Archive

self checkout intensive is for queer performing artists between 14-20 years old interested in committing to a series of creative workshops.

George Chuvalo Neighbourhood Centre
Jul 5, 2025 – Jul 6, 2025

An intro lesson in Dabke: a levantine folk dance practiced by communities in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan & Syria.

Society Clubhouse
Jun 28, 2025 – Jun 28, 2025

Step into the world of tap dance with Rumi Jeraj and Travis Knights as they take you on an engaging journey through the history, artistry, and innovation of tap shoes.

Bata Shoe Museum
Jun 25, 2025 – Jun 25, 2025

The project will document the creation process of tap shoes of the future and showcase the artists who have dreamed them up.

Gallery 1065
Jun 22, 2025 – Jun 29, 2025

What does a world without prisons, police, or carceral punishment look like—and how do we build it?

Society Clubhouse
Jun 21, 2025 – Jun 21, 2025

This performance will mark the closing of this year-long public installation at Garrison Common, Fort York.

Garrison Common at Fort York
May 28, 2025 – May 28, 2025

An exploration of famed South Asian poet Tagore’s works through dance, sound and poetry.

Meridian Arts Centre
Apr 11, 2025 – Apr 12, 2025

A space for queer youth to explore performance in a collaborative space.

What Lab Studio
Mar 22, 2025 – Mar 22, 2025

PIÑA is an interdisciplinary dance work that explores constructions of diasporic identity and how the body carries history and ancestry in a globalizing world.

Toronto Dance Theatre
Mar 22, 2025 – Mar 22, 2025

This is a speculative choreography project in which 9 artists have been tasked with creating a dance for 50 years into the future.

FADO Performance Art Centre (401 Richmond St W Toronto)
Mar 12, 2025 – Mar 15, 2025

A virtual quilt created to give undocumented costumes in the Dancemakers’ archive a permanent home.

Online
Nov 14, 2024 – Nov 14, 2024

The culminating event for the 50th Anniversary Archival Project.

Urban Space Gallery
Nov 14, 2024 – Nov 14, 2024

Wheezy Breezy is an interdisciplinary durational performance that sits in the complexities of navigating our dance practices as disabled artists breathing through the ongoing pandemic.

Regent Park
Aug 2, 2024 – Aug 4, 2024

Join Sanjukta to discuss Tagore’s Poetry in Dufferin Grove Park.

Dufferin Grove Park
Jul 13, 2024 – Jul 13, 2024

A panel about dance curation in Canada with practising independent dance Curators.

Online
Jun 21, 2024 – Jun 21, 2024

A town hall about manual wheelchair dance in Canada

Online
May 31, 2024 – May 31, 2024

A 4-day choreographic intensive part of Workman Arts’ 2024 Winter Course Catalogue.

Workman Arts
Jan 9, 2024 – Jan 12, 2023

An open conversation and demonstration about the development of Upstairs, In Our Bedroom.

Workman Arts
Oct 28, 2023 – Oct 28, 2023

This interdisciplinary performance places Same As Sister’s experiences as female identical twins of color next to the real-life story of outsider authors June & Jennifer Gibbons (a.k.a. The Silent Twins).

Dance Arts Institute
Oct 1, 2023 – Oct 31, 2023

A workshop focused on resourcing our ability to cultivate one’s inner sense of consent and attend to conflict as a generative force in our everyday lives.

The Citadel
Jul 12, 2023 – Jul 14, 2023

Join us for mock-tails and real talk.

The Citadel
Jul 7, 2023 – Jul 7, 2023

The Black Widow, offers methods drawn from her burlesque and artist-activist practices to root and give life to the abolitionist in you.

The Citadel
Jul 5, 2023 – Jul 5, 2023

What is a working agreement? Why and when are they useful?

Online
Jul 4, 2023 – Jul 4, 2023

This session offers a deep dive into creating accessible-affirming experiences within movement-based practices.

The Citadel
Jul 3, 2023 – Jul 3, 2023

Engaging in Repertoire explores and devises new ways of bridging different dancers who are working outside, and inside of Eurocentric dance forms.

Collective Space
Jun 24, 2023 – Jun 24, 2023

Showtime @ Shops was a pop-up performance organized at an outdoor shopping space that is frequented by many people including youth.

Shops at Don Mills
May 26, 2023 – May 27, 2023

Ange Loft leads a cyclical research process through natural time, annual rhythms and Kanien’kehá:ka cycle of ceremonies.

The Railpath Arts Centre
Apr 12, 2023 – Apr 13, 2023

This work explores Kate Kamo McHugh’s family lineage related to the Japanese interment camps.

Toronto Metropolitian University’s Dance Deptartment
Apr 11, 2023 – Apr 22, 2023

A 6 month talk about money, class and the “isms” that work for and against us.

Online
Feb 13, 2023 – Jul 13, 2023

GOODIE BAG! was a week-long installation and event that offered free wellness services and goodies for trans* dancers and performers.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Jan 16, 2023 – Jan 20, 2023

A conversation on dance access, in particular for the blind / low vision community.

Online
Dec 10, 2022 – Dec 10, 2022

this body of work explores critical feminist performance(s) of motherhood and maternal agency through lived bodily/cellular experiences.

The Bank Art House
Dec 1, 2022 – Dec 1, 2022

DIANA ROSS DREAM: A tribute to Black belonging.

Soulpepper Theatre
Jun 4, 2022 – Jun 4, 2022

Lucy Rupert revisits one of Dancemakers’ most well-documented works: Serge Bennathan’s “Chronicles of a Simple Life” as part of our 50th Anniversary.

Nov 5, 1993 – Nov 5, 1993

Raymundo Moreno writes a profile about the legacy of Serge Bennathan who was Artistic Director of Dancemakers from 1990-2006.

Nov 14, 1990 – Nov 14, 2006

Katie Adams Gossage reflects on her own experiences while reading the ‘Yearbook Survey of Dance’ filled out by Dancemakers in 1976.

Nov 14, 1976 – Nov 14, 1976

Freedom of Movement revisits Dancemakers’ 1976 tour of prisons across Southwestern Ontario.

Nov 14, 1976 – Nov 14, 1984

An interview with Mark Hammond, the Dancemakers’ administrator during the early collective.

Nov 14, 1974 – Nov 14, 1977

Mairéad Filgate interviewed 10 dancers from the early years of Dancemakers.

Nov 14, 1974 – Nov 14, 1974

A description of the first 16 years of Dancemakers for the 50th Anniversary Archive Project.

Jul 17, 1974 – Jul 17, 1990