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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alice Bain

Ripe

If you're a dancer, old age kicks in at around 40 - even younger for some. So what can we expect from those who might be considered to have skipped over the hill?

Try experience, sophistication, wisdom, skill and beauty - some of the qualities inherent in the four soloists of a certain age performing here.

Namron, a dancer with London's Contemporary Dance Theatre in the 1970s and 1980s, performs almost entirely with his back to the audience. His moves are simple and concentrated. Dedicated to his late father and his missing son, this seven-minute solo shines with humility and dignity in the shadow of grief.

Ellen van Schuylenburch, a Michael Clark collaborator during the 1980s, is a unique artist. Most of Silence, and the best of it, keeps her on the floor, curling and bending like the waning moon to a reverberating soundtrack.

American Stephen Pelton has taken documentary footage of Hitler to pieces to create The Hurdy-Gurdy Man, a haunting piece of repressed emotion and dark resonance, while ex-Rambert dancer Gary Lambert plies pure dance, folding and spinning round his beautifully balanced body to complete a programme full of delicious contrast.

· Until August 22. Box office 0131-225 5525.

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