16 Oct 2025
Live performance
Barbican Hall
Les Arts Florissants & Amala Dianor Company Gesualdo Passione
A cappella singing blends with expressive movement in this unique creation for the stage
Dance Umbrella Festival
London's festival of groundbreaking international and UK dance returns October 2025, taking place on stages across our global city and online.
Live performance
What you missed
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Live panel discussion Digital Free
Barbican
Moving with Equity: A panel discussion on body politics Mamela Nyamza, Kelechi Okafor, Azieb Pool
Interrogating discussions around the body, its politics, movement practices and colonial history
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Choreographer’s Cut: MOS Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
A special insight into the creation of MOS, filmed on the set of her sell out show at the Barbican
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Live panel discussion Digital Free
Shakespeare's Globe & Online
Is Theatre Stealing Dance’s Moves? Panel discussion on the role of Movement Director Stella Kanu, Polly Bennett, Yukiko Masui, Shelley Maxwell
How does movement direction differ from choreography, and why the sudden grow in demand?
1 - 2 Feb 2025
Live performance
Sadler's Wells
Marco da Silva Ferreira CARCAÇA
Inspired by rave culture & traditional Portuguese dance; shortlisted for Rose International Dance Prize
9 - 12 Oct 2024
Live performance
Barbican
Mamela Nyamza HATCHED ENSEMBLE
Urgent and subtly spectacular, deconstructing gender norms and Western classical dance & music
11 - 12 Oct 2024
Live performance
The Pit, Barbican
Hetain Patel Mathroo Basha
A reflection on what is lost & transformed, revisiting rituals rooted in Brit-Gujarati working-class experience
9 - 31 Oct 2024
Hetain Patel Animations, 2020
The visual artist and filmmaker explores the body in ways that are only possible through animation
12 Oct 2024
Industry event
The Place
Studio Sessions Jo Bannon, SAY and Tom Cassani, with Hetain Patel
Introducing dance artists based in England to promoters from the UK and abroad
15 Oct 2024
Live talk Digital Free
Trinity Laban & Online
Lea Anderson Artist Encounters
A unique chance to delve into one of the dance world’s most distinctive minds
9 - 31 Oct 2024
Lea Anderson The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele
The world premiere of a film inspired by the sketchbooks of expressionist painter Egon Schiele
16 Oct 2024
Live performance
Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Diana Niepce The Other Side of Dance
A solo which takes a deep dive into dance’s past and the hierarchical principles driving movement
18 - 19 Oct 2024
Live performance
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Abby Z and the New Utility Radioactive Practice
Six performers challenge their physical and mental limits in an explosive, genre-bending new work
9 - 31 Oct 2024
Abby Z and the New Utility Radioactive Practice
A filmed version of the explosive stage work, inspired by street dance & synchronised swimming
9 - 31 Oct 2024
Rosemary Lee & Hugo Glendinning Sentence
Poetic and mysterious, exploring the fleeting nature of dance through innovative filming techniques
22 - 23 Oct 2024
Live performance
The Place
POCKETART Fairy Tales
Exploring femininity & identity, connecting with childhood to reimagine happy endings
9 - 31 Oct 2024
POCKETART Folds of Touch
Inspired by memories of the choreographer’s grandmother, three generations of women perform together
24 - 25 Oct 2024
Live performance
Brixton House
Adam Seid Tahir & Amina Seid Tahir Change Tempo: several attempts at braiding my way home
A solo that celebrates and holds the artists’ multiplicities as queer Afro-Nordic siblings
26 - 27 Oct 2024
Live performance Free
Unicorn Theatre & Potters Fields Park
Dance Umbrella Family Weekend de Stilte / Hackney Showroom
Performances, workshops and arts & crafts for the whole family to enjoy
Other events
1 - 2 Feb 2025
Live performance
Sadler's Wells
Marco da Silva Ferreira CARCAÇA
Inspired by rave culture & traditional Portuguese dance; shortlisted for Rose International Dance Prize
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