THE Two Souls of Guarracino, Movimento Danza's three night Dublin Theatre Festival run in the Peacock last night, should be seen by anyone with the slightest interest in dance. A company which has twice before visited Dublin to perform at the Project, its choreographer and artistic director Gabriella Stazio uses a mixture of classical and contemporary technique in an original and exciting way.

The title piece, to music by Roberto de Simone and Luigi Stazio, which incorporates Italian airs like Catari and Funicuh fumcula, opens the programme, inspired by the Neopolitan tarantella. Its six black clad dancers not only enact the ritual of the processional dance, but also the belief that it derived from the dancing mania supposedly resulting from the bite of a tarantula. Thus the dancers' staves are not only ceremonially raised but also used to stab and ward off the dreaded spider, as are the red scarves tucked into their waists.

Aria, scored by M. Nyman for the Balanescu Quartette, was created by Stazio last year for Adrienne Brown's New Balance company at the Samuel Beckett, where it received an acceptable performance. Yet it seemed a different work when all its five dancers, so topically swept hither and thither by the Irish winds, could give it the high extensions of classical ballet. The final piece, Kendang, inspired by the Balinese Keijak, or Monkey Dance, with its wild drumming by Les Tamboijrs du Bronx received an equally rapturous reception for its primitive energy and its athletic dancers. The fine lighting and costumes, also by Stazio, added to the enjoyment.