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Your support makes all the difference.You may think you're too old for the circus, but Momentary Fusion's Stung is a trapeze act with a difference. Isabelle Rocamora and Sophy Griffiths combine music and aerialism in a manner that defies definition - so much so that they have rendered themselves virtually unclassifiable by the Arts Council which likes things tidy. Stung, a highlight of this year's Edinburgh Fringe, is at Continental Shifts at St Bride's from 11- 30 August.
One of numerous other Fringe performances that trade on circus skills is the well-established Gandini Juggling Project, a two-handed act whose work is choreographed by the Siobhan Davies dancer Gill Clarke. The latest piece, Septet, is at St Bride's from 18 to 29 August.
The Kosh is no stranger to the trapeze - or funding difficulties. Its performing life has always been inhibited by critics who feel an irresistible compulsion to rhyme Kosh with "tosh" - often with justification. The company has spent its life on the brink of financial ruin, despite its considerable appeal to the cabaret-going classes. Their latest mix of song, dance and acrobatics, Three Point Turn, is at the George Square Theatre from 20 to 29 August.
Away from the sawdust, Compagnie Yvette Bozsik returns to Edinburgh with Hommage a Mary Wigman, at the Famous Grouse House from 20 to 30 August, a distillation of the life and work of the legendary German expressionist dancer and choreographer.
Meanwhile, fellow fringe regular Will Gaines taps his way through another celebration of jazz hoofing at Graffiti from 7 to 30 August.
Much of the rest of the Fringe programme promises less well. Shakti is a half-Japanese artiste widely touted as a highly erotic experience but who is, in fact, a queasy cross between a lap dancer and a Pan's Person. She will be delighting this year's Fringe audiences with her latest outrage, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. If her past form is anything to go by, you'll wish you were in it.
For telephone bookings to these and other Fringe shows, call 0131-226 5138. The Fringe programme is also on the Internet at http://www.edfringe.com
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