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Dance Umbrella 2007:
3 October - 10 November
Artists: Paul-André Fortier (Canada); Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant (UK); Nik Haffner and Thomas McManus (Germany/USA); A brief encounter with...Rosie Kay (UK); Siobhan Davies Dance (UK); A brief encounter with...Ben Wright (UK); Compagnie Beau Geste (France); Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company (Israel); Amanda Miller / pretty ugly tanz köln (Germany); Alias Compagnie (Switzerland); Ko Murobushi (Japan); Shen Wei Dance Arts (USA); Thierry Baë / Compagnie Traits De Ciel (France); Charles Linehan Company (UK); Andreja Rauch (Slovenia); A brief encounter with...Stephanie Schober (UK); New Art Club (UK); Splintergroup (Australia); Jin Xing (China); Michael Clark Company (UK)
Talks: A Feeling For Practice; What’s Age Got To Do With It?
Film Screenings: Rhythm Is It!; Dance 4 Films
2007 also included: Dance Umbrella Outdoors and Dance Umbrella Days Out.
Dance Umbrella 2006:
21 September - 5 November
Artists: Merce Cunningham Dance Company; Rosas / Richard Alston Dance Company / Akram Khan Company; Nigel Charnock; Deja Donne; Compagnie Ariadone; The Forsythe Company; Carol Brown Dances; Mal Pelo; Association Noa / Compagnie Vincent Mantsoe; Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion; Stephen Petronio Company; Ricochet Dance Productions; Dansgroep Krisztina De Chatel; Ros Warby; Michael Clark Company; The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs; Martha @ The Wells; girl jonah; Laila Diallo; Vincent Dance Theatre; Selenographica Dance Company; Michael Popper.
2006 also included the series Focus on Rosas and Jerwood Proms: Stand Up For Dance.
Dance Umbrella 2005:
20 September - 8 November
Artists: The Forsythe Company; Siobhan Davies Dance Company; Sylvie Guillem & Russell Maliphant; Josef Nadj; Lyon Opera Ballet; Rachid Ouramdane; Pascale Houbin & Dominique Boivin; Paris Opera Ballet; Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion; Catherine Diverres; Mark Morris Dance Group; Herman Diephuis; Compagnie Maguy Marin; Rosemary Butcher; Ricochet Dance Productions; La Ribot; Boris Charmatz & Dimitri Chamblas; Daniel Leveille Danse; Michael Clark Company; Charles Linehan Company; New Art Club; Christian Rizzo / Caty Olive; Jean Abreu; Rashpal Singh Bansal; Niklas Laustiola.
2005 also included the series France Moves and Jerwood Proms: Stand Up For Dance.
Dance Umbrella 2004:
5 October - 27 November
Highlights: Dance Umbrella 2004 featured: 2 world premieres and 9 UK premiers; Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Barbican and its first UK tour; Mark Morris Dance Group with The Hard Nut at Sadler's Wells;
Sell out performances from Yolande Snaith Theatredance (UK), Mal Pelo (Spain), Phillippe Decoulle (France), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui of Les Ballets C de la B (Belgium/Morocco), David Gordon & Valda Setterfield (USA) and Carol Brown (UK). Visit 2004 subsite.
Dance Umbrella 2003:
28 September - 8 November
Highlights: The 25th anniversary festival, opened with a Birthday Gala at Sadler's Wells, closed with the Merce Cunningham Danvce Company in Anniversary Events at Tate Modern and included: Michael Clark Company; Ballett Farnkfurt; Teshigwara; Joseph Nadj; Rosas; Stand Up for Dance - the 3rd Dance Umbrella Proms at Sadler's Wells supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation; Inbal Pinto Dance Company tour; Vincent Mantsoe tour; Dance Umbrella's artistic director, Val Bourne, recieves the Critics Circle Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance. Visit 2003 subsite.
Dance Umbrella 2002:
10 September - 3 November
Highlights: Dance Umbrella's presenation of Mark Morris Dance Group's production V wins Time Out Live Award for Outstanding Production; Dance Umbrella's presentation of Mark Morris Dance Group wins Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance; Stand Up for Dance - 2nd Dance Umbrella Proms at Sadler's Wells supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Visit 2002 subsite.
Dance Umbrella 2001:
3 October - 10 November
Highlights: 23 years after the first Dance Umbrella, audience members continue to increase, reaching 35,000 at Dance Umbrella '01; Stand Up for Dance, 1st Dance Umbrella 'Proms' at sadler's Wells; Mark Morris Dance Group and Michael Clark Company; Co-presentation of Ballett Frankfurt at Sadler's Wells; 'Artifact and Eidos: Telos'; 2nd Virtual Incarnations; Over 25,000 see the Mark Morris Dance Group tour (sponsored by American Airlines and supported by ACE's National Touring Programming) making it the best attended tour in the company's history; 4th Woking Dance Umbrella festival. Visit 2001 subsite
Dance Umbrella 2000:
18 September - 4 November
Highlights: Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Barbican; Co-production of DV8 Physical Thaetre's 'Can we afford this: cost of living' at Queen Elizabeth Hall; 1st Virtual Incarnations: Dance and New Technology; Trisha Brown Company tour. Visit 2000 subsite
Dance Umbrella 1999: 29 September - 14 November
Highlights: Dance Umbrella's co-presentaion with Sadler's Wells of Ballett Frankfurt's Enemy in the Figure at Sadler's wells wins Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, and the company wins Olivier Award for Oustanding Achievment in Dance for their season at Sadler's Wells; 3rd Woking Dance Umbrella Festival; Mark Morris Dance Group tour. Visit 1999 subsite.
Dance Umbrella 1998: 1 October - 28 November
Highlights: 20th anniversary festival; Site-specific work at British Library: Babel Index; Co-presentation of Ballett Frankfurt at Sadler's Wells; Public appeal launched to raise money for commissions in DU's 20th Birthday Festival; Dance Umbrella's Artsitic Director, Val Bourne, wins Time Out Live Award for Outstanding Achievement; Dance Umbrella's collaboration with ENO in presenting Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed Il Moderato wins Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production; Re-launch of Michael Clark Company at Roundhouse plus regional tour. Visit 1998 subsite
Dance Umbrella '97
Highlights: Stephen Petronio tour; 2nd woking Dance Umbrella festival
Dance Umbrella '96
Highlights: Site-Specific piece at natural History Museum: Genesis Canyon; Dance Umbrella's artistic director, Val Bourne, is awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts st des Lettres; Dance Umbrella wins Time Out Award for Best Production for Genesis Canyon; Dance Umbrella's co-commission of Siobhan Davies' Art of Touch wins Olivier award for Outstanding Achievemnet in Dance; Trisha Brown Company tour; Percussive Festival at Cochrane Theatre
Dance Umbrella '95
Highlights: 1st Woking Dance Umbrella festival; Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Events at Riverside Studios & repetoire at Sadler's Wells; Mark Morris Dance Group tour sponsored by American Airlines; Streb/Ringside tour
Dance Umbrella '94
Highlights: Dance Umbrella 94 sponsored by Haagen-Daz; Two important education ventures: Dance and Technology and Dance Writing and Criticism Dance and Technology develops into Digital Dancing Series; 1st Jerwood Choreography Awards; Stephen Petronio Company tour; Urban Bush Women tour
Dance Umbrella '93
Highlights: 3rd Leicester International Dance Festival; Merce Cumnningham Dance Company's Events at Queen Elizabeth Hall; Operation Riverside: Residency with Siobhan Davies Dance Company; Necessary Weather Choreographic and Lighting course led by Dana Reitz and Jennifer Tipton; Doug Elkins Dance Company tour
Dance Umbrella '92
Highlights: Dance Umbrella wins Prudential Award for the Arts; 1st presentations at Cabot Hall, Canary Wharf: Trisha Brown Company & Douglas Wright & Company; Newcastle Dance '92 Festival.
Dance Umbrella '91
Highlights: Dance Umbrella's artistic director, Val Bourne, awarded OBE in Birthday Honours List; Dance Umbrella wins Digital Dance Award; 2nd Leicester International Dance Festival; Baker's Dozen Gala at Sadler's Wells.
Dance Umbrella '90
Highlights: Dance Umbrella wins Time Out London Award; Dance Umbrella wins Prudential Award for Dance; Launch of Newcastle Dance '90 - festival sponsored by Newcastle Breweries; Dance Umbrella/Time Out Gala at Sadler's Wells featuring London Dance and Performance Award-winners
Dance Umbrella '89
Highlights: 1st Leicester International Dance Festival; Dance Umbrella festival sponsored by Beck's Bier, Dance Umbrella wins Digital Dance Award for commission of new work (Michael Clark and Stephen Petronio); 1st DU co-presentation of Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Sadler's Wells; 1st presentation of Saburo Teshigawara's Karas Company at the Place; Legs Eleven Gala at Sadler's Wells; 1st Dance Umbrella festival performancs at Queen Elizabeth Hall; Group Emile Dubois in Mammame.
Dance Umbrella '88
Highlights: Dance Umbrella's 10th Anniversary Festival sponsored by Beck's Bier, Dance Umbrella birthday gala at Sadler's Wells; Close of Management Service, Dance Umbrella's Artistic Director, Val Bourne, wins Excellence in International Dance Award from British Centre of International Theatre Institute; Launch of London Dance and Performance Awards to mark Dance Umbrella's 10th and Time Out's 20th anniversary; Launch of Siobhan Davies Dance Company at Riverside Studios.
Dance Umbrella '87
Highlights: Dance Umbrella festival supported by Beck's Bier; Dance Umbrella's co-presentation of Trisha Brown Company at Sadler's Wells, wins Olivier award for outstanding Achievement of the Year in Dance
Dance Umbrella '86
Highlights: 6th Danceabout North West festival; 1st presentaion of Stephen Petronio & Dancers at The Place Theatre
Dance Umbrella '85
Dance Umbrella's artistic director, Val Bourne, awarded a 'Bessie' (New York Dance and Performance Award); 5th Danceabout North West festival
Dance Umbrella '84
Highlights: 1st Dance Umbrella festival performances at Sadler's Wells; Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and Bill T Jones & Arnie Zane Company; 1st presentation of Mark Morris & Dancers at The Place; 4th Danceabout North West festival
Dance Umbrella '83
Highlights: 1st presentation of Trisha Brown Company at Riverside Studios; 3rd Danceabout North West festival.
Dance Umbrella '82
Highlights: 1st presenation of Michael Clark & Dancers at Riverside Studios; 2nd Danceabout North West festival; 1st presentation of Anna Theresa de Keersmaker in Fase at ICA
Dance Umbrella '81
Highlights: 1st Danceabout North West festival in Manchester
Dance Umbrella '80
Highlights: 2nd Dance Umbrella festival, thereafter established as an annual event; Management Service Established: First commissioned work (for Extemporary Dance Theatre); First Business sponsorship (Marks & Spencer)
Dance Umbrella '78
Highlights: 1st London Dance Umbrella Festival at Riverside Studios and the ICA |
