Daghdha Dance Company opened their Double Take at the Samuel Beckett Centre in TCD last night with Mary Nunan's Chimera, premiered during the Dublin Fringe Festival last October. Though well-danced by the company, particularly by Rionach Ni Neill, who invested the strange, disjointed movements of her solo with great feeling, the piece is repetitive and suffers from unflattering costumes of black leatherette.

Far Flung, Nunan's new piece, is shorter and lighter in tone, satirising social interaction and partying, with the spotlight on life's little embarrassments. The dancers are not helped to get the comedy across, however, by having to work to a gloomy sound montage by Natasha Lohan suggestive of outer space, which seemed unrelated to the movement except for occasional bursts of the tango.

French dancer Romano Bottinelli managed to get laughs by sheer hard work and facial expressions, while the choreographer herself deputised for the injured Rionach Ni Neill with characteristic energy. Richard O'Brien, Lisa McLoughlin and Rebecca Walter completed the cast and did all that was asked of them, but neither piece seemed to develop and both ended as if time had just run out. Continues tonight and tomorrow night at the Samuel Beckett Centre. To book, phone: 01-6082461