Edinburgh 1980, Festival time - and the first Australian dance company to represent their country on such a great occasion... Lots of apprehensive voices, then one final voice - and very Australian - 'She'll be right, mate'.
This is the story of that optimism: the Australian Dance Theatre, a four-year-old Adelaide company founded by Jonathan Taylor from London's Ballet Rambert, seen not just in Edinburgh, but also at home in the Australian countryside: endless roads, vast landscapes, minute towns, in and out of theatres - the ADT on tour.
With excerpts from ten of their ballets, including recent work by Norman Morrice, Director of the Royal Ballet, and Christopher Bruce, ex-director of Ballet Rambert, and the piece that took the Edinburgh audiences by storm, their light and dance show Wildstars.
The Magic of Dance, £11.75, from bookshops