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Dance Base announces its 21st festival programme showcasing Scottish dance talent on the world’s biggest arts platform, and bringing internationally renowned artists to the Scottish capital: 33 companies from 12 countries present 39 dance and physical theatre shows exploring and celebrating life and the human condition through themes of sexuality, disability, climate crisis and feminism. Some of the highlights include Tess Letham’s Remedy for Memory, a feminist dance fantasy, and Rob Heaslip’s Strawboys merging the worlds of traditional Balkan dance with contemporary music.

The 2022 programme is the final Dance Base programme curated by Morag Deyes MBE who led Dance Base as the Artistic Director between 1994 and 2021.

Tickets are now on sale on dancebase.co.uk

The Week in Pictures: Rocks, straw, and more

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Peter Ranscombe takes a light-hearted look at some of the images that caught the eyes of Scottish Field's writers this week, from rocks to straw…...

Vigil among Scottish winners at Celtic Media Festival

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BBC television series Vigil was among the Scottish winners at this week's Celtic Media Festival. Last summer's programme, set on a nuclear submarine, won the...

Disney's The Lion King, première 30 oktober 2016 in het AFAS Circustheater Scheveningen, cast: Naidjim Severina (Simba), Gaia Aikman (Nala), David Goncalves (Mufasa), Jorrit Ruijs (Scar), Gugwana Dlamini (Rafiki), Barry Beijer (Zazu), Steve Beirnaert (Timon), Kobe van Herwegen (Pumbaa), Juliann Ubbergen (Banzai), Naomi Webster (Shenzi), Maarten Smeele (Ed), Charmaine Yard (Sarabi), ...... (kleine Simba), ...... (kleine Nala)

REVIEW: Disney’s The Lion King show is a roaring success

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Having experienced the show’s cacophony of colour and sound, Rosie Morton challenges anyone to sit through Disney’s The Lion King and not be moved to...

Outlander author in book festival line-up

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OUTLANDER author Diana Gabaldon is among the writers who will appear at this summer's Edinburgh International Book Festival. Gabaldon returns to the festival for the...

McIlvanney Prize 2022 longlist revealed

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THE longlist for the McIlvanney Prize 2022 has been unveiled to mark book festival Bloody Scotland's 10th anniversary. Ten books are competing for the £1,000...