Daghda Dance Company's three pieces, Looks Like Thunder, Feels Like Rain were "designed to stimulate the imagination in different ways" and they were certainly contrasting. The piece by Yosiko Chuma, Reverse Psychology, used a light metal cube to frame or exclude the action and the five dancers moved and turned it to change the perspective as they somersaulted or kickboxed their way through it, their combined action and sudden stops requiring perfect precision. Using Irish traditional music recordings, Chuma got laughs by having performers lip-synching to it, but there was an awful lot of running around and I kept feeling I was watching a girls' football team in training.

My favourite piece was Paul Johnson's Spiro, a lyrical piece of pure movement to a score by John Cage with percussive passages, the five dancers in white trousers and tunics partnering one another in a series of encounters. Mary Nunan, on the other hand, in collaboration with Cindy Cummings and the dancers, successfully conveyed the theme of rain, but the choreography was almost as if devised for the children to perform and I felt young people might have preferred more challenging movement. Nevertheless it, and both the other pieces, were well danced by Aisling Doyle, Jane Kelleghan, Debbie McDowell, Mairead Vaughan and Rebecca Walter.