Royal Ballet’s Covent Garden Christmas double bill of Ashton’s Les Patineurs and the popular Tales of Beatrix Potter runs from December 21.
Anthony Dowell’s Sleeping Beauty runs from January 20 (0171 304 4000). Hart’s spectacular Cinderella for London City Ballet runs at Sadler’s Wells (0171 713 6000) December 16-January 6. English National Ballet’s Nutcracker (Royal Festival Hall: 0171 960 4242) plays December 18-January 6, with an Associates’ Nutcracker Tea Party December 30 and January 6 (0171 581 1245) followed by Swan Lake January 8-13 and a scintillating Alice in Wonderland at the London Coliseum (0171 632 8300) from March 19. Hurry to Never Never Land.