{extravote 4} With YAMA, Scottish Dance Theatre treats us to the most original dance work you'll see at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and possibly this year.

Inspired by the paganism and animalistic rituals of Japanese monks, YAMA takes us on a journey peopled by faceless masked dancers with matted dreadlocked blond wigs. The result is baffling, beautiful and striking.

Throughout the opening section, the dancers' face, heads and even upper bodies are obscured, which allows Jalet to focus intimately on the rest of the dancers' bodies, using the various body parts to create striking imagery; it's rare indeed for hands to take such a prominent role in dance.

With a strong sense of theatricality, YAMA encourages us to see the body, how it can move and be moved in very different ways, especially by stripping the dancers of their identities, and turning them into faceless bodies.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival celebrates the wonderful and the weird, and YAMA certainly qualifies on both scores. Don't try to understand YAMA, just savour its eccentricities, imagery and compelling performances, and enjoy it as the sum of its many parts. Even if it's something we don't understand, we're allowed into the world of Scottish Dance Theatre's dancers for an hour, and that's no small thing.

YAMA is at Zoo Southside daily at 7.50pm until 29 August.