Bite-Sized Ballets

If your kids are little, you might have caught one of Northern Ballet’s screenings on CBeebies. They started making short ballets for children in 2013, first for theatre and then TV, and now they’re bringing two – ‘Elves & The Shoemaker’ and ‘Tortoise & The Hare’ – to UK cinemas. Designed for fidgety viewers, showings are less than an hour long and narrated by TV’s Anita Rani. They’re a nice introduction to ballet without the pressure of the theatre – and with the obvious bonus of popcorn.