 The arms holding the copper petals that formed the Olympic cauldron were part @-@ lowered , and fireworks set off behind ; when the smoke had cleared , a phoenix was seen above the flames . Take That then performed " Rule the World " . Darcey Bussell followed flying down from the top of the stadium in a guise of a phoenix and was joined by four male principal dancers from The Royal Ballet , Gary Avis , Jonathan Cope , Nehemiah Kish and Ed Watson and over 200 ballerinas , who proceeded to perform a dance called ' the spirit of the flame ' , after which the Olympic Flame was extinguished . 
