Kismet: Rambert’s new double bill brings youthful joy to Edinburgh

Rambert in Emma Evelein’s Gallery of Consequence

Rambert in Johan Inger's B.R.I.S.A

Naya Lovell in Johan Inger's B.R.I.S.A

By Kathy Elgin, 07 July 2025

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“It was like watching a series of madcap cartoons with an alien soundtrack”

Reviewed at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh on 3 July 2025

Gallery of Consequence (Emma Evelein)

B.r.i.s.a (Johan Inger)

Rambert

Johan Inger, Set Designer

Bregje van Balen, Costume Designer

Tom Visser, Lighting Designer

Ryan Joseph Stafford, Lighting Designer

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****1

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***11

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****1

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***11

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****1

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Kathy Elgin

After a career in publishing, Kathy Elgin turned her enthusiasm for dance into a real job by joining the late, great John Percival, Dance Critic of The Times, in his re-launch of Dance and Dancers magazine in 1981. She was later delighted to join its rival, The Dancing Times, as Scottish correspondent until the magazine’s sad demise in 2022. She lives in Edinburgh.