Clare Gaylard Glass 

Input has all been quite decadent and styalised lately. Friends gave us a couple of tickets to Sadlers Wells and my youngest had just finished reading a swathe of Lorna Hill's wonderful ballet books. I wasn't too excited about a Christmas Sleeping Beauty but this was Michael Bourne and it was a stylish, humorous, vampiric delight. I could have sat through a second performance straight after the first. Bourne choreographed the famous Swan Lake with the male corps de ballet and now we must find out how to see it.