Three stars for Carlos Acosta at Sadler's Wells

Dancing to Debussy’s iconic score, all Acosta has to do is stretch a leg to evoke a sense of physical excitement

Margot Fonteyn: In her footsteps

As a BBC drama explores the life of Margot Fonteyn, a former ballerina asks whether British ballet can keep pace with the modern world

Nice and teasy does it for a new breed of fan

Burlesque is attracting some surprising followers to its world of glitzy trash and feathers – in Glasgow

Svapnagata Festival

For fans of Akram Khan, this festival he curated with Nitin Sawhney offers a sense of his choreographic journey

Nation

God is dead, says the National’s Christmas show, but this prissy Pratchett adaptation never comes alive

Video: How to do Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' dance

Seventy million fans have watched the YouTube clip of the undoubted dance of the year. But how hard is Single Ladies?

BBC abandons ballet with deformed rapist Pope

The Spirit Of Diaghilev from Sadler’s Wells had been announced as one of the highlights of the Christmas schedule

Play/ Southern Comfort

Winlock is funny and convincing as a driven dancer constantly putting the men onstage with her firmly in their place

A Life in the Day: Carlos Acosta

The Cuban-born dancer on the rhythms of life in London and Havana

Dancer to have epileptic fit on stage

Arts Council-funded performance during which epileptic dancer will attempt to induce a seizure condemned as 'freakish'

Gnosis

Akram Khan may have let go of some of the sharpness of his early youth, but in its stead is a subtle ease of expression

The 50 best Christmas shows

The finest theatre and dance for December, from the Nutcracker to A Christmas Carol, from The Lion King to Aladdin

Wayne McGregor's new Royal Ballet work

Balanchine and Stravinsky’s collaboration Agon, Glen Tetley's Sphinx and Limen make up the triple bill at Covent Garden

E=mc2

It’s not an alluring title, but Bintley's ballet itself is alive with the inherent physicality of the iconic equation

Wendy Houstoun

Houstoun seems to be showing us that dance is not necessarily reserved for the young: she is a survivor no matter what the odds

The Rite of Spring

In a shocking sequence the men, trousers down, roll in the earth, thrusting against it as if trying to penetrate the soil

Rambert celebrates Charles Darwin

Confusion is rife in Rambert's revolutionary Sadler's Wells premiere, but Mark Morris serves up a powerful treat