The world premiere of Jardin Blanc opens the Gardner Arts Centre's new season.

Set in a "white, futuristic garden landscape" lit by dazzling fibre-optics and populated by dancers in wearable sculptures, this should be full of sights to delight and bewilder. But, for those familiar with the work of Yolande Snaith, it's unlikely to hold too many surprises.

A multi-award winning choreographer who has spent twenty years at the cutting edge of contemporary dance, Snaith is renowned for working within the sort of surreal landscapes that can usually only be accessed via a rabbit hole.

"My work," she says, "is fundamentally about constructing, evoking and exploring imaginary worlds which the performers inhabit."

Drawing on literature, history, philosophy and sociology, Snaith's choreography is as diverse as 1989's Lessons In Social Skills, in which starched matrons inserted their heads into chamber pots, 2002's Very Yellow, a piece for young children set in a regal kingdom of shades and sounds, and her mesmerisingly sinister work for the 1997 film Eyes Wide Shut, which prompted director Stanley Kubrick to describe her as "a true original".

Yet, for all this variety, her dances always share the disquieting magic of a post-modern fairytale.

Having previously trained in visual art at the Wimbledon School of Art and Design, when Snaith formed her own company (Dance Quorum, later to become Yolande Snaith Theatredance) in 1990, the intention was always to work across other forms. She has no qualms in admitting that "for me, choreography is definitely a visual as well as a physical process".

Hence Jardin Blanc is pitched far beyond contemporary dance fans to 'anyone who has an interest in visual art, fashion and interior design', and pre-show excitement is focused less on the movements of the five dancers, more on the interdisciplinary collaborations. These include writer Adele Shank, composers Jean-Jaques Palix and David Coulter, set/garden designer Miranda Melville and visual artist Sharon Marston.

Starts: 8pm, Tickets: £11/£9, Tel: 01273 685861