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Peter Schaufuss Ballet: Swan Lake – review

4294 days ago
Guardian MusicColiseum, LondonIn most productions of Swan Lake, Odile's seduction of Siegfried climaxes with her iconic 32 fouetté turns: black sparks glinting from her tutu and her mocking eyes as she bamboozles the Prince into submission. In Peter Schaufuss's ... more info

Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review

4303 days ago
Guardian MusicSadler's Wells; Old Royal Naval College, LondonPlay Without Words was created by Matthew Bourne for the National Theatre's 2002 Transformation season, which set out to explore ways of attracting a younger crowd to the building. Bourne's production, a... more info

This week's cultural highlights: from Snow White to the Cribs

4373 days ago
Guardian MusicOur critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments belowOpening this weekTheatreThe Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeWith the ever... more info

Cinemas open their screens to opera and ballet

4436 days ago
Guardian MusicIncreasingly shown in 3D, classic stage works including Madam Butterfly are winning new audiencesIf there is a queue around the block leading into the local cinema this month, it might not be for the next in a chain of blockbuster action sequels. Sho... more info

Matthew Bourne - Montauk Variations

4462 days ago
DrownedInSoundMontauk Variations is an album that charges gracefully through piano and string compositions, using rotations to bring out an endless series of variances to seemingly unmoving patterns and occasionally flitting to overt virtuoso performance. Re... more info

Music Weekly podcast: to infinity and beyond with Adam Harper

4466 days ago
Guardian MusicThis week Alexis is joined by Dan Hancox and Ben Beaumont-Thomas for a heady mix of dance, throat singing … and even something called "granular synthesis". If music has such infinite variation and possibility, why do we spend so much time looking t... more info

TV highlights: 25/12/2011

4512 days ago
Guardian MusicDoctor Who | Downton Abbey | Absolutely Fabulous | Burn Notice: The Fall Of Sam Axe | Matthew Bourne's Christmas | Top Of The Pops 1976: Christmas Day SpecialDoctor Who 7pm, BBC1 An angel, a forest of Christmas trees, and a very good reason not to op... more info

Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! – New Adventures – review

4513 days ago
Guardian MusicSadler's Wells, LondonThe Nutcracker was choreographed by Lev Ivanov in 1892 for the Imperial Russian Ballet, with a score by Tchaikovsky. The piece was not well received; the story of an adolescent girl transported from a Christmas party into a drea... more info

When pop meets Prokofiev

4529 days ago
Guardian MusicMaddy Costa talks to the composers and musicians taking a genre-bending approach to pop-classical fusionsIn his book The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross suggests: "One possible destination for 21st-century music is a final 'great fusion': intelligent pop ar... more info

Matthew Bourne awakens Sleeping Beauty in 21st century

4565 days ago
Guardian MusicThe choreographer, known for his radical updates of classic works, is to create a new version of Tchaikovsky's ballet in which the princess will wake up in 2011 – and not fall in love at first sightAfter an all-male Swan Lake and the high-camp kits... more info

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