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Contemporary dance. Richard Alston, Artistic Director of The Place, the UK's leading centre for contemporary dance, is internationally recognised as one of the most influential and inspiring choreographers in British dance. Touch and Go is driven by the insistent and irresistible pull of Argentinian tango. Piazzolla's music provokes a mood of restless excitement and repressed desires. Alston responds with fast-paced steps and intricate partnering. It is an explosive combination certain to exhilarate. Soda Lake, picturing a lone figure in the vast Mojave desert, will be performed for the first time by Alston's long-standing colleague and interpreter, Martin Lawrance. The evening also includes the sharp and atmospheric Red Run, set to a jazz-influenced score by the cult German composer Heiner Goebbels. Completing the programme is the beautiful duet Light Flooding into Darkened Rooms which delves into the inner feelings of two individuals in intimate encounter. Accompanied live by sublime 17th century lute pieces from Denis Gaultier and Ars Brevis, a contemporary work for mandolin by the Japanese composer Jo Kondo, Light Flooding receives its London premiere in these Queen Elizabeth Hall performances.