reflection. The subtle interplay between projection and reflection, between impact and resonance, between conceptualism and viscerality weaves the intricate thread of contemporary physical theatre today, but has its roots in German expressionistic dance (Ausdruckstanz) and American abstract conceptualism (Dance Theatre).

As the ancient Greek muse of Dance, she is a fashion icon that cyclically sheds her skin to reveal new trends of fusion and cross-pollination. Whether she wears Roman sandals or Nike sneakers, whether she is barefooted or iron clad she is constantly shifting as part of an evolving body culture. What does Terpsichore’s contemporary dance vocabulary look and feel like today? Intangible, elusive, fluid and freewheeling - in a state of flux.