Arts Umbrella
Nederlandse Dansdagen Internationaal

Choreographer: Lukáš Timulak
Music: “Off the Grid” by Beastie Boys; “Can You Dance For Me” by Hauschka; “Interlude 3 (feat. Hauschka)” by Super Flu
Premiere: Arts Umbrella Dance Company, Vancouver, BC, 2024

Choreographer: Cyril Baldy
Music: Arranged and recomposed by Cyril Baldy - Homage 1770 by María Dueñas, No body by Rp Boo, Live at Tfa 20211214A by Rob Funkhouser, Bero by Anar
Premiere: Arts Umbrella Dance Company, Vancouver, BC, 2024

Choreographer: Astrid Boons
Music composition: Miguelángel Clerc Parada
Lighting Design: Matthew Piton
Premiere: Arts Umbrella Dance Company, Vancouver, BC, 2025

Choreographer: Crystal Pite
Repetiteurs: Eric Beauchesne and Rena Narumi 
Text: Jonathon Young 
Music: Owen Belton, Alessandro Juliani, Meg Roe 
Voice: Meg Roe 
Lighting Design: Originally by Tom Visser, Adapted by Matthew Piton 
Premier: Kidd Pivot, Vancouver, BC, 2019 

Choreographer: Fernando Magadan
Music: “Infinite End” by Maxime Denuc, “Threads Across The River” by Richard Skelton, music editing and arrangements by Ben Waters
Lighting Design: Itai Erdel
Premiere: Arts Umbrella Dance Company, Vancouver, BC, 2025

Choreographer: Stephen Shropshire
Music: “Missa Brevis – I. Kyrie”, “Missa Brevis – II. Sanctus”, and “Missa Brevis – III. Agnus Dei” by Arvo Pärt
Lighting Design: Originally by Alan Brodie, Adapted by Matthew Piton
Premiere: Arts Umbrella Dance Company, Vancouver, BC, 2025

Choreographer: Marco Goecke
Music: “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone
Lighting Design: adapted from Udo Haberland’s original design by Itai Erdel
Originally created for the State Ballet School of Berlin in 2015

Sophisticated, dedicated, and inspired, Arts Umbrella Dance Company is a pre-professional repertory company based in Vancouver, Canada. The company trains, rehearses, and performs new and innovative works by leading international choreographers. Company members are students of the Arts Umbrella Post-Secondary Dance Program. AUDC performs across Metro Vancouver each season, culminating in Season Finale each May – four extraordinary performances at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre. The company has toured to Montreal, Toronto, New York, Japan, and the Netherlands, and participated in exchanges and collaborations with groups such as Yokohama Ballet in Japan, Noord Nederlandse Dans Studio Group in the Netherlands, Joffrey Ballet School in New York City, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Dutch National Ballet Academy, Codarts, and Canada’s National Ballet School. An essential aspect of the Arts Umbrella Dance Company is working with a variety of international guest instructors and choreographers. Dancers acquire a broad movement vocabulary and learn how to understand and respond to a variety of choreographic visions. In addition to the immeasurable benefit of increasing their exposure and adaptability to the contemporary dance environment, these connections with the dance community create opportunities and open doors for our students to begin their careers as dance professionals. 

Arts Umbrella alumni have gone on to dance professionally with companies around the globe, including: Ballet BC, Ballet Edmonton, Ballett Hagen, Batsheva Dance Company, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Konzert Theater Bern, Gauthier Dance, The Gothenburg Opera, Hessisches Staats Ballett, Kidd Pivot, Lyon Opera Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Staatstheater Nurnberg, and the Swedish National Ballet.