Today’s dance audience is a demanding one, constantly searching for references to our everyday existence, trawling the mind of the choreographer for a meaning, a truth, or something to keep our cogs whirling.

But for those dance purists interested in the finer aspects of contemporary ballet, here is a company to sit back, cast all else aside and revel in the sheer artistry and lucid beauty of these dancers.

The 17-22-year-old young guns of NDT2 – the little sister company to Nederlands Dans Teater – move with magical grace and an innocence that only inhabits dancers this young, as they revel in their new-found passion to be on stage.

They expel a shining naivety as they relish in the choreography by Jiri Kylian in the opening piece, Sleepless, made up of fluid, slinky movements with quick twitchy flicks and sparky jumps. We see dancers duetting, gracefully gliding into one another and through a flexible wall.