Phoenix Dance Theatre, appearing under their new artistic director Xavier de Frutos, presented four interesting and well-crafted works on Tuesday night. The programme is called Stories in Red, though how the scheduled Snow White in Black would have fitted I'm not sure. In the event it was replaced by Henri Oguike's Signal, inspired, and indeed accompanied, by the sound of Japanese Taiko drumming. By a happy coincidence - or did de Frutos scour the contemporary dance world for a red work? - the cast were all in the appropriate colour, led on by Lisa Welham in a twisty little solo Gaku (Let's Have Fun).

Taiko is a battlefield instrument, and much of the work is a kind of frenzied tribal dance in front of live flames on the stage. It is performed with great precision, and is punctuated by more fluid sections to the sound of strings and bells, ending in a moment of complete calm.

Pave Up Paradise, by Ben Duke and Raquel Meseguer, is based on "our endless fascination with the boy-meets-girl story. First cast: Adam and Eve" (see picture).There's quite a lot of talk between the dancers (Douglas Thorpe and Lisa Welham) on the lines of "and The Lord said Do not drink too much, do not masturbate too much, do not eat of the fruit of the tree, do not be distracted by the naked woman'." The woman is very much the dominant personality here, in what is at times an irritating, but mostly enjoyable, piece.

d=3,3,1Darshan Singh Bhuller's Laal (the Hindi word for red) draws on our feeling for this passionate colour, particularly the idea of fear. It's a powerful solo (originally created for a man) danced with athletic muscularity by Kialea-Nadine Williams.

The hit of the evening was Xavier de Frutos's Nopalitos. He says it started with his idea of a New World Medea climbing the Pyramid of the Sun, but transformed itself into a mystery play of matriarchs and fragile men. This sounds like heavy stuff, but what we see is an uplifting and colourful work. Inside a kind of circus tent, Jean-Marc Puissant's multicoloured costumes with Spiderman-like balaclavas add a carnival feel. The ranchero songs, performed by Lila Downs, at times fuse beautifully, at other times contrast with this Mexican mixture of harlequinade and mystery play.