Balé de Rua: Baila Brazil, London
This showcase of Brazilian street dance and music originated in a modest community project, designed to introduce theatre skills to the impoverished favelas of Uberlândia. Now, displaying a stageful of high production values, the show’s 14 dancers and four musicians celebrate the cultural vibrancy of Brazil in a combination of samba, hip-hop and the fiercely elegant acrobatics of the martial art form capoeira. With choreography by Marco Antonio Garcia and musical direction by Pedro Ferreira, its work has established itself as part of the fast-expanding dance scene in Brazil, and has already inspired a programme of free schools and dance training.
Royal Festival Hall, SE1, to 15 Aug
Dance at the Fringe, Edinburgh
One of the themed strands of the fringe this year is a focus on Korean dance, and its programme is headlined by one of the country’s leading contemporary dance companies. EDx2 presents a double bill of works, jointly titled One Fine Day (Assembly Hall, to 31 Aug), which inflects the liquid athleticism that is characteristic of Korean choreography with playful humour and intimacy. Elsewhere, from London comes the experimental company PanicLab, with its latest work RIOT (Zoo Southside, to 31 Aug), a satirical sci-fi comedy inspired by recent protests against austerity, and by a superhero fantasy of ordinary people gaining control of their destinies.
