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• The Sleeping Beauty

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  The Sleeping Beauty fairy tale makes excellent source material for this ballet. With music from Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa’s choreography, Royal Ballet dancers Marianela Nunez and Vadim Muntagirov bring new life to this classic ballet.

• Don Quixote

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  Based on episodes from Miguel de Cervantes novel, this classic ballet is choreographed to music by Ludwig Minkus. This recording is of the first Royal Ballet production directed by Cuban-British choreographer (and former ballet dancer) Carlos Acosta.

• Swan Lake

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  One of the best known ballets of all time, this Royal Ballet production includes additional choreography from Liam Scarlett along with traditional choreography first established by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in 1895. With Tchaikovsky’s score, this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Starstruck

  Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet

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  Scottish Ballet revives a ballet originally choreographed by Gene Kelly for Paris Opera Ballet in 1960. A work that fuses jazz and ballet, this production features a style of ballet that was groundbreaking in Europe at the time.

• Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet

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  Originally choreographed in only five months in the 1960s, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet ballet was influenced by both Shakespeare and Zeffirelli’s 1960 film. Passionate and heartbreaking, this tragic ballet is danced to a score by Sergei…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is Ballet

  Dancing Anne of Green Gables

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  This documentary takes you behind the scenes at Ballet Jorgen in Toronto as they work to create choreography in a ballet adaptation of L.M. Montogmery’s classic Canadian novel.

• Victoria

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  If you’ve enjoyed one of the many films or television series about Queen Victoria, why not explore her life retold through ballet? Choreographed by Cathy Marston, this production was co-produced by Northern Ballet and The National Ballet of Canada.

• Coppélia

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  A comic ballet whose plot revolves around life-size mechanical dancing dolls, mistaken identity, and love.

• The Frederick Ashton Collection. Volume One

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  One of the most notable British ballet choreographers, this collection includes nine short ballets which range from comedy to romance to drama.

• Ibsen's Hedda Gabler

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  Hedda Gabler is translated from Ibsen’s classic play into ballet in this production created by Norwegian National Ballet, directed by Marit Moum Aune with music by Nils Petter Molvaer.

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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  Lewis Carroll’s absurd world is brought to life through dance in this production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. An co-production of The Royal Ballet and The National Ballet this is an excellent option to share with young ballet lovers.

• The Nutcracker

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  Often the first ballet that will come to mind for anyone even vaguely familiar with dance, no list would be complete without this holiday classic. Come for the tutus, stay for the sword fights with giant mice.