Enjoy Strictly dancing?

Deciding which ballet to see next? Here are our recommendations, depending on which of the three ballets you enjoyed the most.

Paquita

If your favourite of the three pieces performed was Paquita, we'd recommend you get yourself a ticket to one of Birmingham Royal Ballet's spring performances of Swan Lake. Sharing both Paquita's choreographer Marius Petipa and Producer Galina Samsova, the full-length classic also features joyous performances and tremendous sets and costumes. Tickets for the Company's performances of the ballet in Birmingham are already on sale, along with tour dates at the Lowry, Salford, and the New Theatre Oxford, while shows in Belfast go on sale xxxx.
If you fancy something slightly darker, but still from Samsova and Petipa, try Giselle in summer 2008. An intense tale of love and betrayal, the ballet also has input from Sir Peter Wright, responsible for may of Birmingham Royal Ballet's classical productions, including The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Coppélia. Performances at Birmingham Hippodrome are on sale now, with tour dates to follow in the new year.
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Nine Sinatra Songs

If it was the swing and jazz-fuelled character studies of Nine Sinatra Songs that stood out for you, we cannot recommend The Shakespeare Suite too highly. Like the ballets in Strictly dancing, this piece forms part of a programme of three lively one-act works, entitled All that jazz. To the sound of the legendary Duke Ellington, The Shakespeare Suite presents a selection of the Bard's most popular characters. From the Romantic joy of one of Romeo and Juliet's first encounters, through the comedy squabbling of Kate and Petruccio (The Taming of the Shrew) to the tempestuous paranoia of Hamlet, this piece presents a broad spectrum of emotion just as Nine Sinatra Songs did - this time with a live jazz orchestra!
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Daphnis and Chloë

If the tale of the young man out to rescue his sweetheart proved a highlight, try The Orpheus Suite. Also part of 'All that jazz' (see above), the piece tells the tale of the Greek Hero Orpheus, and his quest to reclaim his wife Eurydice from the land of the dead. One of the Argonauts that accompanied Jason on his travels, and saved them from the sirens by combatting their song with his own, the brave musician tries to charm his way into even more dangerous territory, all in the name of love. With more contemporary designs than Daphnis and Chloë, but still retaining the language of ballet, The Orpheus Suite tells a story of similar self-sacrificing devotion with even more supernatural mystery.
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