Eternity,' he announces. The performance should go on for ever instead of just an hour. Javier de Frutos's new piece, based on Tennessee Williams's work, suggests that everyone is damaged, one way or another. Cracked vessels though these characters are, however, they keep filling up with hope. Doug Elkins takes a sunnier view in his celebration of Beach Boys' songs - a series of sketches that does not quite add up to a revue.
Music is cut short, zippy ideas fizzle out.
The highlight is Surfer Girl, in which Welly O'Brien sails through the air, moving as freely with her partner, Jorg Koch, as a fish in water. Only when she lands do you realise that, like a mermaid, she cannot walk. Her transfiguration as a dancer is what CandoCo aims to achieve, and which choreographers are still learning to bring about.