# Ballet at the Edinburgh International Festival: history and repertoire, 1967–1976

Ballet continued to be a significant part of the Edinburgh International Festival during the third decade of the festival. However, in a period which saw increased concerts, staged operas, dramas and exhibitions, there was actually a reduction in the number of ballet companies coming to the festival, from 19 in 1957–1966 to 12 in 1967–1976.
Also relatively fewer performances were at the Empire Theatre, with the smaller King's Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, and Church Hill Theatre all being used as alternative venues.

## List

| Date | Company | Ballet | Venue | Choreographer(s) | Principal dancers |
| 1967 | New York City Ballet | Bugaku, Movements for Piano and orchestra, Tarantella, Ragtime, Apollo, Donizetti Variations, Concerto Barocco, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, Meditation (Tchaikovsky), Agon, Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet, Ebony Concerto | Empire Theatre | George Balanchine, John Taras (Ebony Concerto) | Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Conrad Ludlow, Patricia McBride, Arthur Mitchell, Edward Villella, |
| 1968 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | Toccata, Reflections in D, Black District, Revelations, Congo Tango Palace, Credo, Metallics, Prodigal Prince, Jorney, Icarus, Knoxville: Summer 1915 | Church Hill Theatre | Alvin Ailey | Judith Jamison, Dudley Williams, George Faison, Michael Peters |
| 1969 | No ballet performances | | | | |
| 1970 | Nederlands Dans Theater | Squares, Five Sketches, Nouvelles Aventures, Imaginary Film, Situation, Brandenburg, Solo for Voice 1, Mythical Hunters | Lyceum Theatre | Jaap Flier | |
| 1971 | Royal Danish Ballet | The Lesson, Carmen, The Lifeguards on Amager, Conservatoire, The Young Must Marry, Jeu de Cartes, Night Shadow | King's Theatre | Balanchine, Bournonville, Cranko, Flemming Flindt, Petit | Kirsten Simone, Anna Laerkesen, Henning Kronstam, Flemming Flindt |
| 1972 | Ensemble National du Senegal | | Lyceum Theatre | Maurice Sonar Senghor | |
| 1973 | Hungarian State Ballet | The Miraculous Mandarin, Spartacus | King's Theatre | László Seregi | Victor Fülöp, Ferenc Havas, Adél Orosz, Lila Pártay, Victor Róna, Vera Szumrák |
| 1974 | Kathakali Dance Troupe, The Udyogamandai Kathakali Theatre | The Man-Lyon and the Rise of Ravana, The Ramayana, The Sons of Pandu, The Mahabharata | Lyceum Theatre | | |
| 1974 | Bat-Dor Dance Company | Requiem for Sounds, Metallics, Palomas, The Wait, Couple, Movements in a Rocky Landscape | Church Hill Theatre | Gene Hill Sagan, Paul Sanasardo, Manuel Alum, Michael Descombey, Rudi van Dantzig | |
| 1975 | The Royal Ballet | Raymonda (Act III), Grosse Fuge, Romeo and Juliet (Balcony Scene), Prodigal Son, Concerto, Giselle, The Dream, Apollo, El amor brujo | King's Theatre | | Margaret Barbieri, Alain Dubreuil, Stephen Jefferies, Ann Jenner, Nicholas Johnson, Brenda Last, Vyvyan Lorrayne, Rudolf Nureyev, Lynn Seymour, Lois Strike, Marion Tait |
| 1975 | Nikolais Dance Theatre USA | Triple Duet from Grotto, Foreplay, Cross-Fade, Temple, Suite from Sanctum, Scenario | Lyceum Theatre | Alwin Nikolais | |
| 1976 | Ballet of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Passacaglia op 1 by Webern, Der Tod und das Madchen, Symphony no 3 (Scriabin) | King's Theatre | John Cranko, Erich Walter | |
| 1976 | Twyla Tharp Dance Company | Give and Take, The Duet from the Rags Suitre, Sue's Leg, The Bach Duet, The Fugue, The Eight Jelly Rolls | Lyceum Theatre | Twyla Tharp | |