Mandate
As presenters, our primary value is to encourage audiences to attend and thus positively consider dance as an important expression of contemporary Canadian culture. We recognize our broader responsibility for arts development. We support dance that challenges and educates audiences. As members of the CanDance Network, we seek partnership opportunities and actively support open communication and information sharing. We are also inclusive in our approach to expanding The CanDance Network and welcoming new members.
Mission
To strengthen Canada’s presenting and artistic community by encouraging cooperation in the dissemination, public appreciation and commissioning of dances that reflects our pluralistic cultures and aesthetic points of view.
Vision
The CanDance Network's vision for Canada is for a nation where dance performances are increasingly valued by informed, enthusiastic audiences in communities in every region of the country and abroad. Our task as a network is to use our collective resources to influence and enhance the appreciation of dance performance in Canada.
Board of DirectorsPresident: Bernard Sauvé (General Manager, Dance Victoria, Victoria)
Vice President: Michael Caldwell (Associate Artistic Director at Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal) Treasurer: Gerry Morita (Artistic Director, Mile Zero, Edmonton) Members of the Board: Margaret Grenier (Executive and Artistic Director, Coastal Dance Festival, Vancouver) Leslie McCue (Freelance curator, artist and arts administrator, Toronto) Cathy Levy (Executive Producer, National Arts Centre, Ottawa) Liliona Quarmyne (Director, Kinetic, Halifax) Marie-Hélène Julien (Artistic Director, La Rotonde, Québec City) Casimiro Nhussi (Artistic Director, NAfro Dance, Moving Inspirations Dance Festival, Winnipeg) |
StaffExecutive Director: Ann-Marie Williams
Administative and Program Manager: Kathy Baxter Communications and Program Manager: Devanshi Mishra |
CanDance's member-created definition of diversity:
The CanDance Network considers diversity to be the recognition that artists take as their inspiration a multiple of culturally-derived sources, either in a exclusive (one source) or mixed (or hybrid) sense. This specificity may be based on language, ethnicity, race or religion, and may include cross-cutting characteristics such as gender, sexual orientation, and range of ability and age. It is a recognition that Canadian professional dance has historically been dominated by Anglo-Saxon and French-Quebec culture, with First Peoples and non-Official Language immigrant cultures occupying a rather invisible presence on Canadian stages, until relatively recently.
Download the CanDance Network's Presenter Code of Ethics:
| code_of_ethics_ratified_oct._17_09.pdf |
Complaints Policy
| code_of_ethics_complaints_policy_final.pdf |
