Mapdance is a company of 15 female dancers formed from recent graduates. Both by training, and also physically, they are a varied selection, but they blend well in this enjoyable show. Funding has enabled them to commission work from four quality choreographers, They opened with Blossom, by Yaara Dolev, founder of the Telaviv Dance Company. This was a good choice; a strong abstract piece showing off the whole company in a work hinting at our dependence on nature, and our gradual emergence as individuals.

Zola Station is a station in Soweto where “you constantly watch your back”. In Gregory Maqoma’s piece the anxious travellers, at first seated on chairs around the stage, gradually form relationships as they wait for transport. There are moments of relaxation, but the mood is of fear, and the wish to get away as quickly as possible.

Fifteen Minutes Too Long is a risky title, but happily it turns out to be 20 minutes of riveting entertainment. The scene is a dance audition. Sitting at a table with a microphone is a girl who, it turns out, is being interviewed about the events we witness. In the theatre’s empty front row sits a glamorous bitch, (India Pearson), who is now a star, and is auditioning dancers.

“Next,” she cries cruelly, after each girl has only taken a couple of steps. “Their disappointment is her food,” says the lady with the mic — “how I wish there would be defiance!” Defiance arrives in a dancer who refuses to get off the stage, and in the tiny person of Tomomi Kosano, who screams out her fury in a torrent of Japanese. But this was just fantasy. The truth is that the girl with the mic kicked the star to death.

Rumbles, Rocks and Hard Knocks is danced to music and old interview clips of the country and western star Wanda Jackson. There’s a light-hearted hoe-down feel to it.