Images from a global stage

Edinburgh's International Festival sees the very best of the world's dance, theatre and music celebrated through 180 colourful and diverse performances.

Classic brooding Spanish play Barbaric Comedies is one of the showpiece events of this year's festival

The acclaimed New York City Ballet will perform Serenade as one of several pieces from their vast repertoire

Molière's Don Juan receives an ambitious Swedish make-over

Speak For Yourself, as performed by the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT)

The glorious Arcimboldo 2000 from the NDT rounds off this year's dance calendar

Don Juan explores the darkness of its central character who uses sex as a weapon and defies God

New Age from NDT is a playful humorous piece set to cinematic music

The New York City Ballet perform the sassy all-American Western Symphony

Hamlet is played by Angela Winkler, one of Germany's most renown actresses