Dance
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
★★★★☆Beautiful and dangerous:
Love, lust, obsession and despair are given colourful and vigorous life in Matthew Bourne’s adaptation of The Red Shoes, touring to the Festival Theatre this week.
Tables of dance
Dance artist chronicles lifetime’s work:
Dance, perhaps the most ephemeral of the live arts, is given a fresh sense of history in an exhibition from dance artist Janice Parker at the City Art Centre.
Rambert: Ghost Dances
★★★★☆ Bitty:
Vicious, enthralling, politically charged and emotionally engaging, Rambert’s revival of Ghost Dances, is still powerful, 35 years after it was created.
Keep Dancing
★★★☆☆ Not Strictly necessary:
Accomplished and brash ballroom dancing makes the touring Keep Dancing at the Playhouse entertaining enough.
New Head of Dance for CS
Laura Cameron Lewis gets Head of Dance at Creative Scotland:
Creative Scotland has announced that Laura Cameron Lewis will be its Head of Dance, taking up the role from June 20 2016.
The Last Tango
★★★★☆ Fond farewell:
Beautifully danced and packing considerable emotional punch, The Last Tango at the Playhouse and on tour to July 2016 is a genuine crowd-pleaser.
EIF programme announced
Solid showing for Linehan’s second EIF:
Circus, Shakespeare and Sappy Songs will provide just some of the highlights for this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, running 5 – 29 August 2016.
DanceFest is Go!
Festival stage explodes with innovation:
Tuesday night looks to be an early highlight in the dance aficionado’s year as as seventeen different youth dance groups get to perform on the Festival Theatre stage.
Calling Young Dancers
Dance Base form youth company:
Dance Base, the national centre for dance, is holding open auditions for a new Lothian Youth Dance Company for people aged 14-19.
Alba Flamenca
✭✭✭✭✭ Inviting and inspiring:
With so many shows on offer, it’s easy to forget a lot of what you see at the fringe. But you’ll never forget the way something makes you feel. Alba Flamenca is an emotive and fiery fiesta that inspires as much as it entertains.
