EXCITING NEW COLLABORATION
DCD is excited to collaborate with Nova Dance on a new publication
To accompany choreographer Nova Bhattacharya’s epic, groundbreaking work Svāhā... (MORE)
We are in the process of creating an online collection to share our materials and connect other collections. Sign up HERE!
DCD - DEDICATED TO CANADIAN DANCE
A CELEBRATION OF WHAT WE'VE DONE, DO, AND PLAN FOR THE FUTURE
EDITED BY VICKIE FAGAN
Dance Collection Danse is a unique organization straddling the performing arts, museum and archival communities. At its core, DCD exists to preserve Canada's dance heritage and share it internationally through programming such as virtual and live exhibits, screenings, lectures, workshops, education, dance animation, catalogues, annual magazine, books, and by supporting research.
Canada’s dance history is filled with remarkable people who took risks and pushed the development of the art form. Dance history reflects moments in our political history, immigration history, military history, social history, feminist history and gay rights. It is an ephemeral art form and requires special care to ensure that the art and the artists are not lost to time.
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Brochures about DCD are available HERE..
DCD HALL OF FAME
We are delighted to announce the 2021 DCD Hall of Fame event has been confirmed for Sunday, September 19, 2021, 2pm - 6pm at theToronto Botanical Gardens
We will honour the original 2020 Inductees. Hosted by singer/songwriter Micah Barnes, the event will feature live performances. (MORE)
SHOP DCD FACELIFT!
Just in time time for the release of our latest book, Amy Bowring's Navigating Home: Artists of the NL Dance Project, we have redesigned out store to be more secure and work seamlessly on mobile devices. Drop by and see how it looks... maybe even buy something? MORE
PAGE IN HISTORY
Kathak dancer, creator and educator, Rina Singha was born in Kolkata India in 1937. She trained with Kathak master Sambu Maharaj (1910-1970) at Delhi’s Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendra. In 1960 Rina moved to London and toured Europe both as a soloist and with the... (MORE)
CONTACT
1303 - 2 Carlton St.
Toronto, ON
M5B 1J3
Canada
Phone: 416-365-3233
Fax: 416-365-3169
info@dcd.ca
Research Centre
Mon. - Fri. 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Appointment Required
Contact Amy Bowring by email or call one of the numbers above
PERSONNEL
Miriam Adams, C.M.
Co-founder/Advisor
Amy Bowring
Executive and Curatorial Director
Jay Rankin
Administrative Director
Vickie Fagan
Director of Development and Producer/Hall of Fame
Michael Ripley
Marketing & Sales Coordinator
Beth Dobson
Archiving and Programming Assistant
SEARCH
SOCIAL MEDIA
Dance Collection Danse would like to acknowledge that the land on which we work is the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, the Anishnaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Métis, and the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation. It has been a site of human activity, including dance, for at least 15,000 years and we are grateful to all the caretakers, both recorded and unrecorded, of this land and of Turtle Island. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and dance in the community, on this territory.
