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  1. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick

    Principal dancer Edward Watson at the barre (with Lauren Cuthbertson in the mirror behind him)

  2. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick

    The dancers are put through their paces every morning

  3. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick

    Two dancers perform arabesques

  4. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick

    The Time Out audience watch the dancers in their daily class

  5. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick

    A dancer executes a grand jeté

  6. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick
  7. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick

    Royal Ballet soloist Akane Takada

  8. Royal Ballet Open Class (© Nick FitzPatrick)
    © Nick FitzPatrick

    First artist Fernando Montaño and soloist Eric Underwood show off their jumps

Time Out in Covent Garden, in pictures: behind the scenes with the Royal Ballet

We took a small group of lucky readers on an exclusive tour of the Royal Opera House, where they met some of the country's most talented dancers

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