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Assembly @ Dance Base, Edinburgh
A sunny mashup of music accompanies choreographer Marc Brew’s feelgood coming-of-age story

Marc Brew made the acclaimed show An Ac...

Edinburgh film festival
A taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film

Scottish Ballet, under the direction of Christopher Hampson and Oscar Sansom, gives us an engrossing dance riff on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The title alludes to Friar L...

A play based on the writer’s dreamlike novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is touring the world, riding a wave of interest in Japanese culture. Its creators talk about how they adapted the famously cryptic tale

Tatsuya Fujiwara is no stranger to London’s Barbican theatre. It was here nearly 30 years ago that one of Japan’s biggest film stars, now 44, m...

Paris is Burning gets a South American update in a film that shows the Brazilian scene as a space of solidarity and tension

Originating among the Black, Latin and trans communities in 1960s New York, queer ballroom culture has not only entered the mainstream but also travelled well outside the United States. In recent years, a movement has flourished in the Brazilian ci...

From big-name standups to dance performances and experimental plays, here are our picks for an excellent festival

‘If you’d done that ...