Your writer admits to being more familiar with Space Invaders and other stalwarts of the ‘Golden Age’ of video games, but even he has known the lure of the Tomb Raider franchise, which along with new tech has taken the genre to dizzy heights.

Independent choreographer and dancer Larissa McGowan knows it too, and the thrill of rapid-fire thrust and parry has long informed her work, with its characteristic judders and jerks. Various aspects of gaming, including individual, multi-player and interactive, likewise inform Mortal Condition.

In an impressively lit performance space, decorated simply but effectively with vertical panels that suggest computer motherboards or indeed a video game cartridge, McGowan and Thomas Bradley deliver a powerful performance to tracks from Mike Patton’s experimental album Adult Themes for Voice. Album, maybe, but music, no, rather a hard-hitting sequence of sound — some would say noise — that runs the gamut from devastating bursts of static through tiny scrapes and liquid gurgles. The two dancers are stunningly synchronised to this apparently random score, with not a cue to be had in nearly 30 minutes of intense, absorbing movement.

A neat linking section adds Kialea-Nadine Williams to the ensemble, now to an electronic score from DJ TR!P. The movement continues to align strongly with the sound, now more epic, almost cinematic. The final sequence, for the three, brings Mortal Condition to an almost poetic conclusion.

Mortal Condition

Space Theatre

May 11-14