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Batsheva Ensemble, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

There were eight attempts by anti-Israeli protesters to disrupt Tuesday's performance of Deca Dance.

When similar shouting occurred at the Playhouse in August, the Batsheva dancers stood still until the hecklers were ousted. The Ensemble (as the youth wing is tagged) went one better – they kept on dancing, their focus and finesse drawing ever louder cheers and applause. Maybe that poise and prowess comes with the territory that is Gaga, the movement language/philosophy devised by Batsheva's artistic director Ohad Naharin.

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