NEDERLANDS Dans Theater is in effect two companies, both of which have been seen here in previous years.

This year it's the turn of NDT2, the younger section of the company, consisting of dancers who have completed their formal training but have not yet joined one of the international groups.

Needless to say, however, to have been invited to join NDT2 their technique is second to none, and their energy is boundless.

They open with two recent creations. Offspring by Lukas Timulak, formerly with NDT2 but now assimilated into the senior company, was premiered as recently as February.

It was inspired by the birth of Timulak's first child, and uses a compilation of varied music interspersed with sounds of the child in the womb. Celebratory and joyous in mood, it mixes duets with more frantic sequences for groups of up to nine dancers.

The second new piece is Gods and Dogs, choreographed by Jiri Kylian, who became the company's inspired artistic director in 1975 and led them to global acclaim. It is danced to a new composition derived from Beethoven and Bartok quartets.

Classical fuses with experimental modern dance in this serious work, which at a single viewing appears episodic, disjointed, and tends to outstay its welcome.

The evening ends on an explosive note. We saw Minus 16 here in April 2006,and fell for its infectious high spirits.

In essence, Ohad Naharin has simply cobbled together excerpts from some of his earlier works to form a stream of exhaustingly energetic movements to music embracing cha cha, mambo, bossa nova, acrobatics, breakdancing and traditional Israeli melodies.

At one point dancers remove sections of their clothing, at another they dance brief solos to their spoken autobiographies.

Then they pressgang patrons onto the stage to join in.

It's hard to imagine a more exhilarating, fun conclusion to a programme that erases memories of the senior company's lacklustre programme last year.