Central School of Ballet's renowned graduate performing company Ballet Central celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2015.
This year's nationwide tour is underway and comes to The Lowry, Salford Quays on Monday June 29.
The renowned performing dance company appears in 14 towns and cities nationwide across a five-month period.
The annual Ballet Central tour offers a chance to see some of the most highly-skilled, new dance talent perform newly commissioned works and much-loved revivals by the dance industry’s top choreographers.
The 2015 repertoire includes a range of new pieces: an energetic neoclassical work by Scottish Ballet's artistic director, Christopher Hampson entitled Four, to music from Flak by Graham Fitkin; a world première of Morning & Moonlight, a contemporary piece suggesting elements of a seascape by international choreographer Christopher Bruce CBE, performed to excerpts from Benjamin Britten's Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes; a narrative work by current MA Choreography student and dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet Kit Holder entitled Hopper, inspired by the paintings of American artist Edward Hopper, which features a new score by Ballet Central's Musical Director Philip Feeney.
Classical ballet fans will relish the Blue Ball Pas de Deux from Cinderella, choreographed by the late company founder Christopher Gable CBE and staged by Carole Gable, as well as La Fille Mal Gardée Pas de Deux and Pas de Quatre staged by Central tutors Resmi Malko and Patricia Linton.
This year's tour will also see revivals of Code by Phoenix Dance Theatre's artistic director and central artistic advisor Sharon Watson and Scenes from a Wedding by Christopher Marney, Matthew Bourne's New Adventures Company principal artist and Central MA Choreography graduate.