Dance Umbrella Festival 2025

London's international contemporary dance festival, Dance Umbrella Festival, returns 2nd October -31st October 2025. 

Opening the festival at Sadler’s Wells East this year is BOGOTÁ (2 & 3 Oct). Visceral, transgressive and magnetic, Andrea Peña & Artists’ UK debut production constructs a brutalist landscape out of choreography inspired by Colombia’s political and spiritual heritage.

Change Tempo (8 & 9 Oct) heads to the Barbican in 2025 to introduce London audiences to two distinctive artists set to make their mark, while challenging expectations of dance. This year’s dynamic pairing of artists are known for pushing the boundaries of their forms. In Siren Dance, Stockholm-based Australian artist and Cullberg dancer Lilian Steiner plays with seduction, illusion and shifting truths while Spanish flamenco dancer and actor María del Mar Suárez/La Chachi’s Random Taranto turns the everyday into something extraordinary.

Also at the Barbican this year is Gesualdo Passione (16 Oct), which blends a cappella singing with expressive movement. Choreographed by Amala Dianor, Les Arts Florissants’ Gesualdo Passione is a modern creation inspired by 17th century composer Carlo Gesualdo’s work, conducted by Paul Agnew. 

This year marks a world premiere from collaborators Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira, showcasing their final work of the Repertório trilogy. Repertório N.1 will perform at Porchester Hall. Drawing on postcolonial, gender and race studies, the Repertório trilogy interrogates the mechanisms of brutality and attempts to dismantle them.

The festival will then close with live performances from Tjimur Dance Company and Elena Antoniou at The Place and Shoreditch Town Hall respectively. Dance Umbrella has also produced and curated a selection of innovative dance films, a panel discussion and unique encounters with this year’s festival artists.

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