Crouching and kneeling, squatting  standing and lounging, a diverse audience were given a teatime festival booster by Dylan Quinn and his equally diverse Enniskillen-based ensemble. The strains of Superstition heralded sixty minutes of funky high energy rhythm, six expressive dancers on the move, the bass line of the music pulsating and a once empty space now a mini amphitheatre of performance frenzy.

The sources of the music created their own heady  cocktail mix with R and B and jazz and blues, rock and roll, soul and disco, and Quinn’s  choreography similarly made for  a dynamic fusion of  moves, skilfully blending  and extending  the idioms of  ballet, contemporary, hip hop and improv dance. Add large scoops of sugary energy and they were off, up close and personal, slyly skirting but never colliding with each other or with us, as we twitched to the infectious beat .

The dancers  swivelled and undulated, sexy and audacious,  working for and against the rhythms, their lines asymmetrical,  or aligned , arms and legs, hands and feet , shoulders , hips and torsos riffed the rhythms. There were solo runs , strutting and confident , duets interlocking  groove and move, signature pointing fingers or a funky arabesque. The pulsating sound created a constant framing for the upbeat tempo of the dance and Quinn and his electrically charged dancers, Eithne Kane, Jenny Ecke, Namiko Gahier Ogawa, Rita Pinheiro, Vasiliki Stasinaki were ever sparking.

Star rating: ★★★★