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DigitalSarah Blanc Class Ceiling
This immersive episode invites reflects on how dance and class identity can shape careers
Dance Umbrella Festival 2025
London's festival of groundbreaking international and UK dance took place last autumn on stages across our global city and online.
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DigitalGary Clarke A Miner’s Gala
A conversation exploring resilience, creativity and how dance can tell working-class stories
Until 30 Nov 2025
DigitalBen Duke Artist Encounters: Making Text Move
An interactive talk exploring the craft of storytelling through words and movement
Until 30 Nov 2025
DigitalSites of Meaning: Culture and the Global City
Exploring how culture, memory and migration influence our experience of place in the world
Until 30 Nov 2025
DigitalArts & Class
Panel discussion exploring how class shapes opportunity, access and visibility in the arts
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalVincent Sekwati Mantsoe Choreographer’s Cut: Men-Jaro
The legendary South African artist reflects on how he created his defining work
What you missed
2 - 3 Oct 2025
Live performance
Sadler's Wells East
Andrea Peña & Artists BOGOTÁ
A brutalist landscape with movement inspired by Colombia’s political and spiritual heritage
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalAndrea Peña & Artists 6.58: MANIFESTO
A striking choreographic triptych that interrogates the boundaries between the artificial and the human
4 Oct 2025
Live Workshops & Events
Brixton House
Brixton House Takeover with CASA Festival
A day of workshops and events celebrating movement, community and perseverance
8 - 9 Oct 2025
Live performance
Barbican Pit
Lilian Steiner & María del Mar Suárez/La Chachi Change Tempo
Double bill featuring a solo that plays with seduction and illusion, plus a raw, electric flamenco duet
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalRachel Krische & Laura Griffiths Dancing Class: Moving Stories of Levelling Up
Podcast interview series on the challenges & triumphs of pursuing dance amidst class inequalities
11 Oct 2025
Industry event
Sadler's Wells East
BULLYACHE , Lost Dog, Sung-Im Her, and Yinka Esi Graves & Poliana Lima Studio Sessions 2025
Introducing dance artists based in England to promoters from the UK and abroad
12 Oct 2025
Film screening
Barbican Cinema
HSIEH I-Hsuan & Emily Shin-Jie Lee Dance Umbrella Film Series: Sunday Shorts
A feast of short international films with a particular focus on Taiwanese filmmakers
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalA Curation of International Short Films Between Breath & Lens
A curation of international films, exploring movement in its most expansive and evocative forms
16 Oct 2025
Live performance
Barbican Hall
Les Arts Florissants & Amala Dianor Company Gesualdo Passione
A modern creation inspired by music from the controversial 17th century composer
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalAmala Dianor Company & Grégoire Korganow Nioun Rec
A film blending urban, contemporary and African dance in a modernist architectural masterpiece
18 - 19 Oct 2025
Live performance
Porchester Hall
Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira Repertório N.1
A bold choreographic act of resistance, where the body becomes a site of defiance and disruption
21 - 22 Oct 2025
Live performance
The Place
Tjimur Dance Theatre bulabulay mun? / how are you?
A deeply moving story of a community confronted by the power of wind and waves
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalTjimur Dance Theatre bulabulay mun?
A poignant meditation on history, nature and the enduring will to remember
24 - 25 Oct 2025
Live performance
Shoreditch Town Hall
Elena Antoniou LANDSCAPE
A bold solo confronting the politics of looking, where self-objectification becomes a radical act
2 Oct - 30 Nov 2025
DigitalCuration from London International Screen Dance Festival Dance in Focus
A selection of some of the most inventive and curious short dance films from around the world
