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We support a range of events created by new Curators each year, from workshops to dance shows, community building and discussions.

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Dance& Freedom

Dance & Freedom: A 4-part contemporary dance workshop using sorcerer-inspired movement to explore themes of political resistance and dance for camera, culminating in a short dance video.

The Citadel
May 9, 2026 – May 30, 2026

Soil Study

Soil Study is an ongoing series of discursive experiments, processes, interventions and conversations between the human body and soil memory.

High Park
May 30, 2026 – May 31, 2026

Making Soil Into Paint

Learn how to process raw earth materials by grinding, washing and drying to achieve fine pigments that are suitable for paint-making.

High Park
May 30, 2026 – May 30, 2026

The Practice Of Visiting

Guests are invited to spend an afternoon in conversation and visiting with one another, inspired by Indigenous relational practices.

High Park
May 30, 2026 – May 30, 2026

Prescribed burn walk & talk

Walk High Park with photographer Zackery Hobler as he points out evidence of prescribed burning, discusses the process, and how it benefits the park’s black oak savannah.

High Park
May 31, 2026 – May 31, 2026

Wheels That Move

Pushmakers is creating the first online training program for manual wheelchair dancers in Canada

Online
Jun 30, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026

Dance Curation Working Group 2025

Throughout the year, dance curators will work with invited guests to discuss various emergent practices found within dance curation.

Critical Distance & Online
Jun 30, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026

Co-presentations

Through our Curators in Community Fund, we support independent dance Curators working in sites and locations where dance needs to happen.

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GOODIEBAG! at Paprika

GOODIE BAG!, curated by Celia Green, returns in celebration of The Paprika Festival’s 25th Birthday supported by our Curators in Community fund

Native Earth Performing Arts
May 15, 2026 – May 15, 2026

Art + Science

A casual night of experimental dance, science, storytelling, black holes and casual conversation about the edges of what we can know supported by our Curators in Community fund

Swansea Town Hall
Jun 12, 2026 – Jun 12, 2026

pAst eventS

View and experience the traces from the performances Dancemakers has supported since 1974.

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Cross Play

A two-month residency where dancers and live musicians explore together.

Youngplace
Apr 16, 2026 – Apr 16, 2026

Dance& Alchemy

We explore the alchemical potential of a mixture of qigong, taijiquan, narrative meditation, calligraphy, poetry, and somatic translation.

CineCycle
Apr 13, 2026 – Apr 13, 2026

Trans Day of Visibility

Join the Queer Nerd Collective for a sparkling, rhinestoned, all-trans cast cabaret fundraiser for a community member: the incomparable Roz Poutine supported by Dancemakers’ Curators in Community Fund.

Cake Cabaret
Mar 31, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026