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New shows this week ✨

Two brand new shows are joining the programme this week!

☕ Anatomy of Survival by Frauke Requardt and Vivienne Franzmann
📆25-29 August
🕐19:45 (60 min)
🎟️ https://loom.ly/OCEKLxA

A woman walks into a cafe. She orders a coffee. The barista doesn't understand her request. The woman loses her sh*t. Chaos reigns. This is a show for all the nervous systems in the auditorium.

💫DeRuWa / Hazy by The Busan International Dance Festival Organizing Committee
📆26-30 August
🕐13:15 (60 min)
🎟️https://loom.ly/7EpMrSQ

Busan International Dance Festival presents the next generation of Korean choreographers in a double bill featuring Kim Hyung-min’s DeRuWa, where three dancers are propelled by an accelerating beat, and Hwang Jungeun’s Hazy, a captivating, visceral and intimate solo.

Just one week to catch these brilliant shows Assembly Festival @ Dance Base!

https://loom.ly/IUdLBlU

We are over halfway through the festival!

Shows finishing this weekend:

✨Boys Don't Dance by Marc Brew Company
🎟️https://loom.ly/Om8_Sz0

✨40/40 by Two Destination Language
🎟️ https://loom.ly/HfHXUNM

✨not for glory by Jack Anderson, Charlotte Mclean, Malin Lewis
🎟️ https://loom.ly/TBvpgns

Catch them while you can!

https://loom.ly/IUdLBlU

New shows this week ✨

We have six (count 'em) SIX new shows starting at Assembly @ Dance Base today:

Poles by Corpo Máquina Society
18-30 August

A champion pole dance artist. A spider-like steel structure. A live soundscape. At the cutting edge of personal and public space, pole dance virtuoso Yvonne Smink delivers a performance of technical strength and intimacy, choreographed by Guilherme Miotto.

🎟️https://loom.ly/l6Sd-YQ

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40/40 by Two Destination Language
18 - 23 August

An inspiring and moving celebration of Two Destination Language co-artistic director Katherina Radeva’s 40 years as a woman, a migrant and an artist. Claiming space on a dance floor, she dances with joyous abundance and presents stories of her past and present.

🎟️https://loom.ly/HfHXUNM

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If I Can't Dance I'm Not Coming by Karl Jay-Lewin and Matteo Fargion
18 - 27 August

Reimagining Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis as a score for dance, an eclectic ensemble of performers embraces dignity over virtuosity, blending rebellion with humour in a process shaped with clarity and care.

🎟️https://loom.ly/I-BIKPg

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R/evolution(s) by Dance Base Yokohama/Conan Amok
18 - 30 August

A contemporary Butoh work, this piece reimagines Butoh for the present while carrying its inheritance forward. Uniting Conan Amok—heir to the lineage of Dairakudakan, one of Japan’s leading Butoh companies—and contemporary dancers, renewing the form from within.

🎟️ https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/revolutions

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Maiden | Mother | W***e by Theiyā Arts
18-30 August

A mixed media performance with South-Asian contemporary dance, spoken word and visual art. Maiden | Mother | W***e delves into the tensions between individuals and collectives, agency and power, and patterns of oppression and resistance.

🎟️https://loom.ly/mTy0CIE

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Il canto dell'assiolo by Compagnia Bellanda
18-30 August

In the silence of a summer night, a call returns. A duet rooted in Breakin' explores love’s borders—between desire and control, tenderness and violence. Breath, language, and movement intertwine, exposing intimacy as threshold, conflict, and transformation.

🎟️ https://loom.ly/GRTHXbU

This time next week...catch a glimpse of the next big thing at Fringe Fragments!

An industry pitching platform open to audiences, Fringe Fragments spotlights dance makers from Scotland and around the world as they share 15-minute excerpts of tour-ready performances.

This year Fringe Fragments features:

🔥Penny Chivas - Where We Choose To Stand (Scotland)
A dance-theatre show inspired by activism and political change, blending movement, music, real stories and moments of audience connection.
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♾️ Benoit Callens and Alicia Cano - Echos Infinis (Luxembourg)
Bound by a constant physical connection that shifts its point of contact, Benoit and Alicia move through cycles of conflict, support and loss of control to reveal the ways we become trapped, evolve and reconnect.

⭕ Philip Berlin - La Ronde (Sweden)
Performed by Peter and Louise Dahl, La Ronde is explosive yet minimalist. An investigation into circular and rotating dance material, expect spherical leaps, sudden accelerations and a thrilling physical claiming of the entire space.

📆24-25 August
🕐13:15 & 17:30 (45 min)
📍Assembly @ Dance Base

Delivered in partnership with Nordberg Movement (Swe), Kultur lx (Lux) and Assembly Festival

🎟️ https://loom.ly/OcdNJGs

Meet the artists! ✨

Every year, Dance Base supports several Scotland-based dance artists to bring their shows to the world stage, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This year, our supported artists are:

Penny Chivas | Where We Choose to Stand: 7-16 August
LYDC | Common Ground: 11-16 August
Jack Anderson, Charlotte Mclean, Malin Lewis | not for glory: 11-23 August
PRIME | We Are and Common Ground: 6-9 and 11-16 August

There's still time to catch these extraordinary artists this weekend, grab your tickets!

📹 Andre Martins

🎟️https://loom.ly/IUdLBlU

Looking back on the Dance Base x Detours All Styles Street Battle: Saturday 8 August 2026 🔥

34 formidable competitors from across the world, breakin', krumping, whacking, poppin and steppin' their way across the floor...

Huge congrats to Wesley Wing - dancer in Gemini as part of the Hong Kong Soul Showcase and winner of £500 and his spot in the grand final of Detours Cyphers this October!

Dance Base x Detours All Styles Street Battle delivered in partnership with Assembly Festival

📽️Dani Bakkes

This week we have thirteen shows from seven countries in the building...get yourself to Dance Base for reels and revolution, BMX bikes and Bharatanatyam🔥

💫 Basque Showcase: Jarraibiderik Gabe and Trembling Frequencies by Erain and Helena Wilhelmsson
📆 7-16 August
🕐13:00 (60 min)

💫 Boys Don't Dance by Marc Brew Company
📆7-23 August
🕐13:15 (60 min)

💫 Space In Between by Cosmic Dance
📆9-16 August
🕐14:30 (50 min)

💫 Common Ground by Lothian Youth Dance Company & PRIME
📆11–16 August
🕐14:40 (60 min)

💫 Les Échos de la Rue and Sab'r by Detours Festival
📆7-16 August
🕐15:50 (60 min)

💫Celtic Collective by The National Youth Dance Company of Scotland and National Youth Arts Wales
📆7-16 August
🕐16:05 (60 min)

💫Border Bodies by T.F. Cia de Dança
📆7-30 August
🕐17:15 (60 min)

💫 HK Soul Showcase: Gemini and Romantic 4:48am by Justyne Li and Blue Ka Wing
📆7-16 August
🕐17:30 (60 min)

💫 UNDER MASK by Mailantia Dance Company
📆6-30 August
🕐18:40 (40 min)

💫 Taiwan Season: Proximities by LEI Dance Theatre
📆6-30 August
🕐19:00 (50 min)

💫 not for glory by Jack Anderson, Charlotte Mclean, Malin Lewis
📆11–23 August
🕐19:45 (60 min)

💫 Where We Choose to Stand by Penny Chivas
📆7-16 August
🕐20:30 (50 min)

💫 The Renaissance of Spring: Samsara & Shroop by Jajack Movement
📆11-14 August
🕐21:45 (60 min)

Book now! https://loom.ly/IUdLBlU

NEW SHOW ADDED! The Renaissance of Spring: Samsara & Shroop by Jajack Movement 🌂

A captivating contemporary dance double bill exploring resilience and rebirth.

First, Samsara of Blossoms presents a mesmerizing multimedia performance. It merges the Eastern philosophy of seeking winter blossoms with the Western myth of Venus, exploring humanity’s rebirth through real-time interactive art.

Following this, Shroop delivers a profoundly personal, visceral journey. Forged from the choreographer’s own devastating stage accident, it intimately traces the raw process of physical and mental recovery.

Witness an unforgettable journey moving from the universal dawn of spring to the intimate triumph of human survival.

📆11-14 August
🕐21:45 (60 min)
📍Assembly @ Dance Base
🎟️ https://loom.ly/hLyoF8A

Organised and managed by Art Support & Incubation Dept., Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation. Delivered in partnership with

[Video: A light blue frame, overlaid with cream coloured star bursts and text that reads: "The Renaissance of Spring: Samsara & Shroop by Jajack Movement, 11-14 August". Within the frame is video of dancers on stage, lit in dramatic blue lighting, dancing with paper umbrellas.]