2017-2018 Season at a Glance


  • SCREEN:MOVES

    SCREEN:MOVES

    A screening program of dance films and videos, Conceived by the RT Collective and presented in collaboration with Dancemakers Monday, December 3, 2018 | 7 to 9 pm Dancemakers Centre for Creation9 Trinity street, Theatre Studio 314Toronto’s Distillery Historic District Pay-What-You-Can only at the doorCash bar Screen:Moves invited artists from across Canada to create original… Read…


  • The Talking, Thinking, Dancing Body

    The Talking, Thinking, Dancing Body

    Co-Presented by Dancemakers, the Toronto Dance Community Love-In & the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – Ontario Chapter Tuesday, May 29, 2018 |6 PM – 8 PM Dancemakers, Theatre Studio 3139 Trinity StreetToronto’s Distillery Historic District The Talking, Thinking, Dancing Body (TTDB) is a facilitated conversation about aesthetics, context and artistic process. Initiated in 2012 by… Read…


  • Silver Venus

    Silver Venus

    Dancemakers Artist-in-Residence Andrea Spaziani Created and performed with Irvin Chow, Alicia Grant, Julia Male, Francesca Chudnoff, and Nicole Rose BondMusic by Matt Smith. Created with Claire Turner-Reid Asked & Answered We’re turning to the artists with a series of interview questions for the team. Dancemakers: Andrea, could you talk about how this work relates to… Read…


  • Chronic Need (Work-in-Progress)

    Chronic Need (Work-in-Progress)

    CHRONIC NEED is a work by Alicia Grant in collaboration with Andrea Spaziani. CHRONIC NEED addresses something that’s always there, something that’s always missing. It’s a dance at the intersection of need and perception. CHRONIC NEED is looking at each other, looking at you and looking at us. CHRONIC NEED borrows techniques from qi gong, ouija boards… Read…


  • Bloodletting

    Bloodletting


  • multiform(s) Amanda Acorn

    multiform(s) Amanda Acorn

    The Music Gallery and Dancemakers present A Double Bill Featuring Amanda Acorn’s multiform(s)&Open Fortress The Music Gallery has a long history of presenting innovative combinations of music and dance. We shared our home at the Great Hall (1984-91) with Danceworks and since then, not a season has gone by without some element of dance gracing… Read…


  • Technical Residency: Anisa Tejpar

    Technical Residency: Anisa Tejpar

    Anisa Tejpar was Dancemakers` 2017-2018 Technical Resident Artist and she was in the Theatre Studio in November 2017 working on in time, a full length, contemporary dance solo for Anisa, choreographed by acclaimed choreographer Hanna Kiel, with an original score by John Gzwoski, video design by Jacob Niedzwiecki, set design by Joe Pagnan, and lighting design by… Read…

September 11 to 30, 2017

Resident Artist Andrea Spaziani in Residence 

October 2 to 15, 2017

Anandam Dancetheatre‘s Contemporaneity, a partnership project with Dancemakers. More information here.

October 16, 2017

Level Two Adult Beginner Contemporary Dance Classes, with Amelia Ehrhardt. More information here.

October 18, 2017

Level One Adult Beginner Contemporary Dance Classes, with Amelia Ehrhardt. More information here.

November 7, 2017

Dancemakers Kitchen Table Conversation # 1: DOES THE WAY WE WATCH DANCE CHANGE WHEN INTERDISCIPLINARY ELEMENTS ARE INTRODUCED? More information here.

November 9, 2017

Flowchart # 1, multi-disciplinary artists show their work. A Pay-What-You-Can performance supported by The George Lunan Foundation. 

November 13, 2017

Call for Artists Deadline: Le Switch Échange de residence/Residency Exchange. Submissions now closed. 

November 13 to 24, 2017 

Anisa Tejpar‘s Technical Residency. More information here.

December 4, 2017

SCREEN: MOVES, a screening program of Dance Film & Video, conceived by The RT Collective and presented in collaboration with Dancemakers. More information here

January 15 to 22, 2018

Plug ‘n’ Play Winter Residency. Submissions now closed.

January 15 – February 19, 2018

Adult Contemporary Dance Classes: MECHANICAL INVESTIGATION More information here.

January 16 – February 20, 2018

Adult Contemporary Dance Classes: CHOREOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION More information here.

January 25, 2018

Flowchart # 2, multi-disciplinary artists show their work. A Pay-What-You-Can performance supported by The George Lunan Foundation

February 15, 2018             

Flowchart # 3, multi-disciplinary artists show their work. A Pay-What-You-Can performance supported by The George Lunan Foundation 

March 9 & 10, 2018

Resident Artist Amanda Acorn’s multiform(s), co-presented with The Music Gallery. Amanda’s Residency is supported by The Hal Jackman Foundation

April 2 – 28, 2018

Resident Artist Andrea Spaziani‘s creation period for Silver Venus. More information here.

April 16 – May 21, 2018

Adult Contemporary Dance Classes: MECHANICAL INVESTIGATION More information here.

April 17 – May 22, 2018

Adult Contemporary Dance Classes: CHOREOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION More information here.

April 25, 2017

Dancemakers’ Kitchen Table Conversation # 2: IN AN EVER-CHANGING ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE, HOW DO WE ATTRACT AND RETAIN AN AUDIENCE? More information here.

April 26 – 28, 2018

Resident Artist Andrea Spaziani‘s World Premiere of Silver Venus More information here.

May 21 – June 24, 2018                  

Resident Artist Lee Su-Feh in Residence

June 4 – 29, 2018

Resident Artist Antony Hamilton in Residence

June 19 to 23, 2018

Open Space: Lee Su-Feh‘s Dance Machine (June 19 to 23) and Antony Hamilton‘s new Work-in Progress showing (June 21 to 23). More information here. Ticket passes now on sale here.

July 3, 2018

Dancemakers’ Kitchen Table Conversation # 3: Details pending. More information here.

Image: Subway Shoes by Andrea Spaziani.