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Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports from an African disaster zone. Plus: ballet superstar Steven McRae’s gruelling road to recovery. Here’s what to watch this evening

Matthew Ball and Yasmine Naghdi enchant as the Royal Ballet celebrates 60 years of Kenneth MacMillan’s classic. And into the void with Wayne McGregor

Ellen Elphick, 31, accused the elite institution in London of breaching its duty of care

The 42-year-old was speaking on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.

ENB’s new Nutcracker recaptures the joy, while Royal Ballet finesse shines through the bling in a Frederick Ashton classic. Plus, a searing festive antidote from Ben Duke

3/5 This quartet of contemporary dances offers eccentric movement, bravura quartets and meditations on relationships, loneliness and destiny

As the Royal Ballet’s newly minted principal, the dancer is on a mission to challenge the industry’s underlying racism from the inside. He discusses his first steps – and the role of his dreams

Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés

As part of the Royal Ballet’s season devoted to the British choreographer, the Florida company brings three of his works to radiant, graceful life

The Havana-born superstar may have retired from dancing nearly a decade ago, but he has no plans to slow down. Currently the artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he talks to Charlotte Cripps about ballet and Black Sabbath, middle-aged spread, and his plans to bring ballet to the masses

Launching a four-year celebration of Frederick Ashton’s genteel ‘English style’, this triple bill is full of refined beauty and pleasure – though with athleticism visible below the surface