Light fantastic: Rambert Dance Company

Eternal Light is Mark Baldwin's first major work for Rambert since he choreographed the science-inspired Constant Speed three years ago Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Judith Mackrell, who gave Eternal Light three stars, enjoyed its 'moving dialogue between earth and spirit', but described the choreography as 'both gifted and cursed with a vein of deep eccentricity' Photograph: Tristram Kenton

'Exquisite, tacky, baffling, tear-jerking - you could throw almost any adjective at Mark Baldwin's Eternal Light and make it stick,' wrote Judith Mackrell Photograph: Tristram Kenton

For Mackrell, 'the music is both accessible and danceable' but 'the sweetness of Goodall's sound presents a serious problem for the piece, teetering as it does between moving sentiment and manipulative sentimentality' Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Mackrell was distracted by an 'extravagantly inappropriate' symbol in the piece: 'the dazzling lines of crystal crosses that hover over the stage during the singing of the poem On Flanders Field' Photograph: Tristram Kenton

Rambert Dance Company perform Eternal Light at Sadler's Wells until November 15 2008 Photograph: Tristram Kenton