IT’S an undeniable and inescapable fact that the world faces challenges on every front, and a night with 2FacedDance and RUN, their triple bill of works by female choreographers Tamsin Fitzgerald, Rebecca Evans and Lenka Vagnerova, will leave you in no doubt of the fact.

Each of the three women has used an aspect of contemporary life as the jumping off point for their work – in 2Faced Artistic Director Tamsin Fitzgerald’s From Above, it’s the virtual world and its impact on identity that takes centre stage. A minimal set finds a trio of fluorescent tablets suspended on chains above the dancers who, as they come under the influence of the glowing screens, undergo subtle changes, suggesting the ways in which our exposure to social media creates different versions of ourselves. As the piece moves to its conclusion one tablet moves ominously lower until the dancer beneath is incapable of doing more than railing at its domination - a powerful exploration of the dominance of the virtual world into which we have been herded.

Another of the leitmotifs of the age, immigration, is put under the spotlight, literally, in Rebecca Evans’s duet, The Other. Using nothing more than hand held lamps, the intermittent lighting – sometimes direct, sometimes obscured – suggests the fear provoked in the half light by the unknown and unknowable, a sense that’s reinforced by a haunting soundtrack from Bachar Mar-Khalife.

Lenka Vagnerova’s Fallen Angels takes a wider and no less powerful perspective as she explores the nature of good and evil, explaining in the programme notes that ‘every human being is, from birth, drawn into a “fight” and has to choose in his life a path between good and evil’. It’s an unsettling – even uncomfortable – piece, sections of which lodge in the mind: the fallen angels’ struggle to emerge from cocoons especially, a biblically resonant serpentine horn and the final, strikingly dramatic few moments which underscore the central message that there is always a choice as one fallen angel stumbles and struggles to rise again.

A quintet of stunning dancers - Jason Boyle, Jack Humphrey, Louis Parker-Evans, Kai Tomioka and Ed Warner - delivered athleticism and grace in equal measure to drive home the overarching message uniting the three pieces, namely that, when faced with the option of fight or flight, you can always RUN.