Music & Dance/Music & Dance Features

Music Listings
If music be the food of love, get ready for romance says Mark Fisher ALEKO AND SEMYON KOTKO Ush...
Dance Listings
Whether you’re looking for cutting edge modern dance or classical ballet, there’s a world of choice ...
My Edinburgh
Camille O'Sullivan is an actress and singer whose interpretations of songs by Jacques Brel, Nick Cav...
The boys from Brazil
In typical fashion, you wait years for a big Brazilian dance show to come to the Fringe, and then tw...
Anything but hard
As one of the world's most exciting choreographers, Ohad Naharin is in constant demand. Which is why...
Cannibal cult
Before Eric Cartman dropped his first swear word there was Cannibal! the Musical, the college movie ...
Portrait of the artist
He's notorious for his exuberant, edgy re-stagings of classic stories, so it's no surprise that chor...



Singing in the key of life
  1. Rigmor Gustafsson first picked up a guitar when she was just seven. Since then she's broken America and is a chart-topper in her native Sweden It's rare for European jazz musicians to gain acceptan...
Georgia on her mind
  1. It was an offer prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvilli couldn't refuse – to return to her native country and revitalise its national company At the tender age of ten, Nina Ananiashvili was forced...
The rose has thorns
  1. He famously put the freak back into freakshow, as the ringmaster of a bloody, funny circus. Now Jim Rose is back with a burlesque extravaganza sure to disgust and delight. The last time Jim Rose wa...
Trash or treasure?
  1. Get your mullet combed and your denim hotpants on, it's time to hitch up to The Great American Trailer Park Musical Eva Price was drawn to the show because of the name. How could she go wrong with ...
Sax appeal
  1. David Murray may be the most prolific saxophonist of his generation, but he's not stopping any time soon. With over one hundred and thirty albums to his name, David Murray might be excused for rega...
  1. The phenomenal success of the Tattoo is partly down to its ability to bring people together, thinks Major General Euan Loudon. There is a display case in the offices of the Edinburgh Military Tatto...
  1. Omar Sosa feels Cuba in his heart, Chopin in one hand and Thelonious Monk in the other. Luckily he loves using his whole body to make music. It's a question straight out of a pub quiz: to which fam...
  1. Ilan Azrial takes a fresh look aluminium with an extraordinary dance show inspired by air-conditioning As a way of keeping cool on a hot, humid day, air conditioning has obvious merits. Less obvio...

 

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