Tag: Dance
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The Very Best of the Edinburgh Festivals 2025
Our continually updated round-up of all the four and five star shows seen by our writing team
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Review: Figures in Extinction
Extraordinary, unique and emotion-firing performance
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Review: Breaking Bach
Street dance meets classical in atypically fitting mash-up
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Review: IV – Here & Now Showcase
Fourth piece in dance series struggles to land
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Review: Delusional – I Killed a Man
Diana Salles breathes new life into the trans rebirth metaphor
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Review: Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words)
A showcase of true dedication and skill
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Review: Orpheus and Eurydice
Spellbinding new take on a classic
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Review: Anatomy of a Night
Performance intended as a “love letter” to queer spaces is thinly conceived
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Review: Mary, Queen of Scots
Scottish Ballet’s thrillingly unapologetic retelling
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Review: Score
Rich and deeply intelligent confrontation with technologies of control
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Review: Stepping In… Spilling Out
Gorgeously unfussy performance from dancer Mark Bleakley and percussionist Rémy Gouffault
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Review: Giselle: Remix
Fresh update of classic ballet explores importance of queer visibility
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Review: Wee Man
Barrowland Ballet’s intergenerational show provides a breadth of contributions
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Review: LOLA: A Flamenco Love Story
Impassioned tale of resilience spans Franco’s Spain and 60s London
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Review: Imago
An incredibly impressive feat of acrobatics, staging, and sound design
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Review: HAMLET by New York Circus Project
Innovative and highly visual approach to Shakespeare
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Review: Dance People
Interactive dance performance that ignites and unites audiences
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Interview: Lewis Walker on Bornsick
The artist discusses their new solo performance piece Bornsick and how they work with the extremes of movement
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Review: The Dan Daw Show
In this enervating declaration of sexuality as selfhood, disabled bodies are not only desirable but agential through desire
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Review: The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave
A relentless feat of endurance from New Zealand choreographers Oli Mathiesen, Lucy Lynch and Sharvon Mortimer
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Review: Pickled Republic
Sentient vegetables face the existential horror of their fast approaching sell-by date
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Review: The Genesis
Copenhagen Collective’s Fringe debut is a crowd-pleasing spectacle
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Review: Women in Socks and Sandals
Feats of physicality uplift this wordless show from Denmark, which is in need of a stronger through line
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Review: Voyeur / Samba and Love
São José dos Campos Dance Company brings us a striking double bill which captivates and inspires
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Review: Champions
A reflective and meditative portrait that provides an outline of dysfunction
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Sound of São Paulo Mixtape
The choreographer and dancers behind Voyeur / Samba and Love – part of the São Paulo Showcase – each pick a song from Brazil that inspires them
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Farah Saleh
Farah Saleh’s Balfour Reparations examines the UK’s colonial legacy in Palestine, using a mix of speculative choreography and Afrofuturism
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Interview: Nick Nikolaou and Tommy Small
The two artists explain the importance of placing queer joy at the heart of their Fringe shows
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Natasha Gilmore (Barrowland Ballet)
Natasha Gilmore, Artistic Director of Barrowland Ballet, presents two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year – Chunky Jewellery and Wee Man
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: SERAFINE1369
IV (4) by SERAFINE1369 – part of the Here and Now showcase – considers cycles, time, divination and decomposition through dance and choreographed performance
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Ad Infinitum
George Mann and Ramesh Meyyappan, co-creators of Ad Infinitum’s Last Rites, answer our questions about the show, which is part of the Here & Now Showcase
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Interview: Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine
With Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine arriving at Portobello Town Hall this August, festival co-organiser Sara Shaarawi tells us more about the vital showcase
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Edinburgh Fringe 2025 – Top Picks: Dance and Circus
Immerse yourself into worlds of imaginative storytelling, from Afrofuturist performance to the migration of birds
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Edinburgh International Festival 2025: Top Picks
The best music, dance and theatre arriving at the International Festival
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Edinburgh Fringe Q&A: Saeed Hani (Hani Dance)
The story of Romulus and Remus provides the springboard for Hani Dance’s enchanting production of Inlet, an immersive performance from Luxembourg
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Top Picks: Dance
This year’s dance offerings at the Fringe include stories of hope and survival, as well as immersive adventures
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Care to Dance?
The Australian Calisthenics Theatre Company discuss bringing their sport to a wider audience