Arts Umbrella Dance Company's Season Finale: MOVE features leading choreographers, May 19 to 21
Program includes works by artists including Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, and Fernando Hernando Magadan
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Arts Umbrella Dance Company interprets a range of styles in a program that brings together top choreographers from Canada and around the world. Photo by Mika Manning
Arts Umbrella Dance Company is marking the culmination of months of exploration and rehearsal with Season Finale: MOVE, May 19 to 21 at the Vancouver Playhouse.
The program features bold and innovative works created for dancers by leading International and Canadian choreographers. Ninety dancers—hailing from across Canada and the U.S., and from as far away as Italy, Taiwan, the Netherlands, and Australia—will be taking part.
This year’s program is a rare chance to see works by so many acclaimed choreographers on a single program.
MOVE features choreography by Vancouver’s celebrated Crystal Pite, the creator of internationally lauded works for her own Kidd Pivot and companies such as Nederlands Dans Theater and the Paris Opera Ballet. Also on the roster is Staatstheater Hannover artistic director and NDT associate choreographer Marco Goecke; standout Spanish talent Fernando Hernando Magadan, a former star dancer at NDT.
Canadian choreographers on the program include Ethan Colangelo, Wen Wei Wang, Gioconda Barbuto, Julia Cratchley, Kennedy Kraeling, Roberto Campanella, and Jera Wolfe.
The program features a wide range of styles and influences, whether it’s a creation by Jae Man Joo, former associate artistic director of New York’s Complexions Contemporary Ballet, or by Maiko Miyauchi, codirector of Vancouver’s energized, streetdance-driven OURO Collective.
The evening also offers a chance to discover the choreographic talents of well-known dancers from Ballet BC; Emily Chessa, Livona Ellis, and Zenon Zubyk have all created works for the program.
MOVE marks the end of the season but also the beginning of a new adventure for its emerging dancers: the show is just the first stop on Arts Umbrella Dance Company’s 2022 European tour.
In June, the dancers will perform in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague. Amid their stops: The Hague’s Julidans Festival, a performance with The Dutch National Ballet Academy at Amsterdam’s opera house; and Amsterdam University of the Arts’ year- end festival.
You can find tickets here.
The Arts Umbrella Dance Company is a pre-professional repertory company. The troupe consists of select members of the Arts Umbrella’s acclaimed Professional Training Program and Post-Secondary Programs—sophisticated, top-calibre training that’s flourished under the 30-year artistic leadership of Artemis Gordon.
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