Tag: dance
End of an era as famous Edinburgh nightclub Atik (The Cav) plays the last...
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Edinburgh’s most famous club and dance venue will play its last tune on Saturday before closing its doors for good.
Atik, known to generations of live music and dance fans over the years as The...
Edinburgh Art Festival – Ashanti Harris: Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents a new commission from Scotland based artist Ashanti Harris. Taking the novel Signposts of the Jumbie (1981), written by Faustin Charles, as a starting point, Harris will interlace ideas of...
Edinburgh’s Dance Base announces 2022 Festival programme
Scotland’s national centre for dance, Dance Base, has announced its 2022 August programme, presented as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the year celebrating the 75th anniversary of Edinburgh festivals.
Known for giving a platform...
A year of Premiers in 2022 for Scottish Ballet
Focusing for a year and a half on its, already prolific, digital and film output, Scottish Ballet returned to stages in autumn 2021 to rapturous audiences and star-studded reviews. Both dancers and producers demonstrated...
SNOW MOTION: a programme of live performance from Dance Base
With festive cheer starting to build as 2021 draws to a close, Dance Base celebrates all things dance by hosting a new showcase, SNOW MOTION: three evenings of live performance back in the glorious...
Artists announced for Dance Base and Jupiter Artland’s dance residency programme
Scotland’s national centre for dance, Dance Base, and Jupiter Artland, a contemporary sculpture park and art gallery just outside Edinburgh, are thrilled to announce the five artists selected for the Space, Nature, Nurture |...
#LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursaries announced
Some of the country’s leading dance institutions and organisations have teamed up again, following the success of #LoveDanceScotland Commissions, to offer the #LoveDanceScotland Recovery Bursaries, highlighting the importance of working in partnership, and enabling...
What’s on in November – a wellbeing workshop
For your November diary here are registration details for a wellbeing day being held in Bo'ness.
Embodying Creative Connections will be a three hour workshop on 20 November which will take you on a...
Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, Edinburgh welcomes aliens from the planet Hanyana
WeCameToDance is an interactive musical by The American Food Tank, one of the most engaged non-profits in food sustainability, agriculture, food policy, and climate change.
They are presenting WeCameToDance with the purpose of building local...
Kelta Fit – an antidote to Covid
Kelta Fit - The Scottish fitness class to ceilidh music and moves - is to expand internationally.
Co-founder Ed McCabe said: "When Covid struck we moved our classes online. We have been amazed at...
Latin lockdown lessons from Scotland’s leading tango professionals
Will Scotland emerge from Covid-19 as a nation of polyglots, dancers, musicians and yoga masters or will we slump back to our old pre-pandemic couch potato habits?
Certainly, there is plenty of options for those...
House of Jack opens new dance studio at Ocean Terminal
An exciting range of street dance classes and workshops has been brought to Ocean Terminal with the opening of a new dance studio by popular Edinburgh Hip Hop dance organisation 'House of Jack'.
The...
The House of Jack Christmas Show 2019 (I)
They went, they saw, they had to have thought it was brilliant!
Not being a theatre, dance or any other kind of critic, it was considered that the best way to present the show was...
The House of Jack Christmas Show 2019
Next weekend the Churchill Theatre will welcome dance teacher and choreographer, Ashley Jack's 'House of Jack', who will be performing their 2019 Christmas Show in front of , what is heading towards, a full...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Footnotes & Phrases
Lewys Holt brings two companion shows, performed on alternate days, to Summerhall’s Anatomy Theatre for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019.
Footnotes is a dance/ theatre comedic parody of a lecture driven off course bythe repeated intervention...
Love Cycle – Love Chapter 2
Part 2 of L-E-V Dance Company's 'Love Cycle'
Sharon Eyal is one of the most exciting choreographic talents to emerge in recent years. Working with multimedia designer Gai Behar, she formed L-E-V Dance Company, creating...
Love Cycle – OCD Love
First piece in the two-part 'Love Cycle'.
One of the most exciting choreographic talents to emerge in recent years, Sharon Eyal, worked with multimedia designer Gai Behar, and formed L-E-V Dance Company, creating work that is...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Queer Words
Stand-up comedy and poetry meets dance theatre in an outspoken slice of pride, hope, activism, and courage
At an open mic poetry toxic ideals and a crisis of masculinity are exposed on and off stage as the performers line...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – ‘Blak Whyte Gray’ Photo Call
Formed in 2002 by urban choreographer Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and producer/composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, Boy Blue Entertainment brings hip-hop from the streets and clubs firmly into the theatre.
Blak Whyte Gray is a bold...
Just Festival 2017
Just Festival 2017: Press Release
The world is in a difficult place at the moment. From the domestic to the global, the personal to the political, for those who wish to make the world a...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – our first recommendations
EIF unveiled its 70th Anniversary programme from the august Church Of Scotland Assembly Hall on The Mound earlier today.
To an accompanying sleek and chic audio-visual platform, Director, Fergus Linehan, extended the city's welcome to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Smother (V82)
"Can you stay true to yourself, when everything suggests you change? 201’s raw, contemporary hip hop returns in Smother: a story of two men's broken encounter. Returning after a sold out Edinburgh Fringe 2015...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Smother and Feel-Link (V82)
Lithuanian dancers Airida Gudaitė and Laurynas Žakevičius of the company Low Air performing their show Feel-Link at ZOO Southside and dancers from London based 201 Dance Company, with their show Smother (also at ZOO Southside)...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Puzzle
Lithuanian dance show Puzzle, a dance performance for babies, is headed for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to entertain the very youngest audiences of all at the ZOO venue.
After a limited run at the 2015 Fringe Puzzle...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Feel-Link
Lithuania's very first first urban/hip-hop dance production, from the Low Air Dance Company, is headed for the Fringe this August at ZOO Southside's main house.
Airida Gudait and Laurynas Zakeviius represent a new generation of Lithuanian dancers and choreographers. Their show...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – CONTEMPORARY?
A multi award-winningdance show from Lithuania is headed for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Contemporary? has become the dance sensation of recent years in its home country and will take up residency at ZOO.
Three of the best known and...
Swing dance has swung back into fashion
Edinburgh is going vintage with a dance from the 1930s called the Lindy Hop.
Swing dance is back in fashion. With tea dances, 1940s themed weekends, and hundreds of weekly classes held throughout the UK,...
Friday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
David Lemm: Debris and Phenomena. The first solo exhibition by David Lemm, presenting a new body of printed works produced at Edinburgh Printmakers and whilst on an artist's residence on Eigg; the works continue...
What’s On In Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 12TH JANUARY 2015
Timmy Time Programme 15: Timmy Finds Aliens, and other stories. Join Timmy and his friends for three fun adventures in this collection of classic Timmy Time episodes. Toddler Time is a...
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