Writing about dance is incredibly difficult: there seems something cruel in pinning down light-as-air movements with earth-bound words, yet Paradis is a delightful work which particularly demands a straightforward, evocative description.

Choreographed by the acclaimed Franco-Spanish dance team José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, Paradis is a stylish mix of modern and classical dance featuring performers in bright costumes on a simple stage. It dispenses with narrative and instead presents a clever, witty and energetic carnival that teases with varying levels of illusion and reality. Dancers appear to partner themselves or dance with their own shadows; they walk into the blackness and reappear, dancing vertically on the wall; they mingle with children and animals, and a projected copy of the stage curtain on to the curtain itself allows for further masquerade.

The work opened the Cannes film festival in 2000, and in 2001 it won a Laurence Olivier Award. This is a rare opportunity to see a filmed version of the work which gave Montalvo and Hervieu their international breakthrough, so be prepared: it's deceptively simple or simply deceptive.