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

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Outre

28 Jul 2006

Last year he took us on a coach journey with blacked-out windows. This year he’s promised us a ‘twisted cabaret’. Darren Johnston certainly knows how to mess with our minds. The London-based dancer, choreographer and video artist created one of the most…

Knots

27 Jul 2006

Many choreographers will tell you their show is about ‘relationships’, a catch-all word for the often abstract nature of dance. Dublin’s CoisCéim, however, has better justification to use it than most. Knots is inspired by the book of the same name by…

Deca Dance

Deca Dance

edfest.tv - video

1 Sep 2008

Highly energized, daring and humorous dance from Israel's Batsheva Dance Company in a programme of works specially devised to showcase the breadth of choreographer Ohad Naharin's work

Cloudcuckooland

Cloudcuckooland

edfest.tv - video

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.

Bale de Rua

Festival dance hitlist

14 Aug 2008

Bale de Rua, The Vanishing Point, Mortal Engine, Steve Reich Evening, Scottish Dance Theatre, Children of the Khmer, State of Matter

Mortal Engine

Mortal Engine

14 Aug 2008

Using cutting-edge technology, Australia’s Chunky Move dance company explores human interaction and mortality. Performed on a steeply raked stage, the show features patterns of music and sound triggered by the dancers’ movement and re-routed back to the…

Phantomysteria

Phantomysteria

Apocalyptic open-air performance

(3 stars)14 Aug 2008

A chimp-pig like creature and a sinewy torn-suited survivor find solace in each other before enforcers aggressively intervene. The planet is destroyed and those who remain are living at the beginning of an era where new laws reign. But because humans…

Bale De Rua

Bale de Rua

edfest.tv - video

11 Aug 2008

Featuring an exhilarating blend of capoiera, hip hop and original music, this street ballet will have you dancing in the aisles.

parallel/parallels

parallel/parallels

edfest.tv - video

11 Aug 2008

Award-winning choreographer Frank McConnell explores the world of parallel universes in this 'Dance Base Presents...' production. Song, text and dance explore the meaning of relationships with a sideways look at metaphysics and philosophy.

Bale de Rua

Bale de Rua

Brazilian back flips and beats

(5 stars)7 Aug 2008

The gorgeous Bale de Rua troupe rules the stage with enthralling drum beats, breathless body movements and innovative set pieces. Telling a loose story of the slaves who came to Brazil, this semblance of structure bows down before a musical journey that…

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