Photograph by Sarah Ainslie

"Deborah Bull has never looked more profoundly at ease with her own dancing and the two other Royal members were equally a revelation - Jenny Tattersall's airy capriciousness, Peter Abegglen's slow burning power. But they were easily matched by Davies's own dancers - Matthew Morris with his amazingly sly supple line and Gill Clarke whose dark thrumming energy reached a shattering intensity in her central solo." (Judith Mackrell, The Guardian, July 17 1999)