There's great dance on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.
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22 May 2007
CONTEMPORARY DANCE With his love of geometric patterns and big budget dance routines, Busby Berkeley knew how to entertain an audience. And trying to emulate such a master, in these days of funding cuts and small venues, is no mean feat. But as she’s…
21 May 2007
THEATRE SHOW Like most fairytales, scratch away the surface of Hansel and Gretel and you find something nasty lurking underneath. Edible house aside, the story is filled with fear and adversity - perfect for any theatre company to get its teeth…
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…
27 Mar 2007
MODERN DANCE The phrase ‘blink and you miss it’, has great resonance in the dance world. Fast-paced leaps and turns can pass before our eyes, without fully registering on the brain. Which is why this full-on journey into the world of dance…
CONTEMPORARY DANCE Hearing Henri Oguike talk about music, you could almost forget he’s a choreographer. So passionate is he about sound, movement seems to take a back seat. That is until you see his work. Oguike’s choreography is full of drama…
BALLET (Photo: © Merlin Hendry) It’s 20 years since the death of Scottish Ballet’s founder, Peter Darrell, and you can’t help but wonder what he’d make of the company today. After prolonged periods of uncertainty, Scottish Ballet has become a…
26 Mar 2007
MUSICAL THEATRE She’s rude, inconsiderate, bolshy and the bane of many parents’ lives. Tracy Beaker may be a fictional creation, but her cheeky expressions - both facial and verbal - have been embraced by pre-pubescents across the…
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…
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…
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…
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