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Dance Umbrella

United Kingdom

Dance Umbrella is an annual festival of modern and contemporary dance in London every October, founded by Val Bourne and Jeremy Alliger. First held in 1978, companies such as London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Merce Cunningham Dance Company…

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Dance Umbrella is an annual festival of modern and contemporary dance in London every October, founded by Val Bourne and Jeremy Alliger.

01 · What it is
Dance

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02 · Where & name
United Kingdom

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03 · How it is doing
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04 · Proof & reuse
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Dance Umbrella is an annual festival of modern and contemporary dance in London every October, founded by Val Bourne and Jeremy Alliger.

Where is Dance Umbrella practised or documented?

Sources on this page place Dance Umbrella in United Kingdom.

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The tradition & historical record

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Dance Umbrella is an annual festival of modern and contemporary dance in London every October, founded by Val Bourne and Jeremy Alliger. First held in 1978, companies such as London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, Shen Wei Dance Arts perform at venues across London including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Place, Battersea Arts Centre and the Barbican Theatre.

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Dance Umbrella”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.

Dance Umbrella is festival in the UK, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1

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