AU Tour Dance Company

AU Tour Dance Company, founded in 2024 by Arts Umbrella, is a new professional contemporary dance repertoire company from Vancouver, featuring 14 exquisite emerging dancers. This exciting new performance and creation company features innovative dance works from international choreographers that enhances and utilizes the skills of emerging dancers from British Columbia and around the globe. These beautiful professional dancers, who all graduated from Arts Umbrella’s world renown professional training program, represents the newest generation of artists of virtuosity and power. Under the artistic direction of Artemis Gordon, the company’s repertoire reflects the themes and influences of contemporary art and culture.

Tonight’s performance features an evening of mixed repertoire from 4 international choreographers.

Choreographers:  Fernando Hernando Magaden

do Hernando Magadan is a Spanish dancer and choreographer who has created several works, including pieces for Netherlands Dans Theatre 1 and 2, the Curve Foundation Dance Company (Scotland), Luna Negra Dance Theater (Chicago), Cross Connection Ballet Company (Copenhagen), Ballet Mainz (Germany), Donlon Dance Company (Saarbruecken), Arts Umbrella Dance Company and Ballet BC (Vancouver), and Korzo Theater (The Hague). https://www.fernandomagadan.com/

Sharon Eyal

Sharon Eyal was a performer, associate director, and resident choreographer with the Batsheva Dance Company for many years before becoming an independent choreographer in 2009. Sharon Eyal has created over 30 choreographies for renowned companies worldwide. Her own company, L-E-V, co-founded with Gai Behar, is based in France. https://www.sharoneyaldance.com/en/home

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a Belgian dancer, choreographer, and director. He has made over 50 choreographic pieces and received two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, three Ballet Tanz awards for best choreographer (2008, 2011, 2017), the KAIROS Prize (2009) and the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities (2018). https://www.facebook.com/sidilarbi.cherkaoui.5/

Rebecca Margolick

Rebecca Margolick is a dancer and choreographer based in New York and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Her solo and multidisciplinary works have been represented in Turkey, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Germany, France, Costa Rica, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel, and around the U.S. and Canada. She was named Top 25 to Watch in 2021 Dance Magazine. She danced with Sidra Bell Dance New York from 2012-2016 and currently works as an independent dancer and choreographer, which includes an upcoming creation for the Oregon Ballet Theatre for its 2024 Season. https://www.rebeccamargolick.com/

We gratefully acknowledge our corporate partner for our 2023/2024 season, Couverdon Real Estate. 

Thank you to The Comfort Inn, Campbell River and the Rosedale on Robson Suite Hotel and to Pamela Rosa and Harbour Dance Centre.

Please visit BC Movement Arts Society for more information and for our Powell River and Sointula Dates. www.bcmovementarts.com

Tickets: $34.50 Adult, $32.50 Senior, $30.50 Student, $28.50 Group 10+* (+applicable tax & fees)

*Available through the Box Office only