Designed by dance people for dance people, the Canadian Integrated Dance Database (CIDD) helps companies and artists archive their materials.
Many dance organizations and artists are faced with the ongoing problem of organizing their collections of papers, photographs, videotapes and artifacts. The CIDD provides a method of cataloguing the varied items found in a dance collection.
With the ability to upload records to a national database on the DCD web site, a catalogue of dance research materials can be accessed worldwide increasing the global profile of dance in Canada.
Canadian Integrated Dance Database Standards Manual and Collier Descriptor Thesaurus
If you want a quick run-down of what it is we do, please feel free to download our brochure. 2016 marks DCD's 30th year at the vanguard of Canada's dance story. Perfect reading for your next off-line moment. (READ MORE)
Please join us in creating an even better organization as we enter a brave new phase of of development. Donors have been fostering the legacy of Canadian dance for over 30 years through DCD. (READ MORE)
THE DCD TEAM
Get to know the dynamic individuals who are dedicated to caring for Canada's rich dance heritage and sharing its dance story with the world. From collections to programming and education to marketing and admin, our productive team packs a lot into a year. (READ MORE)
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.