The dancers, kitted out in kilts for the production of the romantic ballet classic La Sylphide, immediately felt right at home in New Zealand's most Scottish city.
"The kilts are made in Scotland and they're really heavy," Braun said yesterday.
"When you're trying to do fast turns and leaps they slow you down heaps, so you have to put quite a bit of extra oomph into it."
The company will perform the oldest surviving version of La Sylphide.
The original 1832 version was created by Italian choreographer Filippo Taglioni for his daughter, acclaimed ballerina Marie Taglioni.
However, that version was lost in time and only Danish choreographer August Bournonville's 1836 La Sylphide now survives.
La Sylphide is at the Regent Theatre tonight and tomorrow.
