This is the first show at the Lakeside for five years to make you come out feeling hungry. But Shobana Jeyasingh isn't simply a choreographer who's original for the sake of originality; here she's created something compelling and fascinating. An hour-long piece danced by four women and three men, Just Add Water? is all about cuisine.

To a background of noises associated with the kitchen - the sound of deep frying, of knives being sharpened, and so on - the performers are in near continuous action. The only time they're off stage is to make way for a fairly underwhelming bit of kaleidoscopic abstract projection, which adds little to the evening but allows for costume changes.

The dancing is incredibly balletic and graceful. And it's varied: at the beginning it has a generous element of North Indian Kathak, and at one point it moves into Latin Ballroom. Unusually, particularly near the start, there's live dialogue; which, as well as providing a nice contrast to the visual element, is amusing because somewhat surreal.

In the first part the emphasis is on individuals stating and advocating their favoured dish. As the show proceeds the dancers - thus the ingredients and cuisines - meet and mix, then get more stirred together. Finally, in the section called Marinade, there's fragmentation and change at a more fundamental, molecular, level.

It's not all exotic. About a third of the way into the piece a female dancer puts in a word for pork pies and even pork scratchings.

Alan Geary