This was the first opportunity for London to see the young Swede’s idiosyncratic choreography distinguished by its rapid-fire wit and absurd situations and they loved it. After all, this is home to The Goons and Monty Python!

The young dancers revelled in his clever dance, timing the jokes to a nano second in a work that could be précised as Kodo drummers meet Keystone Cops.

English National Ballet host an ‘Emerging Dancer’ award from within their ranks. Initial selection from audience feedback culminates in a surprisingly amicable showdown of the final eight.

Yonah Acosta’s top notch Basilio and Le Corsaire made him a predictable winner though for style and courage Nancy Osbaldeston was my favourite.

Her Paquita solo performed with ballerina quality found a surprising contrast in her solo, Sway; a sharp, sexy number to Marimba rhythms performed in a glitzy red leotard.

Her talent in reinventing her persona makes her a constantly interesting performer.

One of the Royal Ballet’s most experienced principals, Watson is not a natural Romeo his strength lying in complex characters like Rudolf in Mayerling while Hamilton, a newly promoted soloist with a thrilling technique and perfect proportions shares Watson’s dramatic talents.

It was an extraordinary performance. It had a decidedly shaky start as nearly an hour in nothing seemed to gel when, miraculously, in the balcony scene the tide turned. The floodgates opened and in the soaring lifts the ballet simply took off.

By the third act this remarkable pairing had reached heights and depths of passion that left the audience breathless making an utterly memorable performance.

And there was yet more drama at the Wells when Sergei Polunin returned for a second brief season of Men in Motion, an interesting programme that included fine performances of Nacho Duato’s Remanso and Russell Maliphant’s Two X Two.

Director, Ivan Putrov, showed his metal in Vestris written for Mikhail Baryshnikov, by Leonid Jacobson. His virtuoso technique secure, he delighted in the self deprecating wit that defines the character and delivered the brief solo with impressive charm.