Dance Umbrella Festival 2025

Dance Umbrella, London’s annual international contemporary dance festival, is delighted to announce the full 2025 Festival programme taking place across London, and online, from 2 - 31 October.

Live programme includes:

UK premiere of Andrea Peña & Artists' BOGOTÁ at Sadler's Wells East.

Sites of Meaning: Culture and the Global City panel discussion at Studio Wayne McGregor.

Brixton House Takeover with CASA - a day of workshops and events at Brixton House.

UK premiere double bill featuring Lilian Steiner's Siren Dance and La Chachi's Random Taranto at Barbican Pit.

Arts & Class panel discussion at Battersea Arts Centre.

Artist Encounters talk with Ben Duke at Shakespeare's Globe Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

Dance Umbrella Film Series: Sunday Shorts curated by HSEIH I-hsuan and Emily Shin-Jie Lee at Barbican Cinema.

UK premiere of Les Arts Florissants & Amala Dianor Company's Gesualdo Passione at Barbican Hall.

World premiere of Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira's Repertório N.1 (venue to be announced).

UK premiere of bulabulay mun? how are you? by Tjimur Dance Theatre at The Place.

UK premiere of Elena Antoniou's LANDSCAPE at Shoreditch Town Hall.

Digital programme available from 2 Oct - 30 Nov and includes:
Films: Andrea Peña & Artists 6.58: MANIFESTO, Amala Dianor Company & Grégoire Korganow's Nioun Rec, Tjimur Dance Theatre's site specific film bulabulay mun?

Choreographers Cut: Vincent Mantsoe discusses his seminal work Man-Jaro.

Exclusive access to episodes from Dancing Class, a podcast by Rachel Krische and Laura Griffiths.

Plus two curations: Between Breath & Lens films from Taiwan and Japan curated by HSEIH I-hsuan and Emily Shin-Jie Lee. Films from the London International Screen Dance Festival curated by Charles Linehan.

Programme also includes recordings of the panel discussions and Artist Encounters.
https://danceumbrella.co.uk/festival/

Image: Andrea Peña & Artists BOGOTÁ Photo: Andrea Peña