Before 5pm, Dance, Ballet

A showcase of talent with an adapted version of the ballet Alice In Wonderland.

Relationships come into focus in extracts from the canon of Scottish Ballet’s Founding Artistic Director Peter Darrell, and new collaborators James Cousins and Helen Pickett. Darrell’s poignant Five Rückert Songs embodies the feelings in Friedrich Rückert’s poetry on love, loss and loneliness with lingering steps and…

Watch the dancers warm up, rehearse and perform. Ages 5+.

Loosely based on Byron's poem of the same name, Le Corsaire is a thrilling tale about a pirate's love for a harm girl.

Take a page out of Degas' book and get to work sketching some ballet dancers from real life. Artist Heidi Wigmore leads the session with English National Ballet dancers. Some life drawing experience recommended, but not required.

• Written by: Marius Petipa

The company performs the pas de deux which is within the scene of the wedding celebration of Raymonda and the knight Jean be Brienne, just returned from the Crusades.

An appealing and dramatic production of Giselle set on an English country estate.

Professional principal dancers lead a cast of almost 100 young people, in a traditional staging of Tchaikovsky's classical ballet.

A classical performance of the festive favourite.

This is a filmed documentary on Jirí Kylián’s life, way of thinking and most significant creations. Shot in 2011 in The Hague, Prague, Monte Carlo and Paris with Sabine Kupferberg dancing as Kylián rehearses some of his works. Film directed by Christian Dumais-Lvowski and Don Kent.

The international competition comes to Glasgow for the first time, presented by the Royal Academy of Dance in association with Scottish Ballet and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The top young ballet dancers compete for shiny medals by performing choreography by Robert Binet.

Choreographed in 1932, The Green Table is known as Kurt Jooss’s masterpiece. In this film of a performance in the 1960s by Folkwang Ballet, the dancers include a young Pina Bausch. Portrait of Mary Wigman: at the end of the roaring twenties Mary Wigman provoked a real revolution in the world of dance.

These classes will have all the right ingredients for a fun and gentle dose of ballet. From barre work to centre practice, your muscles will be reminded in a gentle way to lengthen and turn out. Musicality, length of line and working to your abilities and beyond will leave you wanting more and feeling great. Wear…

• Directed by: Igor Zelensky
• Written by: Delibes

Choreographer Roland Petit's 1975 version of the Leo Delibes' ballet, is presented by the company led by artistic director Igor Zelensky. Among the principal dancers will be Sergei Polunin, Kristina Shapran, Semyomn Velichko and Erika Mikrticheva.

Ballet /contemporary dance company, MurleyDance, present their Double Bill programme with piece La Peau (Skin) by David Murley, and a new work by choreographer Gwyn Emberton. MurleyDance is a classical dance company with a comedic and theatrical edge to it. Based in London, the company are making their Edinburgh Fringe…

Natalia Kremen Ballet School based in Kensington is holding an annual performance with a participation of Guest Artists from the leading ballet companies. The show will be in two acts with 20 min interval. Since the inaugural performances, enrolment in the school has significantly increased. The upcoming performance is…

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…

A panel of emerging choreographers discusses the New Voices programme, hosted by Dance Base Artistic Director Morag Deyes.

Join Puck, Bottom, Titania, Oberon and the company for a magical evening of dance, breathtaking sets and beautiful costumes, with music by Mendelssohn and Brahms played live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia.

• Written by: Dreda Blow

The company's first ballet for children, based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a misfit duckling and the trials of growing up. Choreographed by Dreda Blow and Sebastian Loe.

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

The festive Christmas Eve tale of Clara and her magical nutcracker, set to Tchaikovsky's cheeringly familiar score.

Starlight 2013 is a marvellous mixture of tap, modern, ballet, acrobatic, lyrical and song to music from stage and screen performed by dancers of all ages.