They’re back! Les Trocks – an all male dance troupe who pay homage to the world of Russian classical ballet whilst sending up dance styles with comic touches.

These skilled dancers, many from leading ballet companies, are not coarse parodists but artistes elevating low humour to high art. Subtle comedy arises from looks, gestures or out of character body movement whilst collisions or dancers in wrong positions provide broader spoofery.

These jokes could easily wear thin but for the fact they are supported by a strong disciplined technique from dancers who relish the opportunity to dance great female roles which would otherwise be denied to them.

There is no mistaking the technical skill that enabled them to capture the elegance of true ballerinas and to perform their demanding movements, especially en pointe.

The Black Swan Pas de Deux proved this point (pun intended) when more than 30 fouettes (360-degree one-legged spins) were brilliantly executed.

Their programme contrasted the classicism of Les Sylphides with the rustic charm of La Vivandiere and the Bacchanalian revels of Walpurgis Night.

But no evening would be complete without the Dying Swan being performed by Ida Neveasayneva – a truly legendry work of high camp.