Satisfaction - TNT

Say goodbye to the dull English summer with a couple of hours of classically inspired dance set to a selection of recorded Rolling Stones hits from the '60s and '70s. Under My Thumb (the opening number of former ballet dancer Peter Schaufuss's production) is a bit of a mess, but things soon look up as his choreography — ballet-based but drawing on styles as international as his cast — succumbs to the power of the music. A cheeky dancer struts his stuff, Jagger-style, in skin-tight red pants in Red Rooster — but even a few decades ago Mick couldn't have kept up with the muscled quartet performing Time is On My Side. Some of the choreography is clunky and the interpretations over-obvious. And just why this self-styled "dancical" takes its name from a number which barely makes an appearance remains something of a mystery. Ballet aficionados may baulk, but from the slow, controlled sensuality in a solo interpretation of Play With Fire to the feisty female foursome in Paint it Black and the fragmenting , stomping conga of Mona, Schaufuss manages, for the most part, to tell the mini-stories of the 20-plus songs he's chosen.
Apollo, Shaftesbury Ave, W1 (0870-890 1101). Until September 5