Dance Umbrella announces third event in the 2025 festival and debut partnership at Sadler’s Wells East.
Dance Umbrella, London’s annual international contemporary dance festival, is delighted to announce the third event for the 2025 festival. BOGOTÁ, inspired by Colombia’s political and spiritual heritage, will make its UK debut at Sadler's Wells East on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 October 2025.
Opening the festival this year, BOGOTÁ is choreographed by Andrea Peña & Artists including Nicholas Bellefleur, Charlie Prince, Jo Laïny Trozzo-Mounet, Marco Curci, Jontae McCrory, Erin O’loughlin, Francois Richard, Frédérique Rodier and Chi Long.
Visceral, transgressive and magnetic, Andrea Peña & Artists’ UK debut production BOGOTÁ constructs a brutalist landscape. With striking intensity, nine performers chronicle transformations between chaos and rebirth, incarnating the tensions of ever-unfolding and turbulent histories. Offering a raw, physical experience of mutation and ultimately resurrection, BOGOTÁ delves into inherited mythologies in order to consider how origins are embodied and mortality is expressed through the endless cycles of existence and death.
This hybrid work employs the company’s trademark use of movement as a vehicle for storytelling, embarking on an esoteric journey through a universe charged with magical realism. It uncovers passageways to transcendence, honouring the rebellion of deviant bodies and paying tribute to resilience within the post-colonial era.
Dance Umbrella Festival 2025 will take place in October, across London and online. Further shows to be announced in the coming months before the full festival LAUNCH in June.
Listings
Venue: Sadler's Wells East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, E20 2AR
Date: Thursday 2 - Friday 3 October 2025, 7.30pm
Admission: Tickets on sale 19 May; £15 – £25
Sadler's Wells East is fully accessible
Further Information: Dance Umbrella