Canada Dance Festival (CDF)

Volume 20, Issue 4
July/August 2017

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 Doran

Most 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 Smith

Now 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

Canada Dance Festival (CDF)

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Festival | Festival

Ottawa ON
June 4-11 juin 2016
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Canada Dance Festival 2015

Challenging the Idea of Dance By Mercedes Déziel-Hupé Canada Dance Festival/Festival Danse Canada

The 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 Stevens

In 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

BTB goes to CANADA DANCE FESTIVAL 4: Tedd Robinson

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

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