Russian dance company Rain People are to dance what Picasso is to art. They redefine the boundaries of dance performance. Their performance has an improvisatory quality to it which flows beautifully. Their classical training and extreme agility and control allows them to start by presenting a piece which represents a day at the seaside. It looks like real life, but is so subtly choreographed and acted you smell the sea. Towards the end of the number, which is played out to the soundtrack of waves breaking against the shore mixed with a modern Russian pop ballad, two members of the company find small lightweight plastic bags on the beach and blow them into the air, responding to their movements with agility and total concentration. They dance everyday life and make it approachableThe next piece takes the performers on a train journey, in which they use individual metal frames that move on wheels. These become compartments, carriages, with which the dancers interact, playing with the idea of boundaries of space. When balletic moves or poses incorporated into the piece, they are executed flawlessly in classical techniqueThen they take their audience to a party with tables and chairs on wheels being rolled on and about the stage. The ensemble work is tight, the emotional content clear. Faultlessness is the quality they bring to every piece and it gets better. They continue to dance a social commentary on contemporary life, with men in black taking on sinister resonances when pitted against the world they live in, in contrast to a young woman with a supermarket trolley. The metaphor is left brilliantly open-ended, nothing is explicit. It is the simple moves that really show that Rain People are in a class of their own. They really know how to glide in a perfectly executed slow walk, the perambulate around the stage in complete technical mastery. You cannot tell where one movement ends and the other begins. A well-chosen and sound-sculpted soundtrack which ranges from found music, recordings of the natural world, electronic music compositions and arrangements of Bach swells and grows throughout the performance to provide a challenging and transformative climax. Subtle and effective lighting effects add to the total theme of excellence.