Dance
Maiden | Mother | Whore
★★★☆☆ Creation
Maiden | Mother | Whore is a happening at DB1 at Assembly @ Dance Base. Theiyā Arts Dance Collective provides completed pieces of dance but this hour is as much about thought and process as it is about witnessing finished work.
Boys Don’t Dance
★★★★★ Breathtaking
Director/Choreographer Marc Brew’s breathtaking coming of age story Boy’s Don’t Dance at Assembly @ Dance Base is anti-venom for toxic masculinity, tracking the early life of a boy as he develops his sense of self alongside his love of dance.
Glass Child
★★★★☆ Real
Glass Child at Summerhall for the first week of the Fringe inspires not only with its openness and its disarming integrity, but also with its spectacle.
More Tales from your Queer Elder
★★★★☆ A quiet, insistent triumph
There is a pernicious myth that dancers have short careers. Lucia August comprehensively dismantles that lie in More Tales from your Queer Elder at Greenside @ George Street.
EdFringe 2026: Cabaret, Comedy, Dance and Spoken Word
Edinburgh-made Cabaret, Comedy, Dance and Spoken Word at #EdFringe 2026
Something of a catch-all selection this – there isn’t quite enough dance (six shows) for its own section, and it seemed sensible to pull in the other theatre-adjacent shows from other parts of the Fringe programme here too.
The Table
★★★★☆ Questioning
Set out for a short run at the Traverse, Lung Ha’s The Table is a curious hybrid of immersive theatre, dance, spoken word and imagery. A hybrid that draws you in and leaves you asking more.
Boys Don’t Dance (EICF)
★★★★☆ Joyous
Boys Don’t Dance, by disabled dance artist and choreographer Marc Brew, is a beautifully told tale of rural isolation about a boy who just wants to dance.
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
★★★★☆ Moody and mesmerising
The Red Shoes, Matthew Bourne’s dark and twisted tale of obsession and love, jetés into the Festival Theatre on the coat-tails of 1940s Hollywood glamour and a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.
It’s A Sin for CapTheatres
Rambert announces early development of It’s a Sin ballet
Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated drama It’s A Sin is to get a ballet makeover from Rambert, with Edinburgh’s Capital Theatres as one of the co-producers.
Black Sabbath – The Ballet
★★★☆☆ Rebellious
Black Sabbath – The Ballet at the Festival Theatre is a Halloween weekend treat of brilliant dance and darkness. Having premiered in 2023, the production returns with an extra poignancy following the recent passing of lead singer Ozzy Osbourne.
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