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Understanding Dance
See Dance: Where to find it
Dance Performances in Canada & Around the World
- If you are a dance aficionado, go to see dance.
- If you have never seen a live dance performance, try it out.
- If you are unsure about it, start with something more familiar.
- If you have seen one show and you hated it, don't be discouraged.
You'll like some pieces and you'll dislike others, but you'll never know unless you try. Get out there and see as much dance as you can. Somewhere along the way, you might just fall in love with dance.
To find dance performances in Canada and around the world, click on these links to:
You can also:
- Get a first glimpse by viewing dance on video.
- Keep an eye out for posters in your neighborhood.
- Scour the listings section in the local newspaper.
- Ask for information from local dance organizations.
- Find the dance performances that are happening near you.
Dance Festivals in Canada
Banff Summer Arts Festival, Banff, AB
Canada Dance Festival Ottawa, ON
CanAsian Dance Festival, Toronto, ON
Dancing on the Edge Festival, Vancouver, BC
Encore International Dance Festival, Trois-Rivières, QC
Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, Saint-Saveur, QC
Festival of New Dance, St. John's, NL
Fringe Festival of Independent Dance Artists (fFIDA), Toronto, ON
Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, Guelph, ON
Moving Pictures Festival, Toronto, ON and Tours Canada
Push International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver, BC
SooRyu Dance Festival, Toronto ON
Square Zero Festival, Ottawa, ON
Vancouver International Dance Festival, Vancouver, BC
International Dance Festivals
Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, Adelaide, Australia
American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, Maine, USA
British Dance Edition (biennial), Leeds, UK
Cadance, The Hague, Netherlands
Czech Dance Platform, Prague, Czech Repbulic
Dance on Camera Festival, Tours USA
Dance Umbrella, London, UK
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Exodos, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Festival Avignon, France
Festival de danse cannes, France
Festival de Marseille, France
Festival international de Montpellier-Danse, Montpellier, France
Holland Dance Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong, China
International Dance Festival, New York City, USA
Impulstanz, Vienna, Austria
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Beckett, Massachusetts, USA
Juli-Dans, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Kuopio Dance Festival, Kuopio, Finland
Lyon Biennale de la danse, Lyon, France
Monaco Dance Forum, Monaco
Moving in November, Helsinki, Finland
New Moves, Glasgow, UK
Panorama Rio Dança, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rencontres chorégraphiques Seine Saint-Denis, France
Russian Contemporary Dance Platform, Moscow, Russia
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Springdance, Utrecht, Netherlands
Tanz im August, Berlin, Germany
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Canadian Venues and Production Companies Presenting Dance
Brian Webb Dance Projects, Edmonton, AB
Centennial Theatre, Lennoxville, QC
Dancers' Studio West, Calgary, AB
Dance Victoria , Victoria, BC
DanceWorks, Toronto, ON
Danse Danse Les Productions Loma Inc, Montréal, QC
Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC
Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, ON
Kala Nidhi Fine Arts of Canada, Toronto, ON
L'Agora de la danse, Montréal, QC
La Rotonde, Québec City, QC
Live Art Productions, Halifax, NS
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON
New Dance Horizons, Regina, SK
New Performance Works, Vancouver, BC
Now Showing Live Art, Lethbridge AB
Peterborough New Dance, Peterborough, ON
Place des Arts, Montréal, QC
Salle Pauline-Julien, Sainte-Geneviève, QC
Series 8:08, Toronto, ON
Studio 303, Montréal, QC
Tangente, Montréal, QC
The Banff Centre, Banff, AB
The Dance Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC
Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK
There are hundreds of theatres around the world that present dance, too numerous to list here. To find more information on dance venues continue your web research on the dance media section of the links page.
Canadian Professional Dance Companies
Bouge de la YA
Canadian Children's Dance Theatre YA
Cas Public YA
COBA YA
Corpus YA
Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company
Katherine Labelle Dance Society
La compagnie de danse Sursaut YA
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
Lynda Gaudreau/ Compagnie De Brune
Margie Gillis Dance Foundation
Menaka Thakkar Dance Company YA
Paul-Andre Fortier Danse-Création YA
Sinha Danse YA
Solid State Breakdance Collective YA
The National Tap Dance Company YA
Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers
