If ever there was a piece of ballet which was going to get kids and novice theatre-goers hooked on dance, then Scottish Ballet's Highland Fling is it....

First Position follows six young dancers through the rigorous training and competition stages of the Youth America Grand Prix, an international ballet competition for dancers aged 9-19, culminating in medals, scholarships to dance schools and even contracts with ballet companies worldwide.

There aren't many contemporary ballet companies with a billionaire heiress footing the bill, but New York's Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet hit that lucrative jackpot when it came to funding.

Saturday is the 'big day' - our documentary is being broadcast on BBC2 - and I have to say I am starting to get a tad nervous. It seems so long ago that we went through the whole filming process, and soon there it will be right across the United Kingdom.

How is Romeo and Juliet incessantly referenced? Let me count the ways...We love it because we've been in love, and we'll never tire of it because each time we become entangled in the web of desperate longing, we yearn for an ending that doesn't include poison, daggers and death.

Loaded with this much creative resplendence, one would expect to sit through The Sleeping Beauty with a Cheshire Cat grin, clapping like an over-enthusiastic seal and emoting enough blindly zealous praise to rival American Idol judges.

Picture this - next Wednesday evening you go to see one of the most famous and most performed operas of all time, starring some of the world's greatest opera singers and accompanied by one of the finest opera choruses and orchestras.