Upcoming dance performances

Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

The nicest news of the week for dance lovers is the return to the Covent Garden stage of Ashton's joyous pastoral masterpiece La Fille mal gardee. This is a hymn to young love, to buoyant dancing, to the joys of soaring happiness. Fille comes back to the repertoire on Thursday evening with the delightful Laura Morera as Lise and Vadim Muntagirov making his first appearance as Colas. Prices range from £5 to £97.

On Tuesday evening you will find the latest triple bill from the Royal Ballet, with Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, MacMillan's Song of the Earth and the newly staged creation by Hofesh Shechter on view.

roh.org.uk, 020 7304 4000

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Pina Bausch, Sadler's Wells, London

At Sadler's Wells, the Tanztheater Wuppertal returns to London with two stagings by Pina Bausch. Dating from the 1980s, both are new to Britain: Auf dem Gebirge . . . (On the Mountain a Cry Was Heard), April 15-18, is "set on a soil-strewn stage and features music from Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Henry Purcell" while Ahnen (Ancestors), on view April 23-26, is set "in a thorny desert-scape", and boasts "a similarly diverse score".

sadlerswells.com, 0844 871 0090

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The Great Gatsby, Theatre Royal, Norwich

Northern Ballet visits the Theatre Royal, Norwich on April 14-18 with David Nixon's realisation of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Music by Richard Rodney Bennett.

northernballet.com, 01603 630000

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Diana Vishneva: On the Edge, English National Opera, London

Vishneva, principal dancer in the Mariinsky Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre, performs works created for her: Jean-Christophe Maillot's pas de trois Switch and Carolyn Carlson's solo work Woman in a Room on April 14, 16 and 18.

eno.org.uk, 020 7845 9300

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