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Opoku-Addaie is only the fourth artistic director in Dance Umbrella’s 43 years, following Val Bourne, Betsy Gregory and Emma Gladstone. The annual London festival is a reliable highlight in the dance calendar, from its early days giving the first exposure to Mark Morris, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Michael Clark to recent years uncovering contemporary ice skaters Le Patin Libre and acclaimed choreographer Oona Doherty. Opoku-Addaie’s mission is to “widen the centre”, meaning to broad...

British Art Show 9 Announce New Opening and Tour Dates   / / The long-awaited opening of British Art Show 9 has been announced by Hayward Gallery Touring. Aberdeen will be the first stop then touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth. The artists presented in the exhibition respond in critical ways to this complex context British Art Show 9, will now be opening in Aberdeen, Scotland on 10 July 2021 and touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth. The British Art Show is the b...

From Sadler’s Wells, a Sampler of British Dance The context of the pandemic provides “Dancing Nation” with the common themes of loss, touch and confinement. A scene from the Belfast choreographer Oona Doherty’s “Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus,” part of Sadler’s Wells’s “Dancing Nation.”Credit...BBC Arts/Sadlers Wells Jan. 28, 2021 When one door closes, another opens. During the pandemic, that maxim has acquired a corollary for concert dance: When theater d...