Arts:Blog
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Across the Arts on February 24, 2012, at 11.37am
Clare Sinclair finds the fifth dance festival to be a mixed bag.
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Across the Arts on February 13, 2012, at 9.59am
Clare Sinclair enjoys the mix of dance and pantomime elements in the tour of the hit TV programme.
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Across the Arts on January 17, 2012, at 7.37pm
Jo Turbitt is both impressed and frustrated with the long-touring production.
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Across the Arts on January 14, 2012, at 4.26pm
Jo Turbitt reviews Scottish Ballet's latest production, finding it to be a fitting end to mark artistic director Ashley Page's exit from the company.
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Across the Arts on December 5, 2011, at 12.40pm
Jo Turbitt finds much to love in this new interpretation of a classic.
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Across the Arts on December 1, 2011, at 7.43pm
Jo Turbitt is completely enchanted by Plan B's latest.
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Across the Arts on November 27, 2011, at 9.26am
Jo Turbitt finds much to admire in Phoenix Dance Theatre's latest work.
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Across the Arts on November 25, 2011, at 1.29am
Jo Turbitt enjoys an 'honest' evening of dance theatre.
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Across the Arts on November 24, 2011, at 2.34pm
Jo Turbitt find's the production full of unfulfilled potential.
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Across the Arts on November 19, 2011, at 11.34am
Jo Turbitt believes this piece of interactive dance theatre is 'an exhilarating joy' and shouldn't be missed.
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Across the Arts on November 18, 2011, at 3.15pm
Jo Turbitt speaks with the director of Dance:Film about the Festival, its past, present and future.
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Across the Arts on November 18, 2011, at 2.39pm
In the first part, Jo Turbitt speaks with the director of Dance:Film about the festival, their shared love of films featuring dance.
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Across the Arts on November 10, 2011, at 10.55pm
Jo Turbitt reviews an evening of dance that is summed up as 'the dull, the beautiful and the quirky'.
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Across the Arts on October 25, 2011, at 12.48pm
Clare Sinclair reviews the stage version of the classic film.
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Across the Arts on October 21, 2011, at 5.12pm
Jo Turbitt is literally blown away by the international phenomena.
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Across the Arts on October 4, 2011, at 10.51am
Michael Cox looks back on what he saw at this year's performance art festival.
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Across the Arts on September 2, 2011, at 3.04pm
Across the Arts speaks with the artistic director of the Edinburgh International Festival.
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Across the Arts on September 2, 2011, at 3.00pm
Jo Turbitt reviews Princess Bari, Booking Dance Festival, Scottish Ballet and Scottish Dance Theatre: Matters of the Heart.
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Across the Arts on September 1, 2011, at 11.26pm
Michael Cox gives his final review of the Festival by reviewing Alphonse, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Request Programme, One Thousand and One Nights and May I Have the Pleasure...?
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Across the Arts on August 24, 2011, at 1.45pm
Michael Cox reviews Somewhere Beneath it All, A Small Fire Burns Still, Lights, Camera, Walkies, Translunar Paradise, Holly Copter and The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan.
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Across the Arts on August 24, 2011, at 1.40pm
Jo Turbitt reviews The Peong Pavillion and Caligula.
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Across the Arts on August 24, 2011, at 1.32pm
Michael Cox reviews Cloud Man, Allotment, Leo, Alma Mater, Last Orders, Ethometric Museum and The Oh-Fuck Moment.
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Across the Arts on August 24, 2011, at 1.28pm
Jo Turbitt reviews Paper Tom, Alma Mater, Fresher-the Musical and AAA Stand-Up Late.
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Across the Arts on August 16, 2011, at 11.33pm
Jo Turbitt reviews Magicians Do Exist, Coffin Up, The Man Who Planted Trees, Little Howard's Big Show, Fascinating Aida: Cheap Flights, Leo and Men of War.
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Across the Arts on August 16, 2011, at 9.55pm
Jo Turbitt reviews Circolombia, Faulty Towers Dining Experience, Rock the Ballet, Homemade Fusion and Vive le Cabaret.
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Across the Arts on August 15, 2011, at 5.46pm
Jo Turbitt reviews Cloud Man, Teechers, Spent, A Day in November, Godspell and Showstoppers.
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Across the Arts on August 14, 2011, at 12.03pm
Jo Turbitt reviews La Putyka and Fabulous Divas of Hollywood.
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Across the Arts on August 14, 2011, at 12.01pm
Michael Cox reviews At the Sans Hotel, Tonight Sandy Grierson will Lecture, Dance and Box, Snails and Ketchup and Viewless.
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Across the Arts on August 11, 2011, at 12.54pm
Jo Turbitt reviews Federer vs Murray, Free Run and You Once Said Yes.
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Across the Arts on August 10, 2011, at 9.21pm
Jo Turbitt spends the day at Dance Base and is mostly impressed and inspired by what she sees.
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Across the Arts on August 10, 2011, at 10.19am
Michael Cox reviews his first productions at this year's festival: Emergence (***), Drift (*), Bashir Lazhar (****) and Free Run (***).
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Across the Arts on August 6, 2011, at 12.04am
Programming Director James Mackenzie speaks with Across the Arts about ZOO and its rise in Edinburgh's Fringe Festival.
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Across the Arts on August 3, 2011, at 12.20pm
Artistic Director Karen Koren gives Across the Arts an insight into the famed venue she's run for 25 years.
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Across the Arts on July 7, 2011, at 10.39am
Gareth K Vile reports on Prague's cultural delights and festivals.
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Across the Arts on July 7, 2011, at 10.02am
Gareth K Vile gives a detailed analysis to Clark's recent performance, along with his thoughts and reactions on the art of Dance in general.
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Across the Arts on April 24, 2011, at 9.12am
Jo Turbitt offers her verdict on Ashley Page's latest (and perhaps last) production with Scottish Ballet.
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Across the Arts on April 13, 2011, at 8.56am
Jo Turbitt gives her thoughts and insights on the current UK tour.
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Across the Arts on April 7, 2011, at 12.54pm
Gareth K Vile and Margaret Kirk get into a debate over dance and live art.
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Across the Arts on March 21, 2011, at 5.53pm
Gareth K Vile weighs the future of live art and New Territories.
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Across the Arts on March 17, 2011, at 8.37am
Gareth K Vile checks out The Ship and ponders Scotland's cultural life--and how it is (or isn't) covered.
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Across the Arts on March 17, 2011, at 8.20am
Gareth K Vile gives his views on Janis Claxton's Humanimalia.
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Across the Arts on March 17, 2011, at 8.15am
Gareth K Vile gives more thoughts and views on what he's seen at this year's New Territories.
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Across the Arts on March 17, 2011, at 8.05am
Gareth K Vile checks in with his views on the latest work by Iona Kewney and Jack Webb at New Territories.
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Across the Arts on December 4, 2010, at 2.40pm
Gareth K Vile checks in with more events at the Traverse's festival.
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Across the Arts on December 4, 2010, at 2.34pm
Gareth K Vile looks at some of the productions that happened in this year's festival.