'Don't look at my feet!': Royal Ballet principal ballerina prepares for Nutcracker – video

Enthralling dance came in tiny packages, as productions triumphed on a shoestring, a cliff-face, a grain of sand… • Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full 2015 was a year in which small repeatedly proved itself to be beautiful. Everywhere, micro-scale productions enthralled audiences. Pieces such as Theo Clinkard’s Chalk, which reimagined the stage...