DANCE: PICK OF THE WEEK

Palermo Palermo to 20 Feb Sadler's Wells, London EC1

After performances today and tomorrow of her celebrated Nelken (where the drama of her dancers is supplemented with acrobats, Alsatian dogs and a stage full of pink carnations), Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal completes its rare London season with four showings of a work never seen in Britain before, Palermo Palermo - named for the Sicilian city where she created it.

This time, dust and debris cover the performing area: Bausch clearly likes to make things difficult for herself and her whole-hearted team. In that setting of a city in ruins, the men and women of the company come and go in a series of gripping encounters. Promised in the course of this action is the suggestion of a search for intimacy, even love, revealed in snatched moments of tenderness and resolution.

Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1 (0870 737 7737) `Nelken', today & tomorrow, 7.30pm; `Palermo, Palermo', Thur to 19 Feb, 7.30pm & 20 Feb, 6pm; pounds 15-pounds 48