Brazilian choreographer Lili de Grammont presents a double-bill of work from the São José dos Campos Dance Company, laced with drama and propelled along with kinetic flow. In Voyeur, a diagonal line of dancers sits bisecting the stage, wearing boxy, cropped suits. At first they stare at us, then turn their gazes on each other, as they pair off in confrontational duets. Sharp straight limbs and pointy joints alternate with clinging webs of bodies coiled around each other. There is an undertow of menace, which erupts from time to time as the watching dancers suddenly burst into applause, or as one partner grabs the face of another. But despite the intensity with which the cast attack the choreography, overall it feels nebulous, like there is a puzzle piece missing.  

Samba And Love continues the same purposeful movement style but is similarly enigmatic. Here the dancers wear soft neutral colours and the music oscillates between industrial noises and samba drums. There are angular sequences, smooth capoeira roundhouse kicks, and once again the choreography rolls and flows from one segment to the next. Again, however, the point of the piece never really rises to the surface, despite a lip-synced speech on burnout. It feels as if we are moving in circles rather than forwards. 

Voyeur / Samba And Love, Assembly Dance Base, until Sunday 24 August, 1pm.