Sadler's Wells Sampled
Dance can be hard to crack. Sometimes all that intense contemporary performance-art can revel too much in the avant-garde, whilst more traditional performances can lead to a severe case of snooze-itis; tango can seem too sleazy and hip-hop often too done. It is much to everyone's pleasure, then, that Sadler's Wells are reviving last year's delightful Sampled nights. A stroke of genius, these sessions are like performative tasters, offering the chance to test the proverbial waters of dance, catching practitioners from a huge array of styles and challenging such restrictive stereotypes.

From Russia
After a little legal jiggery-pokery to get all the pieces into the country, this monumental exhibition of Russian and French artists, working between 1870 and 1925 is finally here. Examining the wealth of artistic interchange between the two countries, the 120 paintings, gathered together from four of Russia's principal galleries and museums, chart the exploration of the Realist, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements, and their effects on the Modernism of the dawning 20th century. With work from Matisse and Monet, Kustodiev and Kandinsky collected into a landmark anthology, the sense of cultural interchange resonates not only aesthetically, but also with our current political clime.