Fringe 2024 – Top Picks: Dance and Circus

Circus Baobab: Yé!
Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows, 3-24 Aug (not 12, 19), 2.05pm

The debut show from Circus Baobab, an innovative troupe of artists from Guinea and the diaspora. Expect acrobatics, human pyramids, hand-to-hand combat, contortions and more, set to an infectious rhythm.

The Flock and Moving Cloud 
ZOO Southside, 13-25 Aug (not 19), 6.20pm

Scottish Dance Theatre returns with a double-bill of celebrated productions: The Flock & Moving Cloud, created by two of the most exciting female choreographers on the European dance scene: Roser López Espinosa and Sofia Nappi. 

Lewis Major: Triptych
Assembly @ Dance Base, 2-25 Aug (not 5, 12, 19), 9.40pm

The rising star of Australian dance, Lewis Major, collaborates with his company and mentor, Russell Maliphant OBE, in three unique repertoire pieces, which fuse light, movement and design to investigate poetic possibilities, life cycles and universal rhythms.

Show Pony 
Summerhall, 13-26 Aug (not 19), 10.35am

Berlin-based still hungry’s brand new work, co-created with groundbreaking performance artist Bryony Kimmings, examines the dualities and challenges of life on stage for three female acrobats. 

What songs may do...
Assembly @ Dance Base, 6-11 Aug, 7pm

The first contemporary dance production by choreographer Mathieu Geffré with his company Rendez-Vous dance, set to the music of Nina Simone. Two dancers expose the fractured relationship of a once romantic couple, celebrating love in all its diversity.

Tennis 
ZOO Southside, 13-25 Aug (not 19), 2.30pm

DON GNU return to the Fringe with their new show Tennis, part of the #DANISH programme. DON McEnroe and Björn GNU face each other once again, in an action-packed mix of slapstick comedy and beautiful dance, set in Wimbledon, 1980.