Four events at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, supported by Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, confront borders, bodies, and belief through dance, theatre, and interdisciplinary movement at the continent's premier arts festival.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, now in its 78th year, is the largest open-access arts festival in the world. Known for its scale, diversity, and experimentation, it offers a unique platform for established and emerging artists wanting to showcase their act to an eager audience. Running from 1–25 August, the festival will take over every theatre, street corner, bar, rehearsal room, church, and even public toilet (odd but true), the city has to offer.

According to the website of Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, this year’s official selection features four contemporary performances spanning dance, physical theatre and interdisciplinary work, each focusing on the body and space to examine themes of conflict, constraint, and transformation.

GO! Jennifer Gohier

Part-dance, part-martial art, GO! is a two-person performance where rhythm, precision, and humour collide. Gohier brings together live movement and digital design to explore conflict, cooperation, and bodily discipline in a hypermediated environment.

Location: Zoo Southside – 12–24 August at 10am

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Martial arts and dance, Gohier's GO! / © Bohumi Kostohryz

In the bushes: Léa Tirabasso

Tirabasso interrogates the story of evolution and the myth of human exceptionalism. Using her distinctively fragmented and expressive choreographic language, In the bushes examines shame, social norms, and the absurd performance of being human.

Location: Summerhall – 13–25 August at 4.35pm

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In the bushes / © Camilla Greenwell

INLET: Saeed Hani

Drawing on his experience growing up in Syria, Hani’s INLET looks at the role of visible and invisible walls – from border fences to ideological divisions. The piece combines personal history with abstract movement to ask how long societies will continue to valorise boundaries that inhibit basic freedoms.

Location: Dance Base – 1–23 August at 5.30pm

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INLET / © Andrea Galad

Score: Isaiah Wilson

In Score, Wilson strips the stage back to the body and a machine. The piece explores the uneasy co-existence of nature and digitality, presence and mediation. The result is stark and stylised – a quiet confrontation between human form and post-human rhythm.

Location: Dance Base – 12–24 August at 9.40pm

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Score / © Brian Ca

Further events 

Alongside the main programme, two Luxembourg artists will appear in professional showcase platforms at this year’s Fringe. Choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess presents excerpts from her solo work WARRIOR – a study in strength, fragility, and gender expressed through tightly controlled physicality – as part of Fringe Fragments on 18–19 August at 1.15pm and 5.35pm.

On 19 August at 6pm, theatre-maker Larisa Faber takes part in the Summerhall Arts Surgeries, offering a preview of The Land we Shared – "a haunting, humorous meditation on memory, history, and family".