The first highlights of the 2026 Edinburgh International Festival feature some of the world’s leading performers of music, opera, dance and theatre, reflecting the International Festival’s central role in shaping in Edinburgh as a world capital of culture every August. Leading the line–up are the Berliner Philharmoniker, Zurich Opera House, San Francisco Ballet with Floating Points and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and theatre-maker Christiane Jatahy with actor Wagner Moura (Narcos, Elite […]
Dance Review: Staatsballett Berlin
November 18, 2024 by
Berlin is a very lucky city for its vast, colourful and accessible cultural landscape. One pillar of this is the Staatsballett Berlin. New artistic director Christian Spuck started the season 2023/2024 with his work, the fabulous BOVARY, based on Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. With his prima ballerina Weronika Frodyma as his muse and collaborateur […]
Peaky Blinders and Rambert: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
January 18, 2022 by
A new dance theatre event, from the global hit television series Peaky Blinders, will have its world premiere at Birmingham Hippodrome, where it runs from 27 September to 2 October and then moves to London’s Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre (12 October – 6 November) before embarking on a 2023 tour. Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of […]
BEATS ON POINTE – Street Meets Ballet
April 9, 2019 by
The dance spectacular from Australia that fuses street dance and ballet returns to the Peacock Theatre, London May 21st to June 16th 2019 as part of a worldwide tour. Two dance worlds collide in Beats on Pointe, as a high- energy cast of classical ballet and street dancers go toe-to-toe in this mash-up of dance styles while the soundtrack of […]
