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26 August 2008
The Herald asks Batsheva Dance Company choreographer and artistic director Ohad Naharin about why gaga workshops and talking in baby babble is so important to his world class Israeli dance company. Batsheva Dance Company present the high energy dance spectacular Deca Dance 2008 at the Playhouse this Thursday through to Saturday. To see excerpts from this show, click here.
Today's Metro interviews former avant-garde rocker and groundbreaking director Heiner Goebbels about his latest theatre installation I went to the house but did not enter, which has its World Premiere at Festival this Thursday.
Also in Metro today is a Q&A with Persian scholar Dr Alan Williams about The Whirling Dirvishes of Turkey, who perform their mystical dance this weekend. To see a video clip of the Whirling Dirvishes, click here.
Both yesterday's Evening News and today's Scotsman picks tonight's one-night-only concert opera The Enchanted Wanderer - conducted by Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Opera - as their must see show pick of the Festival today. This opera by Rodion Shchedrin is an epic tale of seduction, murder and prophecy, steeped in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church and based on a novella by Nikolai Leskov. There are a limited number of tickets still available for this special on-off Festival even, click here for more details.
In Other Reviews
Aleko and Semyon Kotko Act Three (Usher Hall)
‘unfolds like a long, obsessive crescendo and it worked its effect on the audience, which could barely contain itself at the end.' Financial Times*****
‘You could only marvel at the sweat and fire brought by [Gergiev's] Mariinsky team to music of such malevolent splendour.' The Times ****
Budapest Festival Orchestra (Usher Hall)
‘It was to die for.' The Guardian *****
‘presented with sweep, incisiveness and a gusto that accommodated with ease the heroic splendour of the music as well as its Czech vigour.' The Herald****
Les Arts Florissants / Christie / Von Otter (Usher Hall)
‘Enthralling.' The Guardian****
Irvine Arditti / Rudiger Lotter (Queen's Hall)
‘Arditti took centre stage for an awesomely detailed and riveting performance,' The Herald***
‘An intimate insight into life and death in an all-at-sea society which, while unfamiliar, remains hauntingly real.' The Herald ***
