Artiste: Trey McIntyre

The ballet culminates with fouettés, bravura leaps from the oversized ensemble and a rousing finish with all 44 dancers onstage. It was an exuberant end to an intelligent, satisfying production, both of thought and movement.

An exciting London season closes with a glimpse of where ballet is headed, San Francisco style. 

There is a kind of purity to Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem, and a very human sense of longing and loss.