In 2002 he danced in Onegin (Lensky) and La Bayadère (The Golden Idol), as well as ballets such as The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Por Vos Muero, and The Leaves are Fading.
His debut as Le Spectre de la Rose at the Royal Opera House was in May 2004[5] (which he also portrayed, as Nijinsky, in the 2005 film Riot at the Rite).
[7] He also appeared (as the artist) in the film installation The Butcher's Shop, commissioned by Kimbell Art Museum, in which Philip Haas recreated the 1582 Annibale Carracci painting of the same name, first seen in 2008 at the Sonnabend Gallery of New York.
[10] He returned to the stage without apparent lasting effects, and received notices for roles such as Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake and Lensky in John Cranko's Onegin, for which The Guardian praised his "captivating blitheness.
"[11] He danced Beliaev alongside Alexandra Ansanelli's Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country in her final appearances before retirement, in New York and Havana, and gave his own last performance with the Royal Ballet in May 2010 as the Prince in Ashton's Cinderella.
[15] In January 2014 he closed an edition of the BBC2 current affairs programme Newsnight by dancing a solo to a song by Johnny Cash from Affi by Marco Goecke.