When the final whistle went 15 minutes later, they embraced, shouted and danced in celebratory circles.
American Ballet Theatre London ABT haven't danced in the UK for 15 years but they are scrambling to fill the gap with this short season.
Michelle told me that when her daughters found out they were related to Big Bird, they squealed and danced around the kitchen.
Giselle, created in 1841, is a Romantic-era ballet, and these are usually danced "after the beat", as if in answer to the music.
The following day – as visions of financial security danced through our heads – I'd just bitten into a slice of Bleecker Street Pizza when an unfamiliar 212 number rang through my phone.
The US troupe came to Cuba at the invitation of 89-year-old Alicia Alonso, who danced with the ABT in the 1940s and 50s before returning to her homeland to found Cuba's National Ballet.
Although he spent his first 24 years in Russia – born in St Petersburg, trained in Moscow, danced with the Kiev – Ratmansky has become an artist defined not just by his experience, but by his capacity to take risks.
And with an equerry and friends in tow, she danced the Lambeth Walk and the Hokey Cokey from Buckingham Palace to Park Lane, by way of Parliament Square.
The revolution I was part of when I took durophet and danced to Northern Soul is still happening, even if the revolution of the donkey jacket and sideburns era is no longer possible.
He has danced Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake before, but looks forward to returning to the role with greater insight.
Kelly, whose inner ear is listening to the music to which he had danced with a Scottish lass (Cyd Charisse), doesn't hear a word the self-absorbed Stewart is saying.
