Dance
Cinderella
★★★★☆ Sparkling:
Scottish Ballet’s Cinderella, back at the Festival Theatre this Christmas, is still a festive treat with huge reserves of charm and elegance.
Facing the Music
Dance is the way to do it:
This week there is an extravaganza of dance up at the Church Hill Theatre. Let’s Face the Music and Dance is both a celebration of all things rhythmic and a huge personal statement for its founder, Janice Bruce.
Rambert: Life is a Dream
★★★☆☆ Woozy poetry:
Rambert’s Life is a Dream, at the Festival Theatre to Saturday, is a peculiar, poetic piece that suffers from pulling in too many directions at once.
Multilingual call out
Edinburgh Multilingual Stories Festival seeks input:
Theatre Sans Accents, Bilingualism Matters and the Polish Cultural Festival Association are looking for paid external input to their new Multilingual Stories Festival, taking place autumn 2018 at Assembly Roxy.
Strictly Playhouse Lineup
Cast announced for Strictly Professionals tour:
Casting has been announced for Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals, with reigning Strictly champion Katya Jones leading the ten strong cast who will arrive at the Edinburgh Playhouse in May 2019.
Strictly Professionals for Playhouse
Edinburgh date for Strictly’s professionals tour:
Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals is to tour in May 2019, including a three performance stopover at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
Bourne’s Cinders for Fest Theatre
June 2018 date for Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella:
Matthew Bourne’s Olivier award-winning ballet of Cinderella is to play Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in June as part of a major UK tour which starts this Christmas at Sadler’s Wells in London.
The Nutcracker
★★★★★ A Christmas Cracker:
With enough spectacle and showmanship to keep kids big and small spellbound, Scottish Ballet’s revival of Peter Darrel’s Nutcracker at the Festival Theatre and on tour is the perfect Christmas present.
Tango Moderno
★★★★☆ Someone’s been tangoed:
There’s a hitch at Tango Moderno, the latest Playhouse dance extravaganza which is playing to Saturday – but there are no missteps.
Rambert’s Goat premiere
Rambert premiere Goat at Festival Theatre:
The renowned Rambert Dance Company is to stage the world premiere of a new ballet, Goat, at the Festival Theatre tonight, Thursday 26 October 2017.
