Meeting House Square was packed on Thursday for Liz Roche's new piece The Salt Cycle by Rex Levitates Dance Company. Unable to dim house lights until the heavens decreed, the opening dance with full cast behind a gauze began before the audience was fully aware of it. Then the gauze fell to reveal Jonathan Mitchell dancing on his own, before being joined by the tall Grant McLay in a duet with remarkable lifts.

Indeed lifts, like acrobats in slow motion, were a feature throughout as the men were joined by Jenny Roche and Katherine O'Malley, wearing Rebecca Jobson's red and wine dresses, their skirts split on one side and pinned up on the other, while Ella Clarke and Lisa McLaughin were in rose and lavender, their short skirts hooped to emphasise their swaying movement as they tried to achieve a foothold in an uncertain world. Sometimes dancers were themselves the obstacles which others had to surmount; at others they helped each other up and over. Denis Roche's intriguing score led them on through conflict to ultimate unity, while Paul O'Connor's graphic design, with images such as flying doves, a multitude of swans, hatching eggs and warning triangles, was projected on to the fan-like overhang, seen - like Nick McCall's lighting design - ever more clearly as the sky darkened.

An amusing sequence showed dancers posing before a screen. After a flash of light, they moved away, apparently leaving their image on the screen. Not even deliberately awkward movement affects the elegance and sophistication of Liz Roche's choreography, and all concerned well deserved the enthusiastic reception. These free events in Temple Bar are clearly building a large audience for dance.

More performances at 10 p.m. tomorrow to Friday. Free tickets from Temple Bar Properties, 18 Eustace Street