Cois Ceim Dance Theatre has joined forces with its favourite Northern stamping ground, the Old Museum Arts Centre, for this Belfast Festival world premiere. Seasons is precisely what is suggested by the title: a four-part journey through the seasons, choreographed by Muirne Bloomer, Allan Irvine and Liz Roche.

Through a series of subtle changes of pace, costume, mood, music and movement, the year gradually unfolds, from the stark shapes and dislocated rhythms of winter, into the joyous, haphazard sprouting of young spring shoots, the languid heat of high summer and, finally, the mellow resignation of autumn. More abstract than anything we have yet seen from this technically proficient, highly athletic company, Seasons, for all its minute, intriguing detail is, as yet, a little lacking in definition and personality. There are flashes of Simone Litchfield's gamine mischief and Liz Roche's arch humour, with some beautifully crafted moments of drama, particularly from young Anne Gilpin, a graduate of Ulster Youth Dance, here making her debuth with the company.

Helen McCusker's minimal costumes, together with Paul Keogan's dramatic lighting and white gauze-draped set, reflect this new expressionist departure, which, at this early stage in its development, makes for rather earnest endeavours on the part of the audience.