This year's show by the graduating students of Central School of Ballet, sponsored as usual by Scottish Power, consisted of 11 separate items aimed at demonstrating their skill and versatility. It was an evening that seemed to favour the girls, with the boys often reduced to partnering. Certainly in the opener, Yeneef, it was the well-matched trio of Natalie Cawte, Rachel Lawrence and Marina Sanchez-Garrigos who shone. Cawte was excellent again later on in Let Yourself Go, a sophisticated foursome to an Irving Berlin medley which also featured Emma Chadwick, overall the most impressive dancer of this group, swinging her long legs with relaxed precision, and Daniel Szybkowski from Sweden, the most mature and elegant of the boys.

Chadwick and Szybkowski also impressed in an excerpt from Rafael Bonachela's marvellous Linear Remains, as did Mayu Watanabe from Japan. It was the contemporary pieces like these that came off best. In divertissements from Napoli, the first of three classical offerings, it was asking a lot for the young dancers to master the unique style of the Danish choreographer August Bournonville - even top classical companies often fail, but they were enjoyably done, with Lucy Kemp the most successful at producing the required soft, relaxed outline.

The ball scene from Christopher Gable's Cinderella went well, as did a pas-de-six from The Sleeping Beauty, which, more than any other piece presented, showed the contrasting styles of the dancers involved. The choreography here was by San Francisco Ballet's Helgi Tomasson, but is much in the tradition of Petipa, and it was Rachel Lawrence who looked the most poised and classical.

The Popular Song from Ashton's light-hearted Façade, to William Walton's music, is a duet for two boys - in this case Paul Walker and Matthew Williams who had been doing well throughout the programme. Set in the carefree 1920s, two young prats dressed in boaters and striped blazers do a comical dance; the humour lies in the fact that they take it seriously.

The above is a quick skim over a very full and varied programme; there are others who deserve a mention - Rachael Gillespie and Mayu Watanabe in particular, but, all in all, we saw clearly that Central School of Ballet is still turning out accomplished dancers.