Corsham yielded a creditably large audience for one of the more challenging items in this year's programme - cellist Fran Bartlett and solo dancer Ana Eulate, at the Town Hall on Tuesday.

Bartlett was returning to home territory for the event; she is living in Barcelona but hails from Wiltshire. She studied at Trinity College of Music and now plays with the Academia Orchestra of the Liceu Opera and the contemporary dance company Compania Pendiente.

The event was billed as an exploration of Spanish and English-speaking cultures, and integration of music and dance into a theatrical presentation.

The evening kicked off with Bartlett playing Phoetus, the first of two pieces by Felipe Santiago Perez. This and Frozen were sound collages using a backing sound track.

Perhaps the soundtrack was a little too loud where I was sitting at the back of the hall because it was hard to distinguish the live cello performance from its accompaniment.

The venue did prove problematic; originally this dance event was intended for a revamped Pound Arts Centre with raked seating and the transference to the town hall resulted in very restricted viewing of the dance performance for anyone not in the front two rows, though the seats were re-arranged in the second half to help overcome the difficulty.

Eulate is a small, elegant and very athletic dancer with enormous energy and power. She joined Bartlett for James McWilliam's Striking in to Time and Elizabeth Norden's Tango Conversation.

While I couldn't always see what she was doing, the lighting was very effective and cast a series of mesmerising shadows on the wall behind.

Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem for Cello Alone performed with Like a big wall of Windows for solo Dancer made up the entirety of the second half.

Bartlett herself engaged in the dance theatre aspect of this performance, as well as playing cello. She covered her own blonde locks with a dramatic black wig and dressed in layers of black, and then, looking like a beautiful gothic doll, engaged in a dance with Eulate.

Bartlett is a consummate cello player and played the melancholy, moving requiem with remarkable power.