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A film tracing the long life of Graham, who changed dance for ever and became the most influential American-born choreographer of this century. Beach Birds for Camera

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A film version of Merce Cunningham 's stage work, The Dancer Revealed. It has won awards in Europe and America and has been acclaimed as a masterpiece.

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First seen earlier this year, Outside In was choreographed by Victoria Marks for the partly able-bodied, partly disabled CandoCo Dance Company. It won the Grand Prix at the recent Prague Television Festival.

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Siobhan Davies's mystical work, with a musical score by Gerald Barry, was created for and performed by her own company. Its title comes from an old riddle, and the piece is full of camouflage and double meaning.

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Tonight's programme is a salute to British choreographer Christopher Bruce, who was recently appointed as Director of the Rambert Dance Company, and features three of his most popular ballets. Rooster, performed by the Geneva Ballet, is set to a selection of the Rolling Stones' recordings from the sixties and seventies - including Little Red Rooster, Ruby Tuesday, Lady Jane, Play with Fire and Sympathy for the Devil. The haunting melodies of the high Andes provide the score for Ghost Dances, inspired by political oppression in South America and performed by the Houston Ballet. Set to songs by Bob Dylan, Moonshine is performed by NDT3 (Nederland Dans Theater 3), a company founded for dancers over the age of 40 to challenge the notion of dance being only for the young. It takes its inspiration from eight songs including Paths of Victory, Talkin' Hava Nageilah Blues and Moonshiner.

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Tonight's programme features Viviana Duranteand Irek Mukhamedov in the Royal Ballet's production of Kenneth MacMillan 's full-length ballet Mayerling. Set in and around Vienna, it is a story of obsession and intrigue, based on the real-life events surrounding the deaths in 1889 of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his reckless, highly-strung 17-year-old lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.

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(Japanese for The Moon Princess), is a dance workforthe Netherlands Dance Company by its Czech directorand choreographer Jiri Kylian. It is inspired by his visits to Japan and by the folktale of the moon princess, who wants to bring peace and beauty to the world but succeeds only in bringingthe opposite. With its theme of the impossibility of absolute beauty and purity in an imperfect world, it is not a traditional fairy tale ballet, but the rhythm of the piece is typical of Japanese storytelling, where the main elements are presented in a very concise way, while minor details are meticulously elaborated upon.

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Tonight's final programme in the present series celebrates the work of the late George Balanchine , widely recognised as one of the century's foremost dance figures. Recorded at the New York City Ballet's Balanchine Festival, it includes highlights from some of the Russian-bom choreographer's most popular works. The programme begins with an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's Themes and Variations, followed by Stars and Stripes, Balanchine's tribute to the country where he spent the last four decades of his life, which is danced to the all-American music of John Philip Sousa. The company glides through the Der Rosenkavalier section of Richard Strauss 's Vienna Waltzes and Paris Opera ballet star Manuel Legris performs a solo from Square Dance before Britain's Darcey Bussell provides a programme highlight with her performance in Stravinsky's Agon.

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