Reviews
NordDance
An exciting and highly successful festival, featuring edgy new dance work from Scotland and the Nordic countries.
Royal New Zealand Ballet—Giselle
Despite a slow first act, this is a very agreeable two hours, with many beautiful moments and some definite flashes of brilliance.
Richard Alston Dance Company
A satisfying programme of dance that has a truly intimate rapport with the music.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
With great dancers and artful, witty choreography, The Trocks are much, much more than simply ballerinos in tutus.
Scottish Ballet
Opening their Autumn season, Scottish Ballet show they are a company who keep on going from strength to strength.
Plan B for Utopia
This first full-length work from Joan Clevillé Dance is a real joy to watch.
Transitions of (I)dentity
Nicely choreographed and well danced, this is a satisfying piece of contemporary ballet.
Ballett Zurich
Two sharply satisfying pieces of choreography make for an evening of dark spirits, thumping rhythms and phenomenal dance talent.
Time Lapse
There is much good material here, but Time Lapse doesn’t quite fuse together to form a proper whole.
Under Flat Sky/Edge of Nowhere
Beautiful and expertly realised, two highly successful fusions of sound, image and dance.
Perceptual Landscape
An effective amalgamation of physical theatre, light, video, photography and sound.
My People
Based on Caradoc Evans’ collection of short stories, this stark work runs out of energy towards the end.
Da-Da-Darling
Sensual, macabre and transgressive, and featuring some of the best dancers to be seen at the Fringe.
ZIK’R
An exciting blend of traditional instruments, electronic elements, and flamenco, charting the mystical path of Sufi.
I am
Some poignant and beautiful moments in a work exploring the challenges recovering victims of trafficking face.
For Now, I Am
Marc Brew explores what it is to reconcile being in the world in a new way, following his car accident in 1997.