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John Cranko's balletic take on Pushkin approaches its 100th performance by The Royal Ballet, opening this run with a magnificent Tatiana from the Russian star. 

Marianela Núñez was in her element as the huntress in Ashton's charming ballet. 

Two complex works of genius, showing different aspects of the suffering of women, bring together The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet to honour Sir Kenneth MacMIllan 

The Royal Ballet’s 50th anniversary revival of Balanchine’s abstract ballet Jewels is a showpiece displaying a company of dancers in celebratory form. 

Was she – or wasn’t she – the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia's last tsar who had survived the massacre of her family in 1917? Natalia Osipova made you believe she was. 

The Royal Ballet premieres Christopher Wheeldon's Strapless, and performs two other ballets by the choreographer for the first time.

Many ballet fans do not find galas particularly enjoyable. We can admire our favourite dancers performing acrobatic solos, numerous fouettés and famous variations, but little space is left for the dancers to lose themselves in the roles they are playing, not to mention the limitations in terms of scenography and lighting.'Carlos Acosta – A Classical Selection' is a nice exception.

With a programme inspired by neuroscience and fairytale, the Royal Ballet shows that one is not born, but rather, becomes a woman.

Internationally-renowned dancers perform a diverse range of choreography for the Russian Ballet Icons Gala's tenth anniversary.

With such a fine couple as Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares leading the drama, John Cranko's Onegin touches the heart at The Royal Ballet. 

Christmas must be nearing when that traditional fare of sparkle, excitement and the surging score of The Nutcracker bursts in full flood onto the world’s ballet stages. Originally created in 1891 by Marius Petipa for the Mariinsky Theatre, the ballet has become the annual bread-winner for most companies (albeit in various versions), guaranteeing full houses and happy customers.

Swan Lake is so iconic that describing it in a review seems superfluous. The idea of it, moreover, so dominates people’s perceptions of ballet, mine included, that before Monday night’s performance I was worried that I would be lost for fresh words, silenced by the weight Tchaikovsky and Petipa’s swans have acquired in the 117 years since they first fluttered across the stage in St Petersburg.

The Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova is a true legend in the world of classical ballet. Her dramatic interpretations plumbed deep into the human soul and revealed its full gamut of emotion and poetic beauty.