The First 16 Years

Carol Anderson was a founding member of Dancemakers in 1974.

She performed with the modern dance company for 15 years. She acted as the company’s artistic director from 1985-1988 and choreographed notable works such as Windhover (1983) and Polyhymnia Muses (1988).

Anderson started her performing career with Judy Jarvis’s first company; she has also collaborated with Toronto Independent Dance Enterprise, and she continues to choreograph for the Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre.

In 2024, Dancemakers turned 50 years old.

This was a time of crucial and critical looking back for Dancemakers. As a way to commemorate this anniversary, we worked with Artist Researchers to read “against the grain” of our archive, which is housed at Dance Collection Danse (DCD) located at 2 Carlton St Unit 1303 in Tkaranto.

Each artist researcher was given a one-week (paid) Writing Residency at Dance Collection Danse (or remotely using DCD’s digital archives) with the intention to produce content that will permanently live on Dancemakers’ website.