A HUDDERSFIELD dance company fresh from the Edinburgh Festival is preparing for a show on home ground.

The Balbir Singh Dance Company will stage Trespass #II and Decreasing Infinity, a combination of captivating new work and critically acclaimed pieces.

The Lawrence Batley Theatre-based Company creates dynamic dance through a synthesis of north Indian classical Kathak, live music and contemporary dance.

Shepley-based Balbir trained as a dancer at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance.

He has an abiding love of Kathak dance, which dates back 500 years.

And his company is returning to Leeds after recent sell out performances at the Dublin Dance Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Their show, on Thursday evening, sees six dancers and three musicians break down the boundaries of Kathak and contemporary dance and rebuild them in an exploration of invasion through live music and dance.

They intrude on each others territory, colliding and collaborating in beautiful combinations.

Decreasing Infinity returns to Leeds after recent performances in Dublin and Edinburgh, where it played to great critical acclaim.

The mesmerising male duet draws on both Kathak and contemporary dance, and features live tabla and beatbox.

Choreographer Balbir said: “Always working with original live music, the work challenges dancers to explore their musicality as well as their physicality.”

His work aims to brings together the skills, disciplines and traditions

of Kathak with the less constraining possibilities of contemporary dance.

The talented cast includes contemporary dancers from around the UK and abroad, who are joined by Giuliano Modarelli on guitar, Kousic Sen on tabla, Al MacSween on the keyboard and providing the electronics, and Bigg Taj beatboxing.

Showing their skills are dancers Ezekiel Oliveira, Sooraj Subramaniam, Amy Butler, Naomi Hibberd, Tegen Whyte, Talitha Luke-Eardley.

See the show at the Stage@Leeds venue, the University of Leeds, September 22 at 7pm. Tickets are £10.50/£8.50 for concessions from the Box Office on 0113 343 8730 www.stage.leeds.ac.uk.