The exuberant dance show Havana Rakatan offers a two-hour escape from the fog and frost of a November night into the warmth and colour of the sun-drenched island of Cuba.

The creation of choreographer Nilda Guerra and a 14-strong team of dancers, this uplifting celebration of Cuban music and movement was first presented to huge acclaim at London’s Peacock Theatre three years ago and has since toured extensively in the UK.

Those with a serious interest in dance technique will find that it supplies, in conjunction with close study of the programme, a comprehensive teach-in on the development of Cuban dance. Rarely, you might think, can education have been so entertaining!

Essentially, it is a fusion of styles imported from the African continent by slaves carried to the island and those of the Spaniards who were their taskmasters.

The rumba, bolero, cha-cha-cha and mambo became familiar in dance halls around the world in the middle years of the last century; later came the contagious rhythm of the salsa, a passion for a younger set.

As the different steps are demonstrated, we are treated to thrilling, often sexually provocative displays that, paradoxically, appear at once rigidly disciplined and wildly abandoned.

The eight-strong band Tuquino, featuring sensational work by trumpeter Alberto Pellicer, maintain an infectious, irresistible rhythm. There is excellent work, too, from the lead vocalists Geidy Chapman and Michel Antonio Gonzáles Pacheco.

Designer Camilo Rosales supplies a perfect setting for the action in back-projected images of the incomparable Spanish colonial architecture of Havana.

This unmissable show is on until tomorrow night. Box office: tel 01494 512000 (www.wycombeswan.co.uk).