The Royal Ballet Sinfonia invite us into their rehearsal ... On Christmas night, Clara is whisked away on a fairy-tale adventure with her Nutcracker doll, travelling through swirling snowflakes ...

“The ballet world could be non-inclusive,” says Allen. “It’s not the world we’re living in now. We don’t have to just be one thing. In my Nutcracker, we have an Egyptian doll and we ...