This year's company of 14 exceptional dancers perform specially-commissioned works by Alesandra Seutin and Sita Ostheimer, plus a restaging of Akram Khan's seminal work 'Vertical Road'.

See where dance is now and where it may go next. VERVE is the internationally-touring postgraduate company of Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD).

0:00:00 - 'The Unbearable' by Sita Ostheimer
0:19:54 - 'Blackbird' by Alesandra Seutin
0:46:33 - 'Vertical Road' by Akram Khan