"Dance Umbrella bills itself as a festival of all things dance. Now just three years shy of its half-century, over the years it has brought to London a mind-blowing variety of dance makers and performers, both established and untested, national and international. And it never ceases to evolve. Under the directorship (2013-2021) of the late, lamented Emma Gladstone, it unapologetically stretched its boundaries to become more umbrella than dance."
"Its current director, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, has followed the trend by opening the festival to all manner of experimental artists. He also introduced a digital programme running side by side with the live festival. So, for the whole of October this year's edition of Dance Umbrella, DU25, will take over many London venues for performances and panel discussions, with its parallel digital programme accessible online wherever you are in the world."
"The festival opens at Sadler's Wells East with the UK premiere of Bogota (2 & 3 October). Originally from Colombia, now based in Montreal, Andrea Pena & Artists present a show billed as visceral, transgressive and magnetic though it'll be up to you to decide precisely how magnetic it really is. More physical theatre than dance, its nine performers run through political transformations in Colombia, the whole liberally dosed with magic realism."
Dance Umbrella approaches its fiftieth anniversary and presents a wide range of international and emerging dance makers. The festival evolved under Emma Gladstone to embrace multidisciplinary work and now continues expanding under Freddie Opoku-Addaie. A parallel digital programme runs alongside live events, making the festival accessible worldwide. DU25 runs throughout October across multiple London venues with performances and panel discussions. The season opens at Sadler's Wells East with the UK premiere of Bogota by Andrea Pena & Artists, a nine-performer piece blending physical theatre, political transformations in Colombia and magic realism. The Barbican hosts a double bill including La Chachi and Random Taranto, which culminates in raw flamenco.
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