Contemporary dance is not one of my favourite artforms to review, mainly because I lack the expert understanding to do it justice, but also because I rarely find it as captivating as other arts. The Print Room, unconventional as ever, are currently staging a unique dance and sculpture collaboration, ‘Jealousy’; the intimate theatre space has been transformed to create a truly atmospheric show.

The audience sit in the round, well in the rectangle, surrounding the bizarrely sculptural set. We are voyeuristic onlookers peering into a very private story. The dancers are constricted within the confines of Laurence Kavanagh’s sculptural modernist design, they weave in and around the angular hanging props. The hour long piece is a depiction of a vicious love triangle: anger, passion and jealousy are realised through the energetic, balletic movement. The narrative is based loosely on the ‘nouveau’ novel ‘Jealousy’ by Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1957. The four choreographers (James Cousins, Hubert Essakow, Daniel Hay-Gordon and Morgann Runacre-Temple) illustrate the major elements of the piece through object, gesture, soundscape, lighting and viewpoint. Amazingly these four choreographers have worked effectively together creatively a seamless and fluent piece.

Seven talented dancers are used in different pairings, occasionally dancing alone on stage but most often using each other to deliver complex routines, all of which are precisely synced with the sound and music. The dancers display impressive strength, and I found the girls particularly engaging, moving with intense concentration and piercing facial expressions. Aesthetically this production excels – the sound and lighting contribute enormously to presenting a striking show. The music is a montage of sounds, a wildly experimental and unpredictable soundtrack, it is very affecting.

Jealousy is a visually spectacular production that at times I found wholly overwhelming, an hour well spent.

Continues until 18 February, book here.