There's great dance on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.
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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…
2 Oct 2006
DANCE The Traverse has long been the home of innovative theatre, but increasingly it’s also the place to catch ground-breaking dance. Two different but equally interesting companies are heading for the venue this fortnight, each with an international…
18 Aug 2006
Suzanne Farrell talks to Kelly Apter about her new production of Don Quixote and her symbiotic relationship with legendary choreographer George Balanchine. He made a ballet star out of her, she made a legend out of him. And between them, George…
14 Aug 2006
You’d need a strong cast and some pretty neat choreography to re-work American poet, Joseph Moncure March’s The Wild Party. Published in 1928, the poem follows gin-swilling party girl and Vaudeville dancing protagonist Queenie. The rhyming metres…
3 Aug 2006
What do Shakespeare, Tom Waits and a gurgling coffee pot have in common? Ordinarily nothing, but they all come together beautifully in Scottish Dance Theatre’s Fringe show. Created by Belgian choreographer, and ex-Rambert dancer, Jan De Schynkel, No…
21 Aug 2008
It’s not bombastic patriotism to suggest that some of the most accomplished and satisfying contemporary dance on the Fringe is homegrown. These two works performed by Scottish Dance Theatre are an excellent showcase for the jaw-dropping versatility of…
Head spins. Body spins. Spinning hand stands. Spinning kicks. Spinning on one hand. This energetic show from Korea makes outrageous martial arts and breakdance moves look so effortless that you begin to believe you could do it all yourself.
18 Aug 2008
Our feathered friends battle to save the planet with bird poo in this riotous new comedy musical for all the family. Performed by seven all-singing, all-dancing actor-musicians. Inspired by Aristophanes' The Birds.
14 Aug 2008
Fortunately avoiding elaboration of the central metaphor - war as chess - this Taiwanese company, Dansmusicians presents a sumptuous and skilled performance. With superb dancers, a tragedy played for pathos not sentimentality and a ravishing soundtrack…
This drama of two men lost in the Antarctic is in danger of giving mime a good name. Using very few props, a howling soundtrack and jumping between human and animal, Vojta Svejda and Jan Benes-McGadie relate their impressionistic story with winning…
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