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“one of the treasures of Canadian dance” - Globe and Mail

Toronto Dance Theatre is one of Canada’s leading dance companies, recognized for the intelligent, provocative vision of its choreography and the exceptional artistry of its dancers. Founded in 1968 by Peter Randazzo, Patricia Beatty and David Earle, Toronto Dance Theatre has produced a remarkable body of original Canadian choreography. The company has had– and continues to have– a profound influen

ce on the development of dance in Canada. In Summer 2020, Christopher House stepped down as Artistic Director after 26 season leading the company. Award-winning curator, choreographer and performer Andrew Tay began his leadership as Artistic Director in August 2020. Toronto Dance Theatre performs annually at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre and at the company’s own Wi******er St Theatre in Cabbagetown, where it shares a home with the affiliated School of Toronto Dance Theatre, Patricia Fraser Artistic Director. The company maintains a regular presence from coast to coast in Canada, and has toured extensively in the USA, Europe and Asia.

08/05/2026

Experience Collision Project: The Toronto Chapter this SummerWorks Festival (SummerWorks) ✨

This first iteration, Hong Kong’s Unlock Dancing Plaza (Unlock Dancing Plaza 不加鎖舞踊館| 香港當代舞團) brings 4 international artists to Toronto in partnership with and CanAsian Dance for a one-day micro-festival including contemporary dance performances, cultural exchange with the community, and collaboration.

📍 SummerWorks Festival at 80 Wi******er Street
Sunday August 9, 2026
🕐 1:00 PM
• Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - performed and choreographed by Joseph Lee
• Come closer, go deeper! - interactive performative workshop by Paula Wong

🕝 2:30 PM
• Click - creation, concept and performance by Chan Wai Lok
• Stay with the Spin - performative history of pole dance by Cheung Wai Yin

Tickets starting at $20! As an artist, presenter, dance enthusiast, or simply curious about these offerings, lean into this unique opportunity to hear from distinctive artistic voices Toronto, Hong Kong and beyond 🎉

Photos (from left to right) by Yu-ting Fang, Zoe Chan,Celina Lawina, Vincent Yik. Lighting and Set Design for Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger; Come closer, go deeper by Le Dinh Dat; Costume Design for Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Trista Ma. Photos courtesy of SummerWorks Festival (2026).

07/24/2026

📣 TDT is seeking passionate, community-minded individuals to join our Board of Directors

We’re looking for leaders with experience in finance, fundraising, facilities management, strategic planning, government relations, and the dance sector, excited to support the long-term sustainability and artistic vision of one of Canada’s leading contemporary dance organizations.

Interested? Send a brief statement of interest and your CV/resume to Michael Toppings.

Not sure if board service is the right fit? We’d still love to hear from you. Reach out to [email protected] to explore ways to get involved with TDT.

Learn more about this opportunity through the link in our bio 🔗

Photos by (top) Henry Chan, Dean Oriade; (bottom) Marlowe Porter.

07/03/2026

Emine Adilak (emine adilak) is a dance artist from Tkaronto/Toronto, currently based in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal, with strong ties to their Turkish heritage. Their dance training began in traditional Turkish folk dances and later evolved to focusing primarily within contemporary dance. She is currently exploring the concepts of ripening and rotting specifically in relation to gardening, nourishment, cultural authenticity, and care. They are interested in how cultivation practices can influence their creative work and provide a framework for the duality of beauty and ruthlessness, growth and decay, tradition and lived experience.

During her residency, Emine has been further developing her solo titled Gut rot. In the studio, they are deepening their material through a decompositional lens; taking sections, breaking them apart, finding alternative pathways they can travel, flourish, (or rot). She questions the notions of control and non-control; how to embody the simultaneously agential and agentless insistence of rotting organic material. Gut rot investigates methods to encapsulate how these substances are alive again in their death and evolve to having a will of their own.

06/30/2026

📣 Applications are now open for TDT’s 2026/27 Plug-N-Play Residencies!

Designed to support independent dance, movement, and body-centred artists, Plug-N-Play offers week-long, half-day studio residencies at Wi******er Street Theatre—free of charge.

Whether you’re developing a new idea, a work in progress, or looking for dedicated studio space to collaborate and experiment, this residency provides the time and space to deepen your artistic practice and current projects.

🗓 Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET
📩 Successful applicants will be notified by August 25, 2026.

Visit the link in our bio to learn more about the program and apply.

Photo of Derek Souvannavong. Design by OD

06/29/2026

We’re so close... but apparently bold measures call for interpretive dance.

We hoped it wouldn’t have to come to this... but here we gooo 💃🏾

Help us cross the finish line before Rose goes on all day!!
Donate today and be one of the 100 supporters helping us reach our goal. Every gift gets us one step closer ❤️

06/24/2026

Movement doesn’t happen on its own 🌀
It requires artists, audiences, space and supporters.

It takes a community.

As TDT’s campaign comes to a close, help us keep all of this 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 — artistic residencies, studio access, new creations, bold performances, community programs, and productions that bring ideas to life.

Every donation, no matter the size, keeps the creativity in motion.

🏁 We’re in the final stretch. Help us cross the finish line!
Consider donating today and move us into the upcoming season

🔗 Link in bio to donate

06/23/2026

CALL TO ARTISTS ARE NOW OPEN!

TDT is inviting dance and movement artists to apply for two artistic development opportunities in the upcoming 2026/27 season.

✨ Pilot Episodes – Collaborate with TDT’s company dancers in an immersive residency designed for experimentation, artistic risk-taking, and new choreographic discoveries.

✨ Eyes On Beginnings: Fall 2026 + Spring 2027 – Share an early-stage work-in-progress, receive thoughtful audience feedback and access to studio space to support your creative process.

Whether you’re exploring a new idea, developing a concept or your artistic practice, these programs are designed to support artists at the beginning stages of something new.

📅 Applications close Friday July 24, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.
🔗 Learn more about each program
✔️ Apply using the link in our bio

06/17/2026

Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 (Sarah U 余衍晴) is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist who moves between contemporary dance, breaking, hip-hop, and emerging technologies.

Us Beneath the Currents is an interactive performance-installation that imagines how humans might adapt to a future shaped by rising waters and gradual disappearance of familiar landscapes.Using real-time body tracking, the project transforms performers’ movements into responsive digital forms inspired by marine life, ocean currents, and speculative underwater ecologies.

During her Plug N Play residency, Sarah’s focus is on developing the project’s technological and choreographic foundations, while exploring ways to decenter technology and place human experience, imagination, and adaptation at the heart of the work.

Creative Technologist: Tegvaran Sooch

06/15/2026

coexisLAB is a special project of coexisDance, a small bimonthly movement-music free improvisation performance series. coexisLAB supports groups artists to spend time in the studio (the LAB) to deepen and explore the dance-music connection possibility-space in improvisation. This LAB cohort was led by Raphael Roter (Raphael Roter) who is a percussionist/multi-instrumentalist working deeply with movement and improvisation.

For this Plug N Play residency, Raphael gathered ten extraordinary artists (6 dancers/4 musicians) to explore several ways to augment free improvisation including developing a conduction system, using visual aids and working on rhythm-based connections. The goal was to facilitate a larger degree of collective action while still being driven primarily by the artist’s expressive impulses.

coexisLAB includes dancers Nickeshia Garrick, Judy Luo, Erin Poole, Steph Harkness, Katie Adams-Gossage and Alison Viegas and musicians multi-reeds player Bea Labikova, guitarist/synth player Vennie Tu and Trombonist/multi-instrumentalist Heather Saumer and Raph on percussion/synth.

Collaborators:
Steph
Alison Viegas
Nickeshia Garrick
Judy Luo 罗佳仪
Erin Poole
katie 🍓🦋🤠
Bea Labikova
Vennie Tu
Raphael Roter
Coexisdance Toronto

coexisLAB is super duper grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting the project and to TDT for enabling it through the beatiful Plug N Play residency.

06/10/2026

ʜᴇʟᴘ ᴜꜱ ꜰɪɴɪꜱʜ ꜱᴛʀᴏɴɢ!

TDT’s 100 for 100 Fundraising Campaign is so close to reaching its goal, and every donation made before June 30 helps ensure we can continue supporting artists, creating and presenting new works and building meaningful cultural experiences for our community.

Be one of the supporters who takes us over the finish line.
✨ Donate today and help shape what’s next ✨

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+14169671365

Website

http://www.tdt.org/

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