Nirvana album turned into dance show

The classic Nirvana album Nevermind is to be turned into a dance based show in the States.

The show is to be put on in Seattle by the Spectrum Dance Theater and will premiere on March 31.

The performance has been choreographed and directed by Donald Byrd, who has worked on The Colour Purple on Broadway recently.

He told NME that he was very taken with the story of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain: "The tragedy of his drug addiction that didn't allow [him] to see with the kind of clarity that would have made for different choices, I was kind of drawn to that."

However, the director said that whilst the show was not intentionally biographical Cobain's life was an "inspirational departure point".