La Fille mal gardée at the Royal Ballet review: a real live pony on stage? Five stars! - 5/5 This 1960s ballet from Frederick Ashton is endearingly bucolic ...

Presenter Charles Hazlewood stages a 140-person flashmob clog dance and explores the history of this folk dance that originated in the collieries and pit villages of the north east of England in the ...

La Fille mal gardée features a real live pony, so it’s probably the best ballet ever. Some friends of mine were so enamoured of the previous incumbent of the role, a snow-white scene stealer called ...