The BBC will transmit the Pet Shop Boys ballet with Ivan Putrov on July 1

As part of its weekend of contemporary dance performance, BBC Four will broadcast The Most Incredible Thing, the new, full-length dance piece which premièred at Sadler's Wells in London earlier this year, featuring music by electronic pop legends the Pet Shop Boys and choreographed and directed by Javier de Frutos. The programme will go out at 8pm on July 1st on BBC Four.

The Most Incredible Thing sees modern dance set in a traditional three-act narrative and features former Royal Ballet star Ivan Putrov alongside principal dancers and Aaron Sillis.

Featuring design, lighting and film content by an impressive creative team, including Tony Award-winning designer Katrina Lindsay (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and Bafta-winning film animator Tal Rosner, the programme also includes exclusive behind-the-scenes access and interviews with the Pet Shop Boys, Javier de Frutos and others involved in this ambitious new production.

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.