Haka meets Bharatanatyam at Sky City Theatre

It is an unlikely spectacle. A classical Indian dance company from Edinburgh meets the indomitable Mika's Torotoro dance troupe and the Tau Fuata Niue Dance Group for an explosive hour of cross-cultural performance.

Dance Ihayami consists, in travelling form, of four dancers: two very blond Scots, an Israeli and one Indian, company director Priya Shrikumar. One item, Scottish Indian Blend, is a pure classical movement performed to modern Celtic music.

But they are a serious company indeed - and there is far more than this superb oddity to marvel at.

The purists may squirm but it works.

Torotoro's two magnificent Maori warriors leap, stomp and spring with marvellous athleticism, weaving tales of dangerous journeys, challenges and battles, bloody victories and even cannibalism. Then they break dance.

The Niueans are so fierce there is genuine fear when they leap into the audience from the stage.

The Indian dancers manage a joyful contemporary lyricism contained within the faultless discipline of their art, and Indira Kemp, though Celtic by birth, is an exquisitely expressive Bharatanatyam star. Every so often this wonderful and hilarious amalgam pauses, the brown skins of the Torotoro stars glistening, the scarlet and gold and bejewelled costumes of Ihayami gleaming and the wild fringes of the Niueans quivering in formal tableaux.

United States of Celebration is a true amalgam of three very different cultures and dance styles, and not merely a programme with each company taking turns centre stage, though there are some individual company items.

The magic is in the sharing of space, rhythms, themes, of exploring the remarkable similarities to be found - the wide and grounded stance, the facial expressions, the expressive hand movements - and in celebrating the differences.

Mika makes his showman's presence felt at beginning and end, with exhortations to the audience to be welcome and free.

His costume looks like part of a sea-green piano accordion, wafting nauseously through the multi-ethnic riches.

But what, after all, is a singular outbreak of bad taste against a significant swathe of cultural sharing, integration and inclusion?

What: United States of Celebration: Haka meets Bharatanatyam
Where: Sky City Theatre