FALL FOR DANCE NORTH INTERNATIONAL PRESENTERS PROGRAM
October 2-6, 2024 | Toronto, ON
The Dance Centre is pleased to collaborate with Fall for Dance North’s International Presenters Program (IPP), and our BC partners New Works, to produce a showcase of BC dance for the attending dancemakers, performing arts programmers, curators, agents/managers, and global cultural leaders to connect with BC-based dance artists.
SHOWCASE: BC DANCE
October 4, 2024 3.30-6.30pm EST
Toronto Dance Theatre: 80 Winchester Street
Featuring BC-based dance artists and companies:
Ralph Escamillan/FakeKnot
Danny Nielsen
All Bodies Dance Project/Naomi Brand
Jeanette Kotowich
Daina Ashbee
Ballet Kelowna
OURO Collective
Ziyian Kwan/Odd Meridian Arts
Produced by The Dance Centre and New Works, with financial support from the BC Arts Council.
PITCH:
RALPH ESCAMILLAN/FAKEKNOT
Artist website
EXCERPT:
DANNY NIELSEN
In Conversation
Artist website
PITCH:
ALL BODIES DANCE PROJECT/NAOMI BRAND
Translations
Artist website
EXCERPT:
JEANETTE KOTOWICH
Kisiskâciwan
Artist website
EXCERPT:
DAINA ASHBEE
Laborious Song
Artist website
PITCH:
BALLET KELOWNA
Artist website
EXCERPT:
OURO COLLECTIVE
7y98D
Artist website
EXCERPT:
ZIYIAN KWAN/ODD MERIDIAN ARTS
Tendrils
Artist website
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About The Dance Centre
Established in 1986 as a resource centre for dance in British Columbia, The Dance Centre offers a range of activities which is unparalleled in Canadian dance. It presents performances and events, building audiences and nurturing public awareness; invests in programs, resources and support for hundreds of dance professionals working in all genres; operates Scotiabank Dance Centre, a cultural hub and one of Canada’s flagship dance facilities which welcomes tens of thousands of visitors annually; and works to promote BC dance.
About New Works
New Works is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization that is dedicated to developing and supporting dance communities through accessible art engagement, and strives to respond to the needs of a diversity of dance practitioners, audiences, and arts workers through a contemporary cultural lens. Its programs and performances are guided by the commitment to supporting dance artists, cultivating audiences, and providing and promoting diverse and accessible performance experiences.
The Dance Centre and New Works respectfully acknowledge that we are situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy’əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl’ílwəta?/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.