AN unprecedented show combining the strength and power of workmen with the precision and talent of tap dancing opens at Alexandra Theatre next week.

Tap Dogs, from Monday until Saturday, November 2, started with six men from an Australian town.

Olivier Award-winning choreographer Dein Perry headed the team with designer and director Nigel Triffit and composer Andrew Wilkie and created Tap Dogs, 'a 75-minute re-invention of tap for the new millennium'.

Tap Dogs has toured the world and won 11 international awards.

Performances are at 8pm Monday to Thursday, 6pm and 9pm Friday and 5pm and 8pm Saturday.

Tickets cost £9.50-£21.50 plus concessions from the ticket hotline on 0870 607 7544.