Dance Umbrella Festival 2024, here we go 🚀
London's festival of groundbreaking international and UK dance is back! Join us for spectacular performances on stages across our global city and online.
Featuring:
Abby Z and the New Utility
Adam Seid Tahir
Amina Seid Tahir
de Stilte
Diana Niepce
Hackney Showroom
Hetain Patel
Hugo Glendinning
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
Lea Anderson
Mamela Nyamza
POCKETART
Rosemary Lee
9-31 October | Explore the programme: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/festival/
The Rose International Prize shortlist is revealed
You’ve got the Booker prize for books, Turner for art and launched on International Dance Day – the Rose International Dance Prize, a biennial prize for new dance creations from Sadler's Wells! 🏆🌹
A huge congratulations to the nominees:
- An Untitled Love by Kyle Abraham (USA)
- Larsen C by Christos Papadopoulos (Greece)
- Encantado by Lia Rodrigues (Brazil)
- CARCAÇA by Marco da Silva Ferreira (Portugal)
We are especially excited to reveal that we will be presenting CARCAÇA alongside Sadler's Wells & Big Pulse Dance in London, February 2025 💜
Learn more about the prize: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/2024/04/29/dance-umbrella-announces-new-show-carcaca-by-marco-da-silva-ferreira-shortlisted-for-rose-international-dance-prize/
Celebrating 10 years of the Orbital Tour
Celebrating 10 years of bringing inspiring international dance work to young audiences in outer London boroughs 🥳
First conceived by our former Artistic Director Emma Gladstone in 2014, the Orbital Tour has since become an essential part of DU's annual festival programme ✨
London Battle at Somerset House | Dance Umbrella Festival 2023
When hip hop came to Somerset House's iconic outdoor courtyard 💥
For #DUFest23, Jade Hackett curated London Battle: a huge celebration of hip hop culture featuring workshops, graffiti art and showcases, culminating in an explosive hip hop battle between the four corners of London.
Take a look back at a truly unforgettable day, filmed by The Capsule LDN 🎥
"They want us now, they want us yesterday!"
You can now watch the panel discussion ReWorking Rhythms, which was recorded live earlier this month at Siobhan Davies Studios in London, as part of #DUFest23, in partnership with Independent Dance & Team London Bridge 🎥
We were joined by panellists Raquel Meseguer Zafe, Sho Shibata, Tarik Elmoutawakil and Xan Dye, who discussed access and inclusion when making, performing or producing performance 🗣️
Watch with Digital Pass | Available until 31 Oct: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/panel-discussion-reworking-rhythms/
END OF THE DAY (knowing it doesn't but making it matter)
"Reading nil... Liverpool nil... Queens Park Rangers nil..."
The football pitches at Hackney Marshes are set to the final broadcasts of the legendary radio presenter James Alexander Gordon who reads out an eternity of goalless draw results, in this meditation on loss and gain ⚽️
Watch Graeme Miller's film 'END OF THE DAY (knowing it doesn’t but making it matter)' now with a Digital Pass until 31 Oct | Part of #DUFest23: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/graeme-miller-end-of-the-day/
💦 “The training of dance has a history of brutality to it but often times it is masked with this affect of ease and grace and effortlessness.”
For #DUFest23, the award-winning US Choreographer Abby Zbikowski explores how to create rehearsal spaces that reclaim the brutal rigour that goes into the practice of hyperphysical movement.
Watch the workshop now with a Digital Pass, available until 31 Oct: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/abby-zbikowski-artist-encounters-coaching-as-a-creative-pursuit/
Abby Z and the New Utility
Within My Own Bones is a sound work created by choreographer and dance artist Shyne Phiri & Stopgap Dance Company 🎧
Standing in a room of his home, the tensions of his body and the immediate surroundings are tempered by an awareness of rising sensations.
Listen now with Digital Pass: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/shyne-phiri-dance-tapes-within-my-own-bones/
A beautifully illustrated transcript by Lily Norton accompanies this audio experience, which includes poetic descriptions of the sound and translations.
Plain text transcript also available 📄
Part of Dance Umbrella Festival 2023✨
🥹🦋 Skydiver premiered at the weekend and young audiences & adults alike are already loving it! Here’s what they’ve had to say already about Xenia Aidonopoulou’s magical new dance show 🗣️
You have 3️⃣ more opportunities to see Skydiver in London as part of #DUFest23:
Tue 24 Oct - The Place (Camden)
Wed 25 Oct - Studio 3 Arts (Barking)
Sun 29 Oct - Waterman's Arts Centre (Hounslow)
Book your tickets now: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/skydiver/
Skydiver is a Little Big Dance commission
This is what it means ❤️
BirdGang ltd's new show Family (dys)Function premieres tomorrow at Stanley Arts with two sold-out performances, so let's hear from the participants!
Part of Dance Umbrella Festival 2023 & This is Croydon the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture
On the Way to My Body is a sound work created by Japanese artist Kazuyo Morita & Stopgap Dance Company 🎧
Working between English and her native tongue, she explores the fluid nature of identity, embodiment, space, and perception.
A beautifully illustrated transcript accompanies this audio experience, which includes translations and poetic descriptions of the sound. Plain text transcript also available.
Part of Dance Umbrella Festival 2023 ✨
Listen now with a Digital Pass: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/kazuyo-morita-dance-tapes-on-the-way-to-my-body/
Clip | O Medea by Trajal Harrell
Beginning where Euripides’ tragic Greek masterpiece ends, internationally renowned choreographer Trajal Harrell's O Medea explores the wild grief that our lives produce 🥀 #DUFest23
Channelling the histories of how they have loved, been loved, and been betrayed through the ecstatic rituals of mourning, O Medea considers what it is like to be a woman among other women, expressing the weight of their lives performatively.
Watch the full film now with a Digital Pass, available online until 31 Oct: https://danceumbrella.co.uk/event/trajal-harrell-o-medea/
