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Welcome to CanDance
The Canadian Network of Dance Presenters

We are Canada's national network supporting the creation and distribution of contemporary dance. Our 43 members across the country are professional dance presenters. Members cooperate on commissioning and touring projects, showcases and professional development. Through these activities, the network furthers the Canadian public's access to dance and enjoyment of dance events.

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Recent News

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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