All his famous musicality, his intricate footwork, his storytelling clarity are on display, but you also see his impulse to disrupt his own carefully contrived symmetry, to start from a sidelong angle and see where it takes him.
In Les Rendezvous, for example, a romantic interlude set to the music of Daniel Auber, he's always plonking women down on the floor and finding ways for men elegantly to raise them.
Jasper Conran has provided new designs in gauzy tulle and enticing colours that make the piece look timeless rather than stuck in 1933.
A fierce and funny masterpiece to Mendelssohn's score, Marcelino Sambe brought authority and flashing fire to Oberon; Francesca Hayward's Titania has a petulance that melts into tenderness.
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