Raven Girl is a fairytale which pays elaborate homage to its avian precedents in dance - specifically Swan Lake, The Firebird and Merce Cunningham's Beach Birds. This immediately sets the piece up as ...

When the choreographer Wayne McGregor and the novelist Audrey Niffenegger decided to collaborate on "a new fairytale" for the Royal Ballet, it was a leap in the dark for both of them. He had never ...