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Ballet Nights is more than an evening of party pieces: it showcases emerging talent alongside older favourites and, in the case of this first Scottish outing, has an eye to local tradition.

In a triple bill of contrasting choreography, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo tackle everything with aplomb.

 In a fascinating and challenging triple bill, Czech National Ballet deliver first rate performances.

A shimmering smorgasbord of some of today’s most exciting international dancers, who performed pristine works by Petipa.

The Australian Ballet's impressively-danced Kunstkamer is a work of astonishing scale, originality, and warmth, choreographed by Paul Lighfoot, Sol León, Marco Goecke and Crystal Pite.

Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rep 1 delivers a magnificent first installment of their 2020-2021 virtual season.

Marking a century after Vaslav Nijinsky’s last solo performance, Marco Goecke’s ballet gives a new dynamic to the name and story of the legendary Polish-born Russian dancer.

As well as keeping the musical, choreographic and theatrical treasures of the Ballets Russes alive, En compagnie de Nijinsky reignites the company’s avant garde-ist vision.

NDT 2’s 'microcosm' is on display at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele with a mixed bill of four works created for these young talents

Everything Pite choreographs turns to gold and when Young is also involved it’s an especially rich vein.

Shut Eye (Lightfoot & León) is like an alternating current. Woke Up Blind (Goecke) is entertaining and vulnerable. Pite's work hits the rythmic nail on the head. You want to freeze-frame Pite's dancers, snap a picture and hang it on the wall.

Organised by Berlin State Ballet audience’s darling, the principal dancer Polina Semionova, the gala Polina & Friends and its stellar cast literally left the house roaring from enthusiasm.

Just as Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Le Sacre du Printemps opened up new musical horizons for dance at the start of the 20th century, Ballett Zürich’s Stravinsky evening sees two leading modern choreographers revive these works.

It is an excellent start for the Stuttgart based company, Gauthier Dance,  for the first time in Berlin, with Nijinsky by Marco Goecke.

NDT2's triple bill of contemporary ballet that featured works by Marco Goecke, Johan Inger and Alexander Ekman in Alkmaar drew an uneven reception.

NDT's main company is back in Berlin, at the House of the Berliner Festspiele, with works by four aces of contemporary choreography. More classically abstract works are successfully paired with ones for the digital-literate.

Newcomers Imre van Opstal and Marne van Opstal present their first work alongside established choreographers as Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot. A programme where new and old, humoristic and dark meet.

This was a terrific performance by a world class troupe of dancers.

Choreographers Marco Goerke and Edward Clug take Stravinsky’s two most familiar ballet works to a whole new level.

The National Ballet of Canada opens the Danse Danse festival in Montreal with a triple bill of minimalist neoclassical works.

Netherlands Dance Theatre present Kylián's Heart's Labyrinth, Goecke's Hello Earth and new work by Lightfoot and Leon, Stop-Motion, in Programme III at Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht.

The Kings of the Dance program offers audiences a unique experience: a chance to see the top men in ballet letting it all out on one stage. This year, Opus 3 maintained the program’s reputation at New York City Center.