Breakbone brutal, honest, beautiful.

You expect something edgy from a troupe calling itself Breakbone DanceCo., and, boy, do you get it.

This amazing ensemble is about as far removed from pretty, artful choreography as the human body can endure. These six women and one man fall to the floor with so much angry energy it hurts to watch. During one moment in "Logotype," on view this past weekend at Links Hall Studio, three of the women drop three others with such surprise and force you're astonished no one is hurt. But that punk intensity, that anti-pretty aesthetic only begins to describe the gutsiness and ferocious imagination of artistic director Atalee Judy, who also dances. Judy doesn't comment on contemporary culture so much as she throws it, sickeningly at times, in your face. Tinged with self-conscious angst, a little bit too drenched in automatic avant-garde, "Logotype" nevertheless assaults with issues idealistic young artists invariably address.

Judy does so with passion, wit, insight and breathtaking honesty. The oppression of women, suicide, the dehumanization of a computer society and genocide come up. Miraculously, she controls her topics and masterfully blends performance art and dance, even while it is harsh, frightening and the ultimate in alienation.

A piece in which one of a band of gas-masked robots tries to break free and fight conformity segues into its hard, pounding dance sections with natural ease. A slide and video show is skillfully meshed into the rest, providing evocative film strips in scary sync with the dancers. Judy, clad in a blood-red wig, starts in a solo piece dressed in stuffed teddy bears, and the program concludes with winged angels on a trip through the galaxies. Earlier, Elizabeth Lentz portrays a woman agonizingly flirting with suicide.

Their backs painted with scanner codes, the cast lines up while a laser beam crosses over them: humans as supermarket purchases. Breakbone blends video, choreography, drama, surreal imagery and rock music and says something important while doing so.