“I will always be grateful to Bourne, because more than 20 years ago his dances made me laugh. Right from the start it was clear that he was going to bring an enormous amount of fun to the job of choreographer. His engaging irreverence was like nothing else in contemporary dance at the time.

“And when Swan Lake came along in 1995, with its menacing birds and tortured gay love story, I was bowled over by his ability to turn levity into something altogether darker and more moving.”

via The Times