Archive
We at Dancemakers are continually adding and widening the information in our archive to help share its five decades of history.
feed-back: a streetdance show
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
Bringing Us Together
A training workshop, presentation and series of whisper guided dance shows for Blind & low vision audience members.
Theatre Passe Muraille
Aug 15, 2025 – Aug 15, 2025
Palestine All The Time
A 24-hour program at Gallery TPW that brings together Palestinian artists, writers, filmmakers, scholars, and activists.
Gallery TPW
Jul 18, 2025 – Jul 19, 2025
What Can Dance Curation Do?
Our inaugural symposium about Dance Curation.
Critical Disance Centre for Curation & ONLINE
Jul 17, 2025 – Jul 18, 2025
Self Checkout
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
Dance& Solidarity
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
Shoe Dreams Performance Lecture
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
Shoe Dreams Exhibition
The creation of tap shoes of the future and the artists who have dreamed them up.
Gallery 1065
Jun 22, 2025 – Jun 29, 2025
Dance& Abolition
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
Dura : Co-Presentation
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
Embodiments: Exploring Tagore’s Poetic Compositions
An exploration of famed South Asian poet Tagore’s works through dance, sound and poetry.
Meridian Arts Centre
Apr 11, 2025 – Apr 12, 2025
Dance Curation Working Group 2024
Throughout the year, emerging Curators will work with invited guests to discuss various emergent practices found within dance curation.
Critical Distance Centre for Curators
Sep 1, 2024 – Jul 31, 2025
Dancing in Dufferin Grove
Join Sanjukta to discuss Tagore’s Poetry in Dufferin Grove Park.
Dufferin Grove Park
Jul 13, 2024 – Jul 13, 2024
Why Curate Dance?
A panel about dance curation in Canada with practising independent dance Curators.
Online
Jun 21, 2024 – Jun 21, 2024
Reimagining Madness through Reenactment
A 4-day choreographic intensive part of Workman Arts’ 2024 Winter Course Catalogue.
Workman Arts
Jan 9, 2024 – Jan 12, 2023
Bridging Dimensions of Dance
An open conversation and demonstration about the development of Upstairs, In Our Bedroom.
Workman Arts
Oct 28, 2023 – Oct 28, 2023
Upstairs, in our Bedroom
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
Showtime @ Shops
A multi-generational pop-up street dance performances at an outdoor shopping mall
Shops at Don Mills
May 26, 2023 – May 27, 2023