Created and Directed by Natasha Gilmore and Robbie Synge ★★★★ Tucked away in a corner of the Dovecot Studios, Barrowland Ballet’s Family Portrait makes a welcome return from its original Covid-inception. A semi-live experience with an immersive gallery aesthetic for audiences, Family Portrait finds four screens surrounding viewers who perch on pivoting stools with 360 degrees of … Continue reading Family Portrait – Dovecot Studios
Written by Max Percy Directed by James Newton ★★★★ Baklâ, It’s a noun in Tagalog meaning homosexual, specifically of a more feminine projection. The connotations of the word spread further into the disparaging, stereotypical and slanderous - from the off writer and performer Max Percy embraces the identification, simultaneously utilising the term to share their … Continue reading Baklâ – Summerhall: Demonstration Room
https://youtu.be/Mo21M6gh2TM Choreography and Direction by William Tuckett (Then & Now) Choreography and Direction by Mthuthuzeli November (Nina: By Whatever Means) ★★★★★ All good things come to those who wait. And the audiences of Edinburgh have been patient in their appreciation and fervour for Ballet Black, who after a significant delay, return to the city at … Continue reading Ballet Black: Pioneers – Festival Theatre
They’ve thrilled the world, appearing to over half a million spectators from the Royal Variety Performance to Montecarlo’s Circus Festival, The Black Blues Brothers make an exciting return to Edinburgh this Festival Fringe. Their mission? To entertain. Fusing together the Vigor of Africa with a rhythm ‘n’ blues sound, these five acrobats are unleashed to … Continue reading Have a Gander – The Black Blues Brothers
https://youtu.be/mkmLrAlCyss Written and Directed by Joan Clevillé Choreography Joan Clevillé in Collaboration with the Dancers ★★★★ The measure of treasure is often different for those who seek it. It could easily be gold and silver, but for many, a reunion with a loved one or an inspiration is worth more than a horde of gems and trinkets. Jessie … Continue reading Pirates! – Dundee Rep Theatre
https://youtu.be/VXCB_QpUBEg Conceived and Directed by Kevin Finnan Choreography by Kevin Finnan, Junior Cunningham and Original Cast Original Score by Tim Dickinson and Sophy Smith ★★★★ Entering its third touring year, Motionhouse: Nobody has been enthralling audiences across the UK and Europe. Now, landing at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, this demonstration of raw physical prestige and gravity-defying choreography … Continue reading Motionhouse: Nobody – Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/P5VJrTBPqb8 Created by Le Cirque du Bout du Monde ★★★★★ What utter nonsense. Senseless, even tasteless, wanton destruction abounds in a celebration of absurdist chaos, all in what people would call art, performance. By the creative's admittance: this isn’t even a show. What this is, is perfection. Yet somehow, it’s also an absolute cacophony of … Continue reading Der Lauf – Southside Community Centre
Book by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce Directed by Craig Revel Horwood Choreography by Jason Gilkison and Craig Revel Horwood ★★★ The safe bet to victory, or the pursuit of something new: that is the quandary which plagues Scott Hastings – a professional ballroom dancer who cannot quite crack it into the championship leagues. But … Continue reading Strictly Ballroom The Musical – Edinburgh Playhouse
Presented with Dance Horizons Artistic Direction by Nicolò Abbattista ★★★★ Frequent champions of dance and movement, the Edinburgh-based Dance Horizons continues to introduce diverse UK and international artists to Scottish audiences. Frequently a compendium of varying artists and creatives, tonight finds Dance Horizons present a more accomplished and certainly more structured trio from Lost Movements … Continue reading Lost Movements -The Studio, Potterrow
https://youtu.be/0COpMaHDYhM Based on the play by Tennesse Williams Directed by Nancy Meckler Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa ★★★★★ A paradox occurs: the still frigid stone of Edinburgh collides with the steam and intensity of a New Orleans summer for the return of Scottish Ballet’s A Streetcar Named Desire, revitalised after eight years in slumber by a … Continue reading Scottish Ballet: A Streetcar Named Desire – Festival Theatre
