Dance review Putting the Grimm back in the tale with twin retelling

Snow White/The Sacrifice Sadler's Wells East, London ★★★★★/★★★★★

- Lyndsey Winship

It's not your Disney version, this. In fact, ballet Lorent's production has less in common with a sweet-singing Rachel Zegler, more with Demi Moore in The Substance. And it reminds you that, in the version originally collected by the Brothers Grimm at least, Snow White is hardly a kids' story, what with all the attempted murder and juicy cannibalism.

So the choreographer Liv Lorent offers up two versions: a family show for all ages, and an "after dark" Snow White: The Sacrifice for audiences of 16 and over, which is the more successful. There is actually not so much difference between the two. The adult version is sexier, fleshier, a bit more on the nose, a shade more violent (not least in the bikini wax scene).