The Dance Centre highlights Arts Umbrella Dance Company in Discover Dance! series, November 28

Performance at noon features exciting young artists from Arts Umbrella’s renowned training program

SPONSORED POST BY The Dance Centre

Arts Umbrella Dance Company. Photo by Michael Slobodian

 
 

The November edition of The Dance Centre’s popular and long-running Discover Dance! noon series features the exceptional young dancers of the Arts Umbrella Dance Company.

The program at the Scotiabank Dance Centre on November 28 at 12 pm will include new and innovative contemporary ballets created by Canadian and international choreographers. There will be an artist talkback after the show.

Arts Umbrella Dance Company is a pre-professional repertory company consisting of more than 60 dancers in a renowned training program. Acknowledged for their professionalism and dedication, graduates have gone on to work with companies across North America and Europe, including Ballet BC, Ballets Jazz Montréal, Nederlands Dans Theater, The Batsheva Ensemble, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, and Grand Théâtre de Genève.

The Dance Centre has presented the Discover Dance! series since 2002, highlighting the diversity of B.C.’s dance scene in an informal, accessible format.

Tickets and more details are at The Dance Centre.


Post sponsored by The Dance Centre.

 
 
 

Related Articles

Featured
The Dance Centre highlights Arts Umbrella Dance Company in Discover Dance! series, November 28
The Dance Centre highlights Arts Umbrella Dance Company in Discover Dance! series, November 28

Performance at noon features exciting young artists from Arts Umbrella’s renowned training program

Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Nutcracker returns to Ballet BC this holiday season
Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Nutcracker returns to Ballet BC this holiday season

Famed Tchaikovsky ballet with added Canadian elements lands in Vancouver from December 13 to 15 and—for the first time—Surrey on November 23 and 24

At the Chutzpah! Festival, life changes bring new nuance to Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick's Fortress
At the Chutzpah! Festival, life changes bring new nuance to Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick's Fortress

Strength and vulnerability meet in new work inspired by the choreographer-dancers’ mothers and grandmothers

Applications open for Louise Bentall Biennial Award for Emerging B.C. Choreographers
Applications open for Louise Bentall Biennial Award for Emerging B.C. Choreographers

The 2025 prize is worth $10,000 to research, develop, or produce new work

At Ballet BC, Crystal Pite grapples with shadow figures in Frontier's Vancouver premiere
At Ballet BC, Crystal Pite grapples with shadow figures in Frontier's Vancouver premiere

On the DAWN program, the renowned choreographer reimagines a work whose black-hooded puppeteers embody the unknown

In Kin, AJ Simmons and Kelty McKerracher navigate queering the art of flamenco
In Kin, AJ Simmons and Kelty McKerracher navigate queering the art of flamenco

Performance at Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival sees artists break away from traditional gendered movements and costumes

Path of Miracles unites Vancouver Chamber Choir with dancers from Belle Spirale Dance Projects
Path of Miracles unites Vancouver Chamber Choir with dancers from Belle Spirale Dance Projects

The a cappella work by Joby Talbot is meant to be seen and heard

Dance reviews: A hallucinatory house of mirrors and a trip to sultry Buenos Aires tango halls
Dance reviews: A hallucinatory house of mirrors and a trip to sultry Buenos Aires tango halls

At The Cultch, Tentacle Tribe gets kaleidoscopically inventive; at the Playhouse, a masterful live band accompanies a show that roots out the soul of Argentina’s beloved art form

Canada’s dance community calls on federal government to increase funding to the arts
Canada’s dance community calls on federal government to increase funding to the arts

As part of the Canadian Arts Coalition’s national call to action, the Canadian Dance Assembly has launched an advocacy campaign

DanceHouse stages Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things), November 22 and 23
DanceHouse stages Compagnie Catherine Gaudet’s Les jolies choses (The Pretty Things), November 22 and 23

Through visceral synchronized rhythms, the full-length work challenges mandatory conformity and cohesion

Dancer Nate Yaffe unmasks his vulnerability and sheds constraints in faith hole
Dancer Nate Yaffe unmasks his vulnerability and sheds constraints in faith hole

Presented by plastic orchard factory, the solo is performed partly in the nude

Heather Ogden performs as Vancouver Ballet Society hosts For the Love of Dance fundraiser, October 26
Heather Ogden performs as Vancouver Ballet Society hosts For the Love of Dance fundraiser, October 26

Benefit at Scotiabank Dance Centre features the principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada

With Social Tango, Buenos Aires's Agustina Videla brings milonga magic to the stage
With Social Tango, Buenos Aires's Agustina Videla brings milonga magic to the stage

With projections and a live band, the show celebrates the inclusivity of Argentina’s essential dance form

Plastic orchid factory stages Nate Yaffe's solo work faith hole, October 25 and 26
Plastic orchid factory stages Nate Yaffe's solo work faith hole, October 25 and 26

Le Radeau production sees Yaffe cultivate an exchange between performer and audience with unguarded emotion and humour

Tentacle Tribe’s Prism makes intricate play with perception
Tentacle Tribe’s Prism makes intricate play with perception

Colour, light, reflection, and hip-hop-influenced moves as Montreal troupe’s kaleidoscopic new piece hits The Cultch

Corporeal Imago’s breathtaking duet Limb(e)s opens The Dance Centre’s Discover Dance! series, October 31
Corporeal Imago’s breathtaking duet Limb(e)s opens The Dance Centre’s Discover Dance! series, October 31

Aerial dance show created by Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes explores the space between holding onto—or letting go of—one another

IBPOC talent in the spotlight as Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency 2024 wraps with showcase October 10 and 12
IBPOC talent in the spotlight as Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency 2024 wraps with showcase October 10 and 12

Six emerging dance artists from Vancouver and Surrey share performances after months of movement and writing mentorship

Ballet BC kicks off its 2024-25 season with DAWN, November 7 to 9
Ballet BC kicks off its 2024-25 season with DAWN, November 7 to 9

Canada’s leading contemporary dance company presents a Pierre Pontvianne premiere, the return of a Dutch choreographic duo, and a large-scale Crystal Pite creation

Dance review: Empty-Handed embraces chaos and pushes to extremes
Dance review: Empty-Handed embraces chaos and pushes to extremes

The Biting School’s new dance work looks at struggle and letting go, with a surreal array of hazard tape, bread dough, mic cords, coffin tents, and more

Margaret Grenier pays tribute to matriarchs in multimedia Raven Mother
Margaret Grenier pays tribute to matriarchs in multimedia Raven Mother

The Dancers of Damelahamid’s most ambitious production to date explores the precious artistic legacy passed down by Elder Margaret Harris

Sky Dancers explores the rich energy of stillness through bharatanatyam and meditation
Sky Dancers explores the rich energy of stillness through bharatanatyam and meditation

At The Dance Centre, Anusha Fernando directs an expressive piece born from a year’s worth of nonhierarchical gatherings

DANCEStir VancouverPartner Content, The Dance Centre, Arts Umbrella