Title: Switched
Broadcast Info: Tuesday 12 May 09, 04:15 (20 mins)
Channels: E4
Programme Type: Documentary
Category: Reality TV
Description: US reality series in which two teenagers from
different cities swap places. Ballet dancer Drew
is not happy when he learns that he is switching
lives with platoon sergeant Tyler in military
school. As Drew wakes up at dawn and learns how
to do morning formations, Tyler puts on a pair of
tights, learns how to do pilates and performs a
pas de deux
Title: Dido and Aeneas from the Royal Opera House
Broadcast Info: Friday 15 May 09, 20:05 (65 mins)
Channels: BBC4
Programme Type: Music & Arts
Category: Ballet
Director: Jonathan Haswell
Performers: Sarah Connolly
Lucas Meachum
Description: Marking the 350th anniversary of Henry Purcell's
birth is a new production of Dido and Aeneas, a
short operatic masterpiece which brings together
the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet and is
directed by Wayne McGregor, the Royal Ballet's
resident choreographer. British mezzo-soprano
Sarah Connolly sings the role of Dido and
American baritone Lucas Meachum is Aeneas. The
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is
conducted by the period instrument pioneer
Christopher Hogwood
Title: How It's Made
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 17:30 (30 mins)
Channels: Discovery Science
Programme Type: Documentary
Description: Revealing how everyday items are made. Experts
discuss how wood-burning stoves, ballet slippers,
buses and orthoses are produced
Title: Mad For Dance
Episode: Nabina
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 11:55 (5 mins)
Channels: Community Channel
Programme Type: Documentary
Description: People with mental health issues talk about their
passion for dance. Nabina has been diagnosed with
Bipolar Disorder, but copes by choreographing
eastern-inspired dances
Title: Hairspray
Broadcast Info: Monday 18 May 09, 12:45 (120 mins)
Channels: Sky Movies Premier 2
Programme Type: Film
Category: Musical
Director: Adam Shankman
Performers: Michelle Pfeiffer
James Marsden
Queen Latifah
Christopher Walken
John Travolta
Amanda Bynes
Country: US
UK
Year: 2007
Description: Remake of the cult musical satire set in 1962
Baltimore. A chubby teenager who dreams of
stardom has a run-in with the star of a hit
teenage dance show and her hair-lacquered mother.
Not content with ousting the local rich kid, the
rotund-yet-rhythmic heroine and her friends cause
a race riot on TV dance-fest 'The Corny Collins
Show' when they bring along a few black friends
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