Dance, Ballet

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.

Central Scotland Ballet present their fantastical dance showcase.

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.

Contemporary ballet made in collaboration with designers to create an immersive experience inside a 1920s US Speakeasy. Dancers play with prohibition and fiddle with fashion in this sometimes glamorous and sometimes dark voyage into their inner worlds.

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.

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

Discover the sheer artistry of the Russian Cecchetti style and the exciting footwork of great Dane Auguste Bournonville. This new class, taught by one of the finest ballet teachers in Scotland, will stretch your classical technique, enhance your musicality and remind you of the joy of dancing.

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…

The dancers of The London Ballet Company take ballet out of its box with their novel and innovative vision to make ballet more approachable and current, which find them developing a story with their own unique slant.

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: 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.

• Directed by: Natalia Ryzhenko
• Written by: Natalia Ryzhenko

Ask most people to name a ballet, and Swan Lake will doubtless be near the top of the list. There's a reason it has endured-as well as boasting a score by Tchaikovsky, it also tells the timeless tale of Prince Siegfried, who falls in love with the beautiful Swan Queen, Odette. The fable's soaring climax, which sees the…

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.

Johann Strauss Orchestra Rainer Hersch conductor Charlotte Ellett soprano Johann Strauss Dancers in period costumes A new show bringing you the best of the Viennese tradition, starring the Johann Strauss Dancers in glorious costumes of the period. Dancers whirl in graceful unison with billowing gowns and distinctive…

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.

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…

Christopher Hampson and Jane Pritchard discuss this seminal work.