Edinburgh International Festival 8th-31st August 2008

Unmissable, colourful, explosive dance from Batsheva Dance Company.

Listen to Edinburgh International Festival Director Jonathan Mills talk about the production I Went To The House But Did Not Enter by Heiner Goebbels with The Hilliard Ensemble.

The video features an interview with lead dancer Richard Winsor and clips from the hit dance show which runs at The King's Theatre until Saturday 30 August. The performance is based on the famous story from Oscar Wilde. 

See clips of this edgy production from Sarajevo's East West Theatre Company. Through the volatile central characters the audience bears witness to what happens when disenfranchised teenagers are abandoned by society.

A whirling ceremony and Turkish mystical music performed by the world's leading group of Whirling Dervishes and musicians.

Highly energized, daring and humorous dance from Israel's Batsheva Dance Company in a programme of works devised to showcase the breadth of Ohad Naharin.

Watch a clip of Muziektheater Transparant's propduction Ruhe. The show also includes music from Collegium Vocale Gent and two stunning performaces from actors Dirk Roofthooft and Carly Wijs.

Director of the National Theatre Company of Scotland, Vicky Featherstone, discusses the production before its  world premiere at EIF 08

Vicky Featherstone, Director of the National Theatre of Scotland, takes us through the 3rd week of rehearsals before the world premiere of 365 opens at EIF 08

A murderer rants on a staircase, pursued by shadows as the heart of his victim continues to beat beneath the floorboards.

A murderer rants on a staircase, pursued by shadows as the heart of his victim continues to beat beneath the floorboards.

A barely conscious poet is haunted by memories and is forced to face up to his life, his art and his mortality.