Archive

Dancemakers Guest Curator Abel Hagos selects Toronto’s finest musicians, pairing them established Canadian dancers to explore the themes of play that thread through both improvisational music and dance.

The Bentway
Sep 11, 2025 – Sep 11, 2025

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

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

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

Meridian Arts Centre
Apr 11, 2025 – Apr 12, 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

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

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

A multi-generational pop-up street dance performances at an outdoor shopping mall

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

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

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

SOLA is a contemporary and flamenco dance film created by Inamorata Dance Collective.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
May 28, 2021 – May 28, 2021

This solo performance explores the inter-relationality between land, the artist’s body and her memory and future memory.

Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
May 27, 2021 – May 29, 2021

In 2018, I approached Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv/Klahoose) to ask if he would carve me a mask.

Feb 1, 2021 – Feb 28, 2021

A revised version of her first full-length solo performance “the aisha of is”

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Mar 26, 2020 – Mar 28, 2020

Eating bones and Licking bread works with the body, texture and sound.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Jan 30, 2020 – Feb 1, 2020

Flowchart is a series of multidisciplinary performance presenting short works.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
May 9, 2019 – May 9, 2019

Story-telling, song, movement and our electronic devices in part ceremony, part conference, part confessional.

Scadding Court Community Centre
Apr 27, 2019 – Apr 28, 2019

This solo tracks the perception of pressure.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Apr 11, 2019 – Apr 13, 2019

made in collaboration with Aria Evans, Ana Groppler, Patti Shaughnessy + Brian Solomon

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Jan 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2019

a kinetic sculpture that is transformable into multiple configurations.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Jun 19, 2018 – Jun 23, 2018

SILVER VENUS is an ensemble reconstruction of the feminine persona VENUS.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Apr 26, 2018 – Apr 28, 2018

A vibrant, moving tableau inspired by the vivid pigments of Mark Rothko’s paintings.

The Music Gallery
Mar 9, 2018 – Mar 10, 2018

The work attempts to expose the duality of the ‘natural’ and the ‘artificial’ as a fiction.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Jun 22, 2017 – Jun 24, 2017

Flowchart is a series of multidisciplinary performance presenting short works.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Apr 6, 2017 – Apr 6, 2017

This Desiring Pony is performed by the alter ego SCHPANDO.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Dec 15, 2016 – Dec 16, 2016

Flowchart is a series of multidisciplinary performance presenting short works.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Sep 29, 2016 – Sep 29, 2016

A site responsive, immersive installation that floats between pulsing party and minimalist dreamscape.

Ontario Place – West Island
Sep 15, 2016 – Sep 25, 2016

A facilitated conversation about aesthetics, context and artistic process.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Sep 10, 2016 – Sep 17, 2016

CHRONIC NEED is a work by Alicia Grant in collaboration with Andrea Spaziani.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Jul 30, 2016 – Jul 30, 2016

A work for one performer and one audience visitor & using an architectural structure.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Jun 1, 2016 – Jun 1, 2016

Rosé Porn is a live cinematic sound work in which the audience plays part in making the architectural space.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Nov 5, 2015 – Nov 8, 2015

A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL 2.0 is a work by Alicia Grant with Ellen Furey

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Jul 30, 2015 – Jul 30, 2015

Celebrating Dancemakers 40th anniversary, this new work mines all the ways we encounter ourselves and others in our pursuit of being human.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Mar 26, 2014 – Apr 6, 2014

In response to Lo-Fi in 2012, Michael Trent has relinquished his fall season and handed it over, along with all the authority, to the resident company dancers.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation
Nov 18, 2013 – Nov 24, 2013