Canada Dance Festival (CDF)
Canada Dance Festival | Festival Danse Canada
Festival | Festival
Ottawa ON
July 2-16 juillet 2017
Various dates and times
Contemporary
Moving Others
The relationship between audience engagement and attendance By Emma DoranMost dance artists and presenters must negotiate the tension between creating work that meets their artistic goals, that is accessible to their community and that provides the fiscal support required to live as an artist and to run a company. Emma Doran speaks with artists, organizations and presenters across the country to discuss how they envision their audience, how they are seeking to reach those individuals and what constitutes meaningful engagement with them.
Posted March 31, 2017
Cross-Canada Checkup
Canada Dance Festival takes the pulse of dance in Canada By Kathleen SmithNow gearing up for its twentieth edition, CDF offers an important accounting of the state of the art of dance across the country. With regular “off-year” events and a full-on festival every other year, the festival is dedicated to growing audiences in the Ottawa region and providing a meeting site for dance artists across regional, generational, cultural and disciplinary lines.
Posted May 30, 2016
Paradoxe Mélodie
This May, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal has invited Danièle Desnoyers to create a choreographic work for its program, pairing six dancers from her company, with the music of the new organ played by OSM’s organist-in-residence Jean-Willy Kunz.
Posted May 5, 2016– Community Placeholder –
Festival | Festival
Ottawa ON
June 4-11 juin 2016
All
Canada Dance Festival 2015
Challenging the Idea of Dance By Mercedes Déziel-Hupé Canada Dance Festival/Festival Danse CanadaThe yearly festival serves as a community leader in Canadian dance in order to foster the art form’s growth and its reach, featuring artists from across the country.
Posted June 23, 2015
Canada Dance Festival Roundup
By Lys StevensIn June, as festival season takes flight across Canada, the Canada Dance Festival (CDF) kicks off in Ottawa. I took on the CDF by bike, for the ease of speed when moving from one venue to another.
Posted July 1, 2014
Tilting – Resettlement
Dancer/choreographer Caroline Niklas-Gordon’s solo Tilting – Resettlement explores Newfoundland’s Resettlement Program that took place between the 1950s and 1970s.
Posted June 17, 2014
Bathtub Bran goes to Canada Dance Festival 2014
In the fourth episode of Bathtub Bran goes to Canada Dance Festival series, Bran Ramsey sits with Ottawa-based choreographer Tedd Robinson to discuss The 60 Dancer Project. Ramsey interviews a different CDF artist or choreographer every day of the festival.
Posted June 13, 2014
OutSideIn
Screening | Visionnement
Ottawa ON
July 15-16 juillet 2017
July 15 @ 4:00 | 16:00 & July 16 @ 4:30 | 16:30
Contemporary, Dancefilm
By Invitation Only: Dance, Confederation and Reconciliation
Exhibit | Exposition
Ottawa ON
June 19-23 juillet 2017
Indigenous
IN MUSEUM
Performance | Spectacle
Ottawa ON
July 15 juillet 2017
2:00 | 14:00
Contemporary
Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Performance | Spectacle
Ottawa ON
July 14 juillet 2017
8:00 | 20:00
Contemporary
Animal Triste
Performance | Spectacle
Ottawa ON
June 6 juin 2016
8:30 | 20:30
Contemporary
JP Longboat and Byron Chief-Moon
Festival | Festival
Ottawa ON
June 5 juin 2016
7:00 | 19:00
Contemporary, Indigenous
Young Professionals
Festival | Festival
Ottawa ON
June 5-6 juin 2016
5:30 | 17:30
Contemporary
Usually Beauty Fails
Festival | Festival
Ottawa ON
June 4 juin 2016
7:30 | 19:30
Contemporary
ODD is OFF
Festival | Festival
Ottawa ON
June 4-6 juin 2016
4 @ 5:30 | 17:30, 5 @ 4:00 | 16:00, 6 @ 7:00 | 19:00
Contemporary
Porch View Dances
Festival | Festival
Ottawa ON
June 4-5 juin 2016
4:00 | 16:00
Interdisciplinary, Community Dance
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