Aakash Odedra Company’s Songs of the Bulbul premieres in Edinburgh

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

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

Septime Webre’s dazzling, maximalist Great Gatsby for the Kansas City Ballet is instantly engaging.

Ballet isn’t always pretty, there are plenty of examples in repertoires across the world. John Neumeier’s Streetcar Named Desire (Endstation Sehnsucht) is to reach another level of grim but gripping brutality told through dance.