Birmingham Royal Ballet - On Their Toes!

Grosse Fuge opens with four men and four women dancing in separate groups, apparently disinterested in the other. As the music becomes more and more complex so does the dance and it becomes clear the dancers are in fact performing for each other. Finally they become four couples, dancing together in celebration.

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a crazy tale of a highkicking stripper and a happy-go-lucky hero who literally has to dance for his life. Created as part of the world-famous Rodgers and Hart musical comedy On Your Toes, which follows the adventures of a young American hoofer who joins a famous Russian ballet company, its humour and vitality provide sparkling entertainment.

Theme and Variations is a joyous ballet, with its thrilling Tchaikovsky music, glittering silver and blue tutus and sumptuous décor, it has delighted all over the world. Described as 'a compressed Sleeping Beauty', it combines the excitement and theatricality of the Imperial Russian ballet with grace and elegance.