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The First 16 Years

Jul 17, 1974 |

CURATOR
Archive Project
Early Collective

CHOREOGRAPHER
Carol Anderson

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.

read carol’s writing here

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.

Artists

Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson was a founding member of Dancemakers in 1974 and she performed with the company for 15 years.

acCessibilIty

Yes, the venue is wheelchair accessible including ramps into the building, elevators and wheelchair accessible washrooms.

All live events will offer ASL interpretation (upon request). Please contact us to request ASL Interpretation.

This performance does not include audio description.

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