Venues and Artists
The London festival takes place in the autumn with performances at venues including Sadler’s Wells, the Barbican Theatre, Southbank Centre, The Place: Robin Howard Dance Theatre and Greenwich Dance Agency. Recently the festival has also included visits to Laban, Battersea Arts Centre, the Criterion Theatre, TATE Modern, Brick Lane Music Hall and Siobhan Davies Studios.
Since 2007, Dance Umbrella has been staging performances outside of the theatre in spaces such as The Bathstore, Smithfield Market, Clifford Chance and various parks around London.
Dance Umbrella regularly presents international artists on tour in the UK, many of whom have made their UK debuts ‘under the Umbrella’. Recent touring companies have included Merce Cunningham Dance Company (US), Mark Morris Dance Group (US), Rosas (Belgium), Trisha Brown Dance Company (US), Michael Clark Company (UK), Stephen Petronio Company (US), Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company (Israel) and Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu (France).
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“The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledging artists as graying accountants.”
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