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4/5 Surreal sets and exuberant lighting powerfully underscore this engaging trio of love stories

Royal Ballet principal Joseph Sissens emphatically turns the spotlight on leading dancers of colour from around the world

As the Royal Ballet’s newly minted principal, the dancer is on a mission to challenge the industry’s underlying racism from the inside. He discusses his first steps – and the role of his dreams

This flawed take on the French ballet lacks any tension, and Carmen’s fate feels dully inevitable from the start

Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés

The Havana-born superstar may have retired from dancing nearly a decade ago, but he has no plans to slow down. Currently the artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he talks to Charlotte Cripps about ballet and Black Sabbath, middle-aged spread, and his plans to bring ballet to the masses

The famed company dissolved in 1996, so how best to bring it back? With new and classic works from the choreographer’s Rolodex of international talent – and by changing the culture of the art form

2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam

Shechter’s young dancers thrill in his hellish vision of England. Elsewhere, emerging choreographers from Brno to Birmingham showcase short works