After 5pm, Dance, Ballet

• Written by: Derek Deane

Choreographer Derek Deane's highly dramatic version of the Tchaikovsky ballet is performed in the round, featuring 60 swans which glide across the arena floor. Artist director Tamara Rojo performs the role of Odette/Odile in some performances.

Students present a performance of Les Sylphides, a short classical ballet with lyrical and romantic dances set to music by Chopin.

• Written by: Christopher Moore

A ballet choreographed by the company's artistic director Christopher Moore, based on Lewis Carroll's novel and set to music by Tchaikovsky.

Scottish Ballet presents a World Premiere from La La La Human Steps Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer Édouard Lock. Lock is renowned for his extreme, incandescent style of dance and his precise technique. His boldly challenging style has always attracted international attention. His creations are an arresting…

A classical ballet set to Mendelssohn's music, based on Shakespeare's romantic comedy full of magic and mayhem.

The Carmel in question is an elderly woman about to celebrate her 80th birthday, inspired by Artistic Director Natasha Gilmore's own grandmother and a two-week-long conversation she had with her. A blend of dance, theatre and film spanning remembrances of life, death, family and love. Presented by Barrowland Ballet and…

Peter Schaufuss presents his Shakespeare-inspired ballet drama in its UK premiere.

Moving through constellations of wood and Plexiglas pillars, reacting in sculptor Vera Röhm’s space Cesc Gelabert recreates Gerhard Bohner’s original concept highlighting elements of dance, visual arts and music while allowing them to remain autonomous. Bach’s 'Well-Tempered Clavier', interpreted by Keith Jarrett…

• Written by: Tchaikovsky

The Russian touring company performs Tchaikovsky's classical ballet, as choreographed by Edwardian ballet master Marius Petipa.

World premieres: California’s Helen Pickett – a former dancer for William Forsythe and now Resident Choreographer at Atlanta Ballet – is renowned for energetic yet poetic creations. James Cousins’s contemplative and gripping style has won him the inaugural New Adventures Choreographer Award. Martin Lawrance shares the…

Matthew Bourne's ballet inspired by La Sylphide, first performed in 1994, returns for a new Scottish tour. We follow the misfortunes of James, a young Scotsman whose taste for the wilder side of life brings him into the company of a strange and beautiful gothic fairy.

Love, duels and spectacular choreography combine with a dash of Spanish passion in one of the most beautiful and moving of all ballets telling the enchanting story of an eccentric, yet noble old gentleman and his dreams of a fantasy world full of brave knights and beautiful ladies.

New England's first professional ballet company hits Old Blightey, with artistic director Mikko Nissinen at the helm.

Learn more of classical ballet’s dance vocabulary: align your arabesques - multiply your pirouettes - engage with your entrechats - soar through the air with your grands jet�s - strengthen your core and develop your poise, style, grace, musicality, presentation and communication skills. And improve your French!

An overview of this unique weekend of dance, chaired by Scottish Ballet’s Artistic Director Christopher Hampson.

• Written by: Dominic Marshall

Emma Lister, Amy Drew, Lorien Slaughter and Brendan Bratulic alternate the roles of Swanilda and Franz, supported by a large cast of younger dancers. Choreographed by Janet Lewis and Dominic Marshall.

• Directed by: Elik Melikov
• Written by: Tchaikovsky

Elik Melikov directs Tchaikovsky's classical ballet, which tells the tragic story of a princess cursed by an evil sorcerer. Company soloists include Nadezda Ivanova, Andrey Shalin and Dmitry Smirnov.

Northern Ballet's traditional Victorian take on Dickens' festive tale.

This seminal work from American dancer and choreographer Glen Tetley was also the starting point of his now iconic choreographic style – combining modern dance with the elongated line and aerial bravura of ballet. It is a style he perfected through his professional career performing leading roles in the Martha Graham…

Mary Brennan, Dance Critic of The Herald, chairs a discussion with Scottish Ballet Artistic Director Christopher Hampson, Scottish Dance Theatre Artistic Director Fleur Darkin and Dance Base Artistic Director Morag Deyes.

The Rite of Spring Talk with choreographer Christopher Hampson.

• Written by: Tchaikovsky

The world-famous company, founded in 1958, performs Tchaikovsky's classical ballet, which tells the tragic story of a princess turned into a swan by an evil curse.

Fredrik Rydman fuses contemporary street dance with modern technology in this modern adaptation of Tchaikovsky's ballet of romance and heartbreak.