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Light and shadow belong together. But what happens when shadows suddenly develop a life of their own, when they multiply at will, liberated from the laws of physics, to come into the limelight? This delightful show is a journey through an enchanted city, with two pupeteers creating and leading us into the magical universe of shadows, where everyday objects perform their own little dance of freedom. Shadows enter through the back door to steal our things. They get bigger and smaller, they split and merge. They start interacting with the world and the relation between objects and their shadows becomes blurry. It almost seems as if the door to another world has been opened…
The Studio
Adults work. And children play. Or they go to school. Or they sleep. And when they sleep, grown-ups continue working. In the living room. On their computers. Once they’ve cleaned the kitchen. But what do grown-ups really do? Do they put the world to rights? Do they have a nap? Or do they make a mess of things? Do they really have everything under control? A hilarious and absurd tragi-comedy about what happens to grown-ups when children are not looking.
Traverse Theatre
Join us on an adventure, where your senses lead the way. You will become part of a fantastical world where animals, plants and objects are brought to life all around you. Here you can fully be yourself. Here, you are an important part of the eco-system. This immersive, sensory performance will take you into the heart of a living landscape, featuring surround-sound, singing, lights, shadows, scents, water, puppetry and over 300 plants. The show playfully explores our connection with each other and the world around us.
Lyra
Two friends perform breathtaking aerial shows. They fly, spin, hang from the rooftops and fall out of the sky... But they weren’t always so glorious. How did they transform from feeling like outsiders, unable to fit in, to the fantastical creatures they always knew they had inside them? The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy and Tentacle Girl is the touching story of a girl who wants to be a monster and a boy who wants to fly. Exploring the universal yearning to belong and sharing the joy of friendship, this is a dynamic and visually stunning aerial show.
Assembly Roxy
Not falling is an energetic performance in which three dancers try to escape gravity. They fly through space, soar in the air and gently return to the ground. In a fascinating interaction with film projections of children leaping and seemingly floating in slow motion, the compelling performers create a world in which everything seems possible.
Dance Base
Tongue Twister is one man’s attempt to say tongue twisters in as many different languages as possible. Whilst also trying to dance. And make music. And do all the costume changes without leaving the stage. A delight for the eyes and ears, created and performed by award-winning performance artist and musician Greg Sinclair, and featuring dazzling costumes and innovative visual design.
North Edinburgh Arts
On the roof of a Kassena house, a young woman mixes clay and water and starts making marks. Accompanying her is a musician playing the N'goni string instrument. The melodic sound and their voices blend and interweave. Together, they sketch the patterns that will brighten the walls of their houses. Tiébélé echoes the magnificent prints left on their homes by the women of a village in Burkina Faso. It combines earth and song, organic matter and poetry. A creation that links the gestures of these African women to toddlers’ first drawings.
The Lyceum
In this immersive show, two figures dressed in white, walk on a white carpet made of tissue paper. You can hear the sound of the wind and snow crunching under their feet. They playfully awaken what lay dormant, opening the doors to the imagination. Suddenly a pile of papers flutter... birds fly away, the paper leaves transform into a sea raging, moons dancing, a fish spreading its wings, perhaps a dragon...
Traverse Theatre
The pale baron is the great leader of the underwater state. He always grabs the last piece, even before others have been served. He strongly dislikes poets. They mean all kinds of things, in between the lines, in the blank spaces where nothing is written. This makes the baron feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, Felix & Felka are not poets. They are singers.... The Pale Baron is a musical fable about an intimate friendship between two musicians during a regime that hunts down everything or anyone that is deemed superfluous or different.
Traverse Theatre
When we play, anything is possible: the floor is made of lava, objects fly through the air and everyday items take on a whole new meaning. The stool is a raft, a bridge, a tower. It stands on its head, lies on its side, stands on its feet... From an almost infinite selection of possibilities, new worlds emerge, expand and are discarded. But how does one game lead to another? Who decides what happens next? Who makes the rules and how to make the best decision? And what happens if someone doesn't want to take part? Three dancers get involved in this humorous and touching ‘game within a game’, exploring different rules, spaces and choices.
Assembly Roxy
A man and a boy meet on an extraordinary building site, at dawn. Together they dance and play, trying to make sense of it all. Using playground games, joyful dance, risk-taking and mischief, Robbie (45) and Alfie (11) construct and deconstruct their environment and their relationship to each other, forging a space where a more compassionate and caring mode of masculinity can exist.
The Studio
Double You is a circus performance based on the Fear of Missing Out. Five talented artists share two stages, separated by a fabric wall with the audience on either side. Shadows and sounds reach over the curtain. Why are they laughing over there? Are you missing something? Double You is a social experiment around boundaries and identity that combines circus with acro-dance, parkour, Chinese pole and hand balancing. The two simultaneous performances, mutually exclusive yet interwoven, create one universal experience, with every spectator perceiving this exciting circus show in a different way.
Portobello Hall
Welcome to this great, big, tiny world. It may be very old, but for us it’s brand new. Settle in amongst hundreds of real plants, to watch, hear and feel the world come to life all around you. We’re all part of a connected ecosystem, where the magic happens somewhere between us. Filled with beautiful sounds, scents, music, shadows and sensory objects, even the tiniest things play an important part. The world is different, now you are here.
Lyra
Light and shadow belong together. But what happens when shadows suddenly develop a life of their own, when they multiply at will, liberated from the laws of physics, to come into the limelight? This delightful show is a journey through an enchanted city, with two pupeteers creating and leading us into the magical universe of shadows, where everyday objects perform their own little dance of freedom. Shadows enter through the back door to steal our things. They get bigger and smaller, they split and merge. They start interacting with the world and the relation between objects and their shadows becomes blurry. It almost seems as if the door to another world has been opened…
The Studio
Adults work. And children play. Or they go to school. Or they sleep. And when they sleep, grown-ups continue working. In the living room. On their computers. Once they’ve cleaned the kitchen. But what do grown-ups really do? Do they put the world to rights? Do they have a nap? Or do they make a mess of things? Do they really have everything under control? A hilarious and absurd tragi-comedy about what happens to grown-ups when children are not looking.
Traverse Theatre
Join us on an adventure, where your senses lead the way. You will become part of a fantastical world where animals, plants and objects are brought to life all around you. Here you can fully be yourself. Here, you are an important part of the eco-system. This immersive, sensory performance will take you into the heart of a living landscape, featuring surround-sound, singing, lights, shadows, scents, water, puppetry and over 300 plants. The show playfully explores our connection with each other and the world around us.
Lyra
Two friends perform breathtaking aerial shows. They fly, spin, hang from the rooftops and fall out of the sky... But they weren’t always so glorious. How did they transform from feeling like outsiders, unable to fit in, to the fantastical creatures they always knew they had inside them? The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy and Tentacle Girl is the touching story of a girl who wants to be a monster and a boy who wants to fly. Exploring the universal yearning to belong and sharing the joy of friendship, this is a dynamic and visually stunning aerial show.
Assembly Roxy
Not falling is an energetic performance in which three dancers try to escape gravity. They fly through space, soar in the air and gently return to the ground. In a fascinating interaction with film projections of children leaping and seemingly floating in slow motion, the compelling performers create a world in which everything seems possible.
Dance Base
Tongue Twister is one man’s attempt to say tongue twisters in as many different languages as possible. Whilst also trying to dance. And make music. And do all the costume changes without leaving the stage. A delight for the eyes and ears, created and performed by award-winning performance artist and musician Greg Sinclair, and featuring dazzling costumes and innovative visual design.
North Edinburgh Arts
On the roof of a Kassena house, a young woman mixes clay and water and starts making marks. Accompanying her is a musician playing the N'goni string instrument. The melodic sound and their voices blend and interweave. Together, they sketch the patterns that will brighten the walls of their houses. Tiébélé echoes the magnificent prints left on their homes by the women of a village in Burkina Faso. It combines earth and song, organic matter and poetry. A creation that links the gestures of these African women to toddlers’ first drawings.
The Lyceum
In this immersive show, two figures dressed in white, walk on a white carpet made of tissue paper. You can hear the sound of the wind and snow crunching under their feet. They playfully awaken what lay dormant, opening the doors to the imagination. Suddenly a pile of papers flutter... birds fly away, the paper leaves transform into a sea raging, moons dancing, a fish spreading its wings, perhaps a dragon...
Traverse Theatre
The pale baron is the great leader of the underwater state. He always grabs the last piece, even before others have been served. He strongly dislikes poets. They mean all kinds of things, in between the lines, in the blank spaces where nothing is written. This makes the baron feel very uncomfortable. Fortunately, Felix & Felka are not poets. They are singers.... The Pale Baron is a musical fable about an intimate friendship between two musicians during a regime that hunts down everything or anyone that is deemed superfluous or different.
Traverse Theatre
When we play, anything is possible: the floor is made of lava, objects fly through the air and everyday items take on a whole new meaning. The stool is a raft, a bridge, a tower. It stands on its head, lies on its side, stands on its feet... From an almost infinite selection of possibilities, new worlds emerge, expand and are discarded. But how does one game lead to another? Who decides what happens next? Who makes the rules and how to make the best decision? And what happens if someone doesn't want to take part? Three dancers get involved in this humorous and touching ‘game within a game’, exploring different rules, spaces and choices.
Assembly Roxy
A man and a boy meet on an extraordinary building site, at dawn. Together they dance and play, trying to make sense of it all. Using playground games, joyful dance, risk-taking and mischief, Robbie (45) and Alfie (11) construct and deconstruct their environment and their relationship to each other, forging a space where a more compassionate and caring mode of masculinity can exist.
The Studio
Double You is a circus performance based on the Fear of Missing Out. Five talented artists share two stages, separated by a fabric wall with the audience on either side. Shadows and sounds reach over the curtain. Why are they laughing over there? Are you missing something? Double You is a social experiment around boundaries and identity that combines circus with acro-dance, parkour, Chinese pole and hand balancing. The two simultaneous performances, mutually exclusive yet interwoven, create one universal experience, with every spectator perceiving this exciting circus show in a different way.
Portobello Hall
Welcome to this great, big, tiny world. It may be very old, but for us it’s brand new. Settle in amongst hundreds of real plants, to watch, hear and feel the world come to life all around you. We’re all part of a connected ecosystem, where the magic happens somewhere between us. Filled with beautiful sounds, scents, music, shadows and sensory objects, even the tiniest things play an important part. The world is different, now you are here.
Lyra