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Call for Submissions: Ontario-Quebec Coaching for Dance Artists

Do you want your unique artistic vision to be shared across Ontario and Quebec? Would you like more access to networks of presenters and to spaces for your work to be seen? Do you want to strengthen your distribution and marketing tools?
Who we are:
Presentation networks La danse sur les routes du Québec and Ontario Presents, along with The CanDance Network are collaborating with Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) dance artist, Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo, and experienced presenter and arts manager, Lee Bolton, on a new project to promote the work of dance artists from Indigenous and racialized communities through coaching, facilitating communications, and organizing meetings between the artists and presenters in Ontario and Québec.
The Project:
In the spirit of reconciliation and with the desire to increase representation of Québec and Ontario artists who self-identify as members of an Indigenous nation or a racialized community, artists will be chosen to follow this free program from July through December of 2019. The artists will receive assistance through individual consultations, conference calls, marketing advice, promotional material development networking opportunities, and peer sharing, to help support their artistic vision/practice and inform presenters of their work.
We will work with presenters to familiarize them about alternative/diverse/different cultural approaches, methods, and views of dance. The intention is to cultivate new connections, understanding and relationships between these dance artists and presenters.

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Creative Exchange Project

Announcing the 2019-20 Creative Exchange Project! CanDance has awarded funds to This is actively built, a project devised by artist Nate Yaffe, and supported by Studio 303 (Montreal) and Fluid Festival (Calgary). This is actively built supports the political and creative practices of dance artists from the queer community. A five-day research residency will hold space for dance artists from the queer communities in Calgary and Montreal for dialogue, collaboration and creation. It’s the first time this initiative will bring together artists from these communities for an intensive period to articulate the questions, challenges, and dreams they have in relation to their body practices; to engage in mutual education/creative support; and to develop new queer art-making structures.

Québec-Ontario Cultural Exchange Program Artists Announcement

The CanDance Network, La danse sur les routes du Québec and Ontario Presents are proud to welcome Aicha Bastien-N'Diaya, Andrea Pena, Aria Evans, Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Natasha Powell and Nova Bhattacharya in the first cohort of skills development in dance touring and distribution. The participants will be accompanied and guided by Mohawk artist Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo and experienced arts manager, Lee Bolton.

This program aims to promote the work of dance artists from Indigenous and racialized communities by focusing on coaching, peer support, developing promotion materials, and the organization of meetings between artists and presenters in Ontario and Quebec.

This project is made possible thanks to the support of the Government of Quebec, the Government of Ontario and the Conseil des arts de Montréal.

​2018-19 Creation Fund Announcement
August 02, 2018

CanDance is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018-19 Creation Fund.Thank you to all of the applicants; the selection process was competitive with five strong projects.Chosen by a selection panel of CanDance members from coast to coast, the recipients are:
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Dancers of Damelahamid: Mînowin
Small Scale Investment.
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Supported supported by The Cultch, the National Arts Centre, DanceWorks and Neighbourhood Dance Works. Mînowin is a multi-media dance work integrating narrative, movement, song, performance and multimedia design, connecting to landscapes from contemporary perspectives of customary Indigenous dance forms. Mînowin describes how we clarify directions, as we recover and reinterpret the teachings that define and redefine who we are, and that are accessed through story, dance and song. The piece will explore the moments where we connect with one another, moments that bring new life into our artistic practices, the upheaval and rebalancing, and places of renewal for each generation as we redefine ourselves.
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Kidd Pivot: Revisor (working title)
Large scale investment

Supported by Dance Victoria, Danse Danse, DanceHouse and the National Arts Centre. Revisor (working title) is a new dance/theatre hybrid choreographed and directed by Crystal Pite and written by Jonathon Young, based on Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol. Revisor (Working Title) is an adaptation of Inspector General in the traditional sense. Gogol’s farce will be one aspect in a polyphonic work: they will use it to establish the status quo of a multifaceted theatrical landscape, a landscape occupied by farce but resistant to its status as the dominant form.

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