Life in its barest, most oozing, alien form goes on a full circle journey in this beguiling piece from acclaimed Taiwanese choreographer Chuang Po-Hsiang. Three dancers, nude except for flesh-coloured underwear and masks that anonymise their faces, start out as a knotted, pulsing single being. They tumble over and under the clot of their own bodies, fire out limbs into deity-like formations, balance in strange postures that make bulbous eyes out of upturned buttocks, and create antennae out of legs waving in the air. 

As the lighting softens and brightens, the beast they have created becomes more tender. Glued together at the waist, the three dancers find harmony in their multitude of fingers and arms, toes and legs. Later still, after splitting apart into the loping gaits of apes, the swishing turns of humans, they still perform as an immaculate entity. Chuang’s cyclical odyssey has a bewitching, primal power. 

D_Antidote Production: Palingenesis, Dance Base, until 25 August, 6.40pm; main picture: Po-Wei Chen.