Welcome to the Underworld. A dark, haunting and otherworldly place, a take on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.

The eight athletic performers with their expressionless faces floated around the stage in extraordinary movements. They seemed to be shells of their former human selves. Stuck in a ritual, punctuated by a soundtrack of church bells and choristers similar to the noises of the world outside when you're submerged in water, they grasped at the things which once made them human. It was so far out that at points it felt incomprehensible.

The re-staging of Underworld, first performed in 2012, is part of Vincent Dance Theatre's 21st anniversary celebrations. 21 years / 21 works is a live and online collection of Charlotte Vincent's work spanning the last two decades. Underworld is visually striking, seamlessly choreographed and nowhere will you find a more incredible use of 150 chairs.

It was an oddly compelling and strangely watchable performance, but it failed to capture the entire audience's interest to the end.

Numbers were far lighter when the lights went up after 140 minutes of powerful movement. But the evaluating questionnaire, perhaps tellingly, asked: 'How long did you stay in the theatre?'. So maybe challenging the conventional boundaries of watching performance was all part of the plan.

Three stars