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Originally scheduled in 2020, the world’s most famous ballet, Swan Lake, performed by Scotland’s national dance company, returns in April.

Scottish Ballet presents two of the most exciting choreographers working today, in a striking double bill: Twice-Born, a brand new commission by Olivier Award-winning Dickson Mbi, and the UK premiere of Schachmatt (Checkmate) by Cayetano Soto touring in Autumn 2023 to Glasgow, Aberdeen & Edinburgh. 

Following the hugely successful mainland tour of A Streetcar Named Desire, and an exciting US premiere tour of The Crucible, Scottish Ballet will take the full production of Streetcar to Kirkwall, as part of the St Magnus Festival, and then to Stornoway on Lewis.

Scottish Ballet launches as a National Centre for Dance Health having delivered innovative work within this field since 2013, benefitting over 400,000 participants through a combination of classes, health resources, engagement programmes, online resources and research studies.

Scottish Ballet’s spectacular and much-loved production of The Snow Queen returns to the stage, after its sell-out tour in 2019. 

Scottish Ballet's new production of Coppélia, which has its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival this August, will test the boundaries of dance, theatre, music and film in a jaw-dropping new adaptation of the classic ballet, blending location and real-time film projection with live performance, accompanied by the Scottish Ballet Orchestra.

Scottish Ballet is set to bewitch London audiences at Sadler's Wells in June 2022 with its award winning production of The Crucible, based on the play by Arthur Miller and choreographed by  Helen Pickett. 

Now McKellen is to return to Hamlet in a world première at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performing with the Edinburgh Festival Ballet Company. It is sure to be one of the hottest tickets in the Fringe line up.

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s iconic ballet about a dysfunctional royal family, depicting shocking real events from 1889, was boldly created in 1978 and is now reimagined and redesigned by Scottish Ballet, in a sumptuous production that is at once both intimate and epic.

Scottish Ballet has announced the appointment of two new Non-Executive Directors to the Board: Scottish solicitor Nadhia Ahmad-Ali, and Ballet Black Founder & Artistic Director Cassa Pancho MBE. 

New Adventures has just announced that Associate Artist and Tony and Olivier Award Winning designer Lez Brotherston on his Order of the British Empire in The Queen’s New Year Honours 2022 for services to Dance and Theatre.

Looking for new ways to stream the performing arts content you love this winter? Check out what's available from on-demand platform Marquee TV!

Anyone who enjoys that unmistakable Singin’ in the Rain aesthetic, the razzle dazzle of Hollywood and dreamy Broadway scores will have a very happy hour watching Scottish Ballet’s Starstruck. Gene Kelly was originally asked to choreograph a work for Paris Opera Ballet in 1960, the piece, Pas de Dieux, was celebrated as a “breath of fresh air” at the time, and was widely acknowledged as bringing the “American style” to Europe. In this opulent re-imagining, new audiences can enjoy a slice of joyful nostalgia.

A firm family favourite, this magical adventure takes audiences on a journey through the worlds of a child's imagination. It follows wee Clara, as she drifts off to sleep on Christmas Eve and meets the dashing Nutcracker Prince, fights off the larger-than-life Rat King, and is welcomed into the Land of Sweets by the enchanting Sugar Plum Fairy. 

The Choreographer enters the studio. He flicks on the lights, sits down next to a piano, and begins preparing his new ballet. Simple steps turn into choreography, and he begins imagining what this new ballet could become.

The hugely popular Ballet Black is back with a mixed bill full of lyrical contrasts and beautiful movement - dance so thrilling, imaginative and rich that audiences demanded a return.

This autumn Scottish Ballet plans a return to stage and screen with Gene Kelly's ballet Pas de Dieux, given a new twist for its UK premiere.

Today, Scottish Ballet announces the Safe to Be Me Festival 2021 programme; a digital festival of dance to celebrate diversity, made possible with the support of Aberdeen Standard Investments. 

Today, Scottish Ballet unveils two new dance films created in collaboration with people living with Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis and dementia, as part of their creative engagement project Haud Close.

Scottish Ballet has announced the world premiere of two new dance films by company creatives Sophie Laplane and Nicholas Shoesmith, with the first being screened to celebrate International Dance Day on Thursday 29 April 2021.