The world's hippest ballet had its premiere last week and the reviewers all stuck a single hand out and flipped it side to side in the universal gesture for so-so. "Carbon Life," the meditation on men, women and Jung scored by Amy Winehouse producer Mark Ronson, is apparently too hip for its own good.

Still, no one can deny that Pugh's costumes make ordinary humans look like human-bug hybrids of the future who will hypnotize the rest of us into serfdom. Shhh. There's one below.

For anyone who thinks that thing looks impossible to watch TV in much less pirouette, Pugh, a former dancer, told the Telegraph his version of the point shoe "may look restrictive, but it's made in such a way the foot can do everything that it needs to do." "Carbon Life" plays now until April 23. Head to the Royal's site for ticketing information.