Dancer one jump ahead of the boys

Instead Kamille Upshaw, the only female performer in Rasta Thomas’s company Bad Boys of Dance, shows the heights she and her fellow dancers will hit as they take to the stage in Rock the Ballet at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival.

The New York company’s blend of classical and contemporary dance with daring acrobatics and tongue in cheek choreography is set to a stellar range of hits by stars including Michael Jackson, Prince, Queen, and the Black Eye Peas.

It is music that would undoubtedly have the audience dancing in the aisles, assuming they could tear their eyes away from the stage at the main hall of the city’s Assembly Hall.

Rock the Ballet’s Edinburgh run continues until August 28.