Before 9pm, Dance

A fun introduction to an exciting range of dance styles, including street and commercial jazz, contemporary dance and ballet.

Learn techniques including popping and locking.

• 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.

African Soukous music and dance by the singer from the North West.

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.

A scaled down version of the BBC's smash hit show, with Oxford-based dignitaries and celebrities donning their dancing shoes for a six week tuition period, culminating in this show where they demonstrate how well (or poorly) they got on. All in aid of Vale House.

• 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.

BPM Dance Academy's debut show featuring talented street dancers. This is a youth production.

A street dance class for people of all ages and abilities.

• Written by: Tchaikovsky

One of the world's best-loved and most approachable ballets is coming to UK theatres courtesy of Moscow Ballet La Classique, a company founded in 1990 utilising ballet dancers from the leading theatres of the CIS Countries and the Bolshoi, Kirov and Ballet Theatres of Kiev and Odessa. For anyone unfamiliar with the plot…

Friendly student night offering chart anthems and the latest dancefloor fillers.

• Written by: Henri Oguike

Acclaimed choreographer Henri Oguike who renowned for his musicality, conjures up a baroque fantasy with six dancers who blend theatricality with ultra-cool groves of modern seduction.

A variety of styles including jive, waltz and Lindy Hop.

• Directed by: Cathy Marston
• Written by: Vivaldi (music)

The sixteen-strong company led by artistic director Cathy Marston, presents its latest work which draws upon the tale of the state-murdered Swiss woman Anna Goeldi, who was tried as a witch in the 1780s, and whose name was only cleared by the Swiss government, in 2008.

DJ Joshua Jones spins pop, R&B and dance anthems.

Various styles including ballet, lyrical, tap, Greek and modern jazz.

Three dancers, accompanied by an original music score, in a vibrant reimagining of some of the most radical depictions of the Northumberland countryside, captured on canvas by the great English landscape painter, William Turner.

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

Resident DJs play R&B and dance.