Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter knows how to choose a dancer. His company, 10-strong for Theatre of Dreams, is astonishing.

Every fragment of energy each dancer possesses is extracted for Shechter’s extraordinarily muscular work. Bodies whip like a length of wire that’s been put under pressure and released. They often stand up tall and strut forward, shoulders back, elbows bent, arms following jauntily

As always in Shechter’s work there is the ancestral memory of folk dance, seen in lines, circles and shapes. That is the most moving part of his work – his insistence on and persistence with community celebration.

Hofesh Shechter: Theatre of Dreams. Photo © Andrew Beveridge

Otherwise the dancers look ultra confident and cocky, dressed apparently in whatever they thought they’d look good in under Tom Visser’s hazy lighting (there is a costume designer of course, Osnat Keiner). There is not one jot of vulnerability, not even when one dancer strips off completely. He looks fantastic, obviously.

That dancer is a sort of stand-in for the audience I think. He’s the one who enters the auditorium from a side door (fully...