Jonathan fronts Alston company with new Lazy River and Body & Soul

Artistic director Alston's latest work Lazy River is a homage to American songwriter Hoagy Carmichael, composer of Lazy River and Riverboat Shuffle, among other iconic songs in the Great American Songbook.

Body & Soul is a new work by Martin Lawrance, who was a dancer with RADC from its founding in 1994 until his retirement in November 2007. The piece, for six dancers, is set to Schumann's Dichterliebe for piano and tenor and will be performed live.

The Richard Alston Dance Company (RADC), known for placing a special emphasis on music and the deep magic it can conjure together with dance, sometimes presented in live performance.

For the second year running, Richard Alston Dance Company has been nominated for the Company Prize for Outstanding Repertoire (Modern) in the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards and additionally, this year Company dancer Jonathan Goddard, who is from East Sussex, won the National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer.

RADC is one of Brighton's favourite visiting companies and a hero's welcome from the audience will await Goddard's return to action on the Dome stage floor.

Also on the tour programme will also be Richard Alston's Fingerprint, Nigredo and Gypsy Mixture, as well as Brink by Martin Lawrance.

Premiered last March, Fingerprint is set to Bach's Capriccio and Toccata in D Major, performed live onstage by long-time Alston collaborator, pianist Jason Ridgway.

Nigredo, which was created for a 2007 project with the Society for the Promotion of New Music, and set to piano music by British composer Simon Holt, is a series of intimate and intricate duets.

Gypsy Mixture was choreographed in 2004 and set to music by Balkan singers remixed by DJs from all over the world, and will be a popular revisit to a work already brought to Brighton by RADC in a recent previous year.

Lawrance's Brink, which premiered in 2007, is set to quirky score of Japanese tango music played on the accordion.

RADC is one of the country's most popular and successful companies, touring nationally and internationally each year, and are based at The Place in London, a prominent centre for contemporary dance.