Archive
We at Dancemakers are continually adding and widening the information in our archive to help share its five decades of history.
Over the summer of 2025, we will be updating more events from the company’s archive. If you would like to contribute information about past events, please get in touch!
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
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 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
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
Future Dances
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
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
Dancing in Dufferin Grove
Join Sanjukta to discuss Tagore’s Poetry in Dufferin Grove Park.
Dufferin Grove Park
Jul 13, 2024 – Jul 13, 2024
Pushmakers Town Hall
A town hall about manual wheelchair dance in Canada
Online
May 31, 2024 – May 31, 2024
Engaging in Repertoire
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
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
20 Grains of Rice
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!
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
Describing Dance Panel
A conversation on dance access, in particular for the blind / low vision community.
Online
Dec 10, 2022 – Dec 10, 2022