Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which takes place every year in August, is the biggest global festival of performative arts, and this year Luxembourg has sent four groups to the Scottish capital.
From 1 to 25 August, Edinburgh is in full festival fever. Each August, the Scottish capital becomes the bustling hub of live performances.
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the biggest festival in the world for performative arts. It is most well-known for its openness regarding innovative and experimental projects. The Fringe Festival gives artists from around the world a platform to present their talents.
From theatre and comedy to dance, circus, and opera, every performative act can be expected. The stages offered to artists are not limited to the many theatres and concert halls in the city – performers can turn every street corner, bar, and even church into a stage.
54,474 repetitions of 3,853 spectacles are scheduled to take place during this year's 78th edition of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Luxembourg is also represented once more in Edinburgh, as four dance productions accompanied by Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg have travelled to attend the festival. GO! by Jennifer Gohier, In the Bushes by Lea Tirabasso, score by Isaiah Wilson, and INLET by Saeed Hani are the Luxembourgish additions to the Fringe schedule.
GO!
GO! is a mixture of contemporary dance, martial arts, and digital art. Their performance is a playful choreography for two dancers who combine humour, precision, and the art of movement.
In the Bushes
In the Bushes is a performance meant for six dancers which investigates the theory of evolution, the coincidental species of humans, and the absurd expectation of human individuality. With a raw and grotesque choreographic voice, Léa Tirabasso questions stigmas, shame, and societal conventions.
score
score is a piece by Isaiah Wilson thematising man's intrusion into nature and how technologies disrupt the natural way of life. He uses EMS (electric muscle stimulation) for his choreography in order to send electric impulses to the muscles of the performers. He navigates these impulses through a MIDI piano with twelve keys.
In this way Isaiah Wilson creates a dance that is choreographed by a computer code. The bodies of the dancers are thus overstimulated and they move without the dancers' thinking about it. score raises ethical questions regarding technological advancements that have been developed to simplify our lives. However, it also separates the human from their free will and their cognitive features.
INLET
Inspired by the myth of Romulus and Remus, Saeed Hani delves into the meaning of physical and mental walls throughout the history of man, and their relevance in the modern world.
Choreographer Saeed Hani grew up in the Middle East until the age of 26, where he was confronted not only with physical but also with many moral and intellectual boundaries. In his choreography, he explores this central question: 'How long will walls and borders still be glorified in the world, even though they hinder human progress and deprive people of the right to a free life?'"
In addition to this selection, which is part of the main programme of the Fringe Festival, two Luxembourgish projects are also featured in the professional programme of Fringe 2025:
- Choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess will present an excerpt from her solo piece “WARRIOR” on August 18 and 19 (Fringe Fragments).
- Author and director Larisa Faber will give an insight into her work “The Land We Shared” on August 19 (Summerhall Arts Surgeries).
- The Edinburgh Festival Fringe runs from August 1 to 25, with performances taking place nearly every day.
The full programme of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival can be found here.
