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Dance 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).

Dance Umbrella’s co-commission of Siobhan Davies’ Art of Touch wins Olivier award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance

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.

First Feeling for Practice, a discussion on choreographic process with Siobhan Davies and Shobana Jeyasingh.

The 28th festival incorporated the most extensive education and outreach work to date, concentrated around performances by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Stephen Petronio Company and Déjà Donné.



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