24 May-8 June: world premiere of Wayne McGregor's first narrati ve ballet - based on Audrey (The Time Traveller's Wife) Niffenegger's libre tto, composed by Gabriel (The English Patient) Yared. Coupled with Balanch ine's glorious four-movement white...

Richard Alston Dance Company + Q...

4-8 June 2013, Coppélia, Birmingham Hippodrome. Peter Wright’ s enchanting production of this joyous and witty ballet about a girl whose boyfriend two-times her with a doll is a celebration of love, with a spark ling score by Delibes, designs by...

The Forsythe Company UK PREMIERE Stud y #3 Tuesday 18 - Thursday 20 June Tickets: £12 - £27 William Forsytheis recognised as one of the world’s...

25-26 June: One of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most fascinatin g choreographic works, Drumming, returns to Sadler’s Wells in full after part one was performed in De Keersmaeker’s celebrated Steve Reich Evening i n 2008. A pioneer of minimalist...

3-7 July: Returning to London for the first time in 30 years,America's Boston Ballet presents two high-class programmes reflecting a ce ntury of greatest choreographers from Nijinsky to Wheeldon.. Programme 1 - 3, 4, 6 (eve)...

11-14 July: Roland Petit’s Coppelia performed by Moscow's Stani slavsky Ballet, with the promised appearance of Sergei Polunin. The Moscowcompany, directed to Igor Zelensky, a former Royal Ballet principal gues t and partner to Darcey Bussell in her...

16-17 July, Programme 1; 1st of 3 programmes from the Bolshoiveteran star troupe directed by Andris Liepa, who debuted in London last year to very mixed effect. CLEOPATRA - IDA RUBINSTEIN An original idea by Andris Liepa this exquisite production...

Carlos Acosta, Classical Selection, London Coliseum
 Tuesday 30 July - Sunday 4 August 2013 (no performance Thursday 1 August) Acosta , celebrating his 40th year, is joined by some of his past dance partners and stars of The Royal Ballet...

Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star...

Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star...

Birmingham Royal Ballet - 2 fantastic classical productions, T he Slseping Beauty and The Nutcracker (certainly the best in the UK). 25 September opens The Sleeping Beauty UK tour, then a mixed programme headli ned by Penguin Café - both...

1-19 October, Cirque Éloize iD. Jeannot Painchaud presents a s how crackling with daring and modernity. The brand new creation iD is a ble nd of circus arts and urban dance: b-boying, breakdance, hip hop and more . The scene is set in the heart of...

9-12 Oct: Atomos is the newest full-length work by Wayne McGreg or. Imagining the indivisible order created through uncuttable structures a nd interwoven with an architectural manipulation of bodies, the choreograp hy of Atomos grows from the form...

English National Ballet national UK tour of a new production ofa rarely seen 19th century classic, the pirate romp Le Corsaire, opening17 Oct Milton Keynes,...

22-26 Oct: the leading contemporary dance company perform two n ew works, by Ashley Page (with Aphex Twin and Mark-Anthony Turnage providi ng music) and Barak Marshall, plus Rambert director Mark Baldwin's stylishComedy of Change. Booking: http://...

30 Oct-3 Nov: UK premiere of Hofesh Shechter's Sun, his new wo rk following the sensational quality and success of Political Mother. The w orld is perfect. From the darkness of Shechter’s emotive and often angry wo rld emerges a bright white light...

18-23 Nov: Stuttgart Ballet, long associated with the ex-Sadle r's Wells Ballet choreographer John Cranko, performs his The Taming of theShrew, set to Scarlatti music (22...

18-23 Nov: Stuttgart Ballet, long associated with the ex-Sadle r's Wells Ballet choreographer John Cranko, performs his The Taming of theShrew, set to Scarlatti music (22...

27 Nov-5 Jan: Raymond Briggs' immortal story about a boy and a snowman brought to the stage in a children's show that has been a Christmashit for 15 years. Howard Blake's music includes the song "Walking in the a ir", choreography is by Robert...

27 Nov-1 Dec: The master of American contemporary dance, Mark Morris, brings seven works never before seen in the UK, divided into two programmes. 27, 29 Nov, 1 Dec: Programme A includes The Muir, an evol ution of the graceful yet powerful Cease...