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Sleeping Beauty, Theatre Royal, Glasgow Sprinkling of fairy dust

Enchantment dances everywhere you look in this welcome return of Ashley Page's outstanding re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty for Scottish Ballet.

Fairy magic – good and evil – meets in a clash of elemental forces that Tchaikovsky's music colours superbly but the truest magic of all is love, and love is what Page celebrates in choreography that allows the dancers to show technical prowess, but insists they bring emotional intelligence to the story-telling. The current company rise to this challenge with finesse at every level.