DAVID Bintley created his dance drama to Delibes' ravishing music in 1993, but like other choreographers who tackled the tale, his version came to be regarded as a commendable near miss.

He has revisited it and devised a substantial introduction to the main story with additional music from Delibes' La Source.

The central narrative – an anorexically thin tale about gods, a nymph and a shepherd, verges on the risible – but Bintley's framing device now anchors the mythical characters in contemporary reality, a vast improvement on the earlier version.

Bintley's clever amalgam of classicism, sentiment, wit and slapstick provides the dancers with a cornucopia of styles – passionate, tender, comic, dramatic or simply plain lovely to look at. But it requires the performers to be consummate actors as well as dancers.

Once again Bintley and his company triumph.