Scottish Ballet cooks up a sexually charged storm

A man, a woman, a kitchen cleaver - this juicy scenario makes an appetising prospect for Room of Cooks, a ballet by Ashley Page based on a picture by Stephen Chambers.

Sinister and sexually violent, it's one of four dishes offered on Scottish Ballet's new spring tour, a helping of bloody haggis alongside the sushi cool of Balanchine's unforgettable Agon, the venison-and-potatoes of Peter Darrell's Othello set to Liszt, and the abstract moves to Bach by Krzysztof Pastor. After years struggling vainly to be a top-class classical company against the competition down south, Scottish Ballet has cleverly made 'non-classical' the thing to be. Ismene Brown