Big girls dance at Buxton Opera House

A word of warning-do not read this while you are eating your cornflakes.

The Big Ballet is on at Buxton Opera House and with a minimum weigh-in requirement of 17 stone, the 16 girls in this Russian company certainly test the boards.

With very little in the way of formal ballet movement their rendition consists of strutting and upper body movement combined with modern dance, disco, upbeat traditional folk dancing and outrageous comic routines.

Hell's Angels in bikinis, more than ample displays of flesh and belly dancing as you've never seen it before makes this a good-natured, colourful, entertaining show, proving that big girls can dance.

And there is something for the girls as well in the form of six half-naked young male dancers who do a version of the Full Monty. Keep your knickers on girls.

Chris Sabian, Peak District View - 2007-03-14 02:05:52