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Gravity-defying aerial circus exploring imminent doom and destruction. Entropic visions, ghostly entities, imploding stars and radioactive dust - is this prophecy or fantasy?

Crazed astronauts battle it out for supremacy of the Earth; a survivor throws off his hazmat and contorts to radiation sickness; forgotten androids dance an endless duet... meanwhile a lone woman is pursued into the air by a shadowy figure that bears an eerie resemblance to Death himself. But all is not lost, as out of the debris a brave new world is forming.

Featuring amazing routines on trapeze, hoop, silks, rope and dance trapeze, Tales of the Apocalypse offers its audience a jaw-dropping adventure through various apocalyptic scenarios. Twisted, terrifying, stunningly beautiful and downright hilarious, this is circus cabaret as never seen before.

Tales of the Apocalypse was premiered over two weeks in the Shunt Lounge, London 2009, where it received critical acclaim and was Time Out’s Critic’s choice.

Film noir meets circus in a sky-high detective thriller: mysterious blondes, enigmatic clients, murder, mayhem and madness all collide in a quest for the truth. Gripping narrative woven into a spectacular visual feast for all ages.

NOIR is aerial physical theatre extraordinaire. A dramatic thriller, set in the 1940s taking ‘film noir’ as its motif, NOIR fuses the disciplines physical theatre and circus. Eleven aerialists take to the stage using cargo nets, trapeze, rope, silks and aerial hoop to tell the twisted tale of a detective desperately searching for the woman he loves in a vicious underworld fraught with danger.

After a sell-out run at the Albany, London 2007, NOIR went on to wow packed audiences at Glastonbury 2008. This version has been specially designed and adapted for the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe.

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KAMUI’s theme for Festival Fringe 2008 is “the soul of the Japanese samurai.” The troupe will embody real samurai soul and bring an artistic and action-filled show to life with authentic performances of martial arts and intense battles among legendary sword masters.

The show also includes a humorous performance in which some members of the audience are invited onto the stage. Samurai Spirit ends with a special piece featuring the performers in black suits interacting in a beautiful dancing-style reminiscent of the fight scenes from “Kill Bill Vol. I”. A wide variety of weapons will be used in the show including Japanese swords, long-handled swords, double swords, spears, as well as Japanese fans and umbrellas.

Another unmissable chance to see SDT's stunning double bill - DOG and tenderhook.

‘Scottish Dance Theatre are among the most personable dancers now working in Britain’ The Times

DOG by Hofesh Shecher is raw, witty and sophisticated; an exciting new work by one of the UK's most talked about choreographers. His work features cinematic soundtracks, rich physical language and engaging atmospheres.

‘Crammed with ideas and wit, this is dance for the mind as well as the senses’ The Guardian

Tenderhook has inspired the same devotion as LUXURIA, Liv Lorent’s first piece for SDT, had at venues across the country. Featuring music by the multi award winning Italian film composer Ezio Bosso, tenderhook is a mesmerising and epic search for ‘perfect love’.

‘It moved me to tears it was so beautiful’ Audience member , Autumn ‘07

80 minutes of breathtaking non-stop performance as Nigeria¹s legendary company make their Fringe and their International debut with ŒOFUM¹ (Whirlwind of Dances) ­ sensational, contemporary blend of 11 traditional stories showcasing the true beauty and power of Africa¹s dance heritage.

Celebrate 75 years of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers by joining the Fly Right Dance Company for the Legendary Tea Dance. Here you will be led through the basics of an elegant Foxtrot or Waltz, as immortalised on the silver screen, and after a brief masterclass and cocktails, time will be allocated for participants to practise their newly-acquired dancing skills!

The company's trademark performance style is based on subtle, precise expression. Polaris tells the story of two men on an Antarctic pilgrimage. Meet heroes, fish, penguins, seals and snowstorms in a gripping tale of solitude, friendship, values and wait for help.

DOT 504 is the first Czech professional contemporary dance group. It puts equal emphasis on technique, the expressive and physical aspects of contemporary dance and narrative. Holdin’ Fast is a phenomenally choreographed, dreamy ballad of sexual dependency inspired by Milan Kundera`s Unbearable Lightness of Being.

The international award-winning company Skutr is one of the best of the new generation of Czech theatre companies. Their crossover work combines physical theatre, acrobatics, drama, music and puppetry. The Weepers is a playful show of raw emotion, live singing, sparkling energy and highly physical acting power, blessed with humour and metaphor.

Direct from a sell-out Paris season, the UK premier of Brazilian dance and percussion spectacular. Featuring and exhilarating blend of Capoeira, hip hop and original music, this street ballet will have you dancing in the aisles. Tracing the rhythm from Brazil’s African roots through to modern day fusion, don’t miss this exciting and energetic Brazilian compagny.

Since it was discovered at Biennale de la Danse in Lyon in 2002, Bale de Rua (Street Ballet of Brazil) has done several triumphing tours in Europe (including 7 weeks at Mogador and Trianon theatres in Paris in 2006 and 2008).

Devired from hip hop, street dance, Capoeira and Samba, Bale de Rua is also influenced by the African roots and daily life of the dancers, most of whom have survived by doing odd jobs in the favelas

With original music which they have composed along with Vincent Artaud, Pedro Ferreira and Nana Vasconcelos and well-known Brazilian melodies, the dancers create a blaze of percussion. Blessed with prodigious cleverness and communicative energy, they deliver their message of hope and joy through the choreography of Marco Antônio Garcia . In this eponymous show, created during artistic collaboration with the French director Paul Desveaux, the Bale de Rua tells the Afro-Brazilian story of a group from the working class districts of the city of Minas Gerais in Uberlandia – the story of friends who paint the world anew, in glorious technicolour, thanks to the magic of dreams and dance, a world in the image of Brazil.