MUSIC & DANCE / Critic's Choice

Adventures in Motion Pictures

Following their radical Nutcracker, AMP has displayed typical irreverence by reworking La Sylphide. The choreographer, Matthew Bourne, has cast the hero as an unemployed welder in a Scottish tale of supernatural love. Lilian Baylis Theatre

Salif Keita

The biggest noise in Mali, and one of the few world music acts the novice can get a bit of instant pleasure from. Well worth a diversion on the way home from the office. Forum

Bryn Terfel