Following a successful run at Sadler's Wells in London, the company's entrancingly beautiful work, Moon Water, visits Milton Keynes Theatre for one night only on Wednesday May 7 as part of a Dance Consortium Tour.

Moon Water was first seen in 1998 and has since been presented at festivals and venues all over the world to huge acclaim. It features a stunning on-stage work of art created by water flooding the whole stage. The production is minimal and beautiful with simple circles of design and movement, identical white silk costumes for men and women, and a watery black set that opens up to a panoply of mirrors.

Eventually the stage floor becomes a huge mirror reflecting not only dancing bodies but also the patterns of the white brush strokes of the set.

Set to movements from Bach's Suites for Solo Cello, performed by Russian cellist Mischa Maisky, Moon Water is based on the eastern practice of Tai Chi which gives it a natural rhythm and a visible pulse from the energy of breathing which propel one action smoothly towards the next. The title Moon Water derives from the Buddhist proverb Flowers in a mirror while moon and the water are both elusive and a description of the ideal state of a tai-chi practitioner Energy flows as water, while the spirit shines as the moon.

According to legend, Cloud Gate is the name for the oldest known dance in China, a ritual dating back some 5,000 years. In 1973 Lin Hwai Min adopted this classical name for the first contemporary dance company in any Chinese speaking community: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan.

Devoted to the arts and education, Lin founded the Department of Dance at Taiwan's National Taipei University of the Arts in 1983 and has given workshops in Cambodia assisting local dancers to organise teaching materials of Khmer classical dance for children.

After the show, there is a free talk for the audience in the auditorium.