Reborn classic is tutu good to miss

OLD SCHOOL Scottish Ballet’s Andrew Peasgood and Constance Devernay in The Fairy’s Kiss TWO choreographers and two very different takes on the stirring music of Stravinsky.

The late Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Fairy’s Kiss has a history as dark as the ballet itself, with a dancer almost killed by a falling piece of the set during an Edinburgh Festival performance in 1960.

Bar one revival, it languished in mothballs until MacMillan’s widow Deborah asked Scottish Ballet to give it a go. The result is a deliciously old-school piece of dance – with tutus, goodies, baddies and some dervish-like ghouls who look ready to go out guising.

After being on hold for half a century, it springs back into life with the Scottish Ballet orchestra making the most of the stirring score.

The second piece, The Rite of Spring, could not be more different.

Two men in fluid black skirts