REPORT: Inside Richard Alston Dance Company
"We are quite close to the ballet end of the spectrum in modern dance. Ballet is very important to our dancers' training.
"They have a 90-minute class at the start of each day of the week. Three of those days it will be contemporary dance, two days ballet. Although we do no pointe training, overall it helps us create stronger dancers' bodies.
"We have 10 dancers, five male and five female '” in contemporary, we call them men and women whereas ballet refers to them as girls and boys.