A new, award-winning adaptation of Tchaikovsky ballet - performed by the Swedish ballet company Cullbergballet and choreographed by Mats Ek - which received its UK stage premiere at this year's Edinburgh Festival. Starring Vanessa de Ligniere and Gamal Gouda.
Though Ek uses the familiar musical score, he has brought the story very much into the 20th century, with the fairies as a forties singing group and Carabosse, played as a male, being both a sinister doctor who presides at Princess Aurora's birth and the drug-dealing lover who introduces her to the hypodermic needle.