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The Dan Daw Show is distinctly devoid of anything resembling dance moves.

Based around the Sufi myth of the bulbul, a bird said to sing more sweetly as it approaches death, Odedra's new work brings together North Indian Kathak dance, Sufi myth and Islamic poetry.

Incest, family secrets, murder… this is a fiercely compelling evening of dance, drama and song.

The World Premiere at the Edinburgh Festival of The Last Hotel:   a strange and haunting new chamber opera from post-minimilist composer Donnacha Dennehyna and acclaimed writer Enda Walsh with the Crash Ensemble generating exciting rhythmic pulsing energy in the pit. 

I wish C.P. Snow could have been there. Had the author of the celebrated 1959 “Two Cultures” lecture been able to attend the Edinburgh International Festival Conversation between Philip Campbell (editor of Nature magazine) and multimedia artist Meredith Monk, I believe he would have been heartened by the effortlessly resonant conversation between two representatives from either side of the once ir