There's great dance on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.

La Traviata

Dance

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 10, 25, 50, 100 per page.

RSS feedWhat is this?

Dance

8 May 2007

David Hughes Dance Company David Hughes knows a thing or two about pain. As one of the most interesting dancers of his generation, Hughes has performed with the UK’s finest companies, from Rambert to DV8. But with his 40th birthday on the horizon…

*Hitlist

Hitlist

23 Apr 2007

Sunshine on Leith At last, The Proclaimers musical (pictured)! The story of two returned army veterans finding a different city to the one they left is accompanied by the likes of ‘I’m Gonna be (500 Miles)’, ‘Letter from America’ and the title song, all…

Les Ballets C. de la B - VSPRS

Tramway, Glasgow, Thu 3 - Sat 5 May

23 Apr 2007

CONTEMPORARY DANCE Belgian company, Les Ballet C. de la B is the spider plant of the dance world. Small cuttings spliced from the main group regularly take root elsewhere, creating diverse work under the same moniker. This unique structure means that…

*Hitlist

Hitlist

9 Apr 2007

Arches Theatre Festival The brilliant TEAM return after their fringe triumph with Particularly in the Heartland (pictured), an enchanting allegory about three orphans on a Kansas farm and their unlikely mentors. Sneakily witty and politically…

Michael Clark Dance Company

Tramway, Glasgow, run ended

(4 stars)13 Mar 2007

MODERN DANCE Bare breasts and the Sex Pistols - it could only be Michael Clark. Over the past 20 years, Clark has invented his own mini genre; a style of dance that pushes boundaries, dancers’ abilities and audience expectations. Performed as part…

Scottish Dance Theatre

Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Tue 27 Mar

(4 stars)13 Mar 2007

MODERN DANCE Diversity is fast become the calling card of Scottish Dance Theatre. Visiting Edinburgh as part of its UK tour, the company will perform three works which, although choreographically distinct, have one common factor - an emotional…

The Three Musketeers

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Wed 7-Sat 10 Mar

27 Feb 2007

SWASHBUCKLING BALLET Northern Ballet Theatre have long been renowned for their atypical productions and for injecting realism and contemporary movement into ballet. In his six years as artistic director, however, David Nixon has refocused NBT’s…

George Piper Dances interview

Encore

12 Feb 2007

Michael Clark’s arrival in Glasgow coincides with a return visit by George Piper Dances. Like Clark, the founder members of George Piper Dances trained at the Royal Ballet School. Unlike Clark, William Trevitt and Michael Nunn stuck to classical ballet…

Michael Clark interview

Dancing with demons

12 Feb 2007

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it that counts, as the saying goes. And from an early age, Michael Clark had beauty. A beautiful face, a beautiful spirit and a beautiful style that other dancers tried, and failed, to emulate. And what he…

Risk

Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Now touring

(4 stars)12 Feb 2007

NEW PLAY Whether we’re crossing on red or skydiving for kicks, we live in a world of calculated risk. If we stopped to think about it, we’d rarely leave the house for fear of the consequences. Actually, to stay in the house would only expose us to…

Found 224 articles.

Sorted by date / most viewed. Showing 10, 25, 50, 100 per page.