Dancemakers is a publicly-funded, professional dance company based in Toronto Canada that shares a range of dance traditions with the public. They are calling on Dance Curators to apply for an opportunity to select, support and contextualize the Dancemakers programming for public sharing. Dance Curators are encouraged to ‘dream projects into being’ that may not be programmed in traditional performance venues, companies or festivals.
Priorities include: Site-specific projects in specific locations/settings, projects that engage with and integrate communities/audiences and projects that deeply consider the curatorial context of the work and projects that engage with a range of dance forms and traditions.
Dance Curators play a vital role in responding to larger contextual realities and urgent needs related to dance and presenting dance in Canada. We are explicitly looking to support various dance forms, performances that engage with land, social issues and that centre BIPOC voices.
Dancemakers are interested in curatorial projects that are clearly able to answer ‘why this now’?
Each Curator will be expected to engage with audiences through a full production or a work-in-progress showing along with discussions, workshops, participatory events, community-building and/or other porous approaches that includes community interaction.
This call will close on August 15 2025.
