Arthur
David Bintley and the Birmingham Royal Ballet greet the millennium at the Birmingham Hippodrome with a backwards glance at the Arthurian legend, finding modern resonances. Opens January 25.

Fosse
One of the greatest, dirtiest of jazz choreographers remembered in this award winning Broadway production at the Prince of Wales, London, from February 8.

Coppélia
Ninette de Valois's neglected production of the sunny comedy by Delibes is revived with the original Osbert Lancaster designs by the Royal Ballet at ROH. Opens February 8.

The King
The irrepressible Peter Schaufuss tackles Elvis Presley, fusing rock 'n' roll with excerpts from Wagner's Ring Cycle, at Sadler's Wells from April 27.

La Bayadere
The Paris Opera Ballet performs in the UK for the first time in 15 years, dancing Rudolf Nureyev's final production for the company, at The Lowry. Opens May 4.

The Diaghilev Legacy
Royal Ballet at ROH in a mixed bill of works from the inspired repertoire of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, including Nijinska's stylishly satirical Les Biches and a reconstruction of Nijinky's lost imagist ballet, Jeux. Opens May 6.

Dido and Aeneas and Four Saints in Three Acts
The Mark Morris Dance Company at the Coliseum in June with an extraordinary dance/opera double bill of Purcell and Virgil Thomson.

Giselle
The Kirov Ballet and Opera at ROH perform Giselle and their acclaimed reconstruction of Petipa's Sleeping Beauty. June 12-July 15.

Dans Theater 1, 2 and 3
All three companies in the Nederlands Dans Theater stable unite for a unique tribute to director Jiri Kylin at the Edinburgh festival.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Cunningham goes digital in his acclaimed new work Biped, fusing a company of virtual dancers with his own live performers at the Barbican in October.