The Fifth

The Fifth Toronto-based dance studio.Diff levels of ballet & contemporary classes for professionals and adults!

10/08/2026

It’s official!

Casa de Danza’s 2026 Día de Mu***os Dance Festival is coming up and we can’t wait to see you there.

🧡🌺🫀

Join us for a one-of-a-kind dance festival that celebrates Mexico’s Day of the Dead, performed in unique spaces that bring the experience to life in unexpected ways.

Featured choreographers/performers
○ Irma Villafuerte Irma Villafuerte (She/Ella/ Yaja) I R M Y (yaja/ella/her)
○ Sofi Gudiño Sofi Gudiño
○ Heryka Miranda Heryka Miranda Pellecer

Event Schedule:
6:00pm: Doors Open
6:00 - 7:00pm: Marigold Flower Craft and Ofrenda Reflection
7:00 - 8:30pm: Immersive Performances featuring Casa De Danza’s Resident Artists
8:30 - 10:00pm: Dance Party & Reception with live DJ.

📍Daniels Spectrum & Aki Studio - 585 Dundas St E
📅Saturday October 31st & Sunday November 1st
⏰6PM-10PM
🎟️$10 Tickets

Funded by the Toronto Arts Council, Canadian Council for the Arts.

October Workshops & Events 🎃Halloween Week➝👻💀Come take class in your favourite costume, we’ll take your picture & whoev...
10/01/2026

October Workshops & Events 🎃

Halloween Week➝👻💀
Come take class in your favourite costume, we’ll take your picture & whoever gets the most likes/comments/shares wins TWO FREE CLASSES (one for you and one for a friend)!
📅 The contest is open in all classes from October 25th-31st.

October Emerging Practice➝ 🩰🌀
Contemporary Ballet Workshop With Alyssa Scocco
What makes movement feel like it means something?
Contemporary Ballet Workshop explores ballet technique as a tool for expression, investigating how dynamics, musicality, and contrast can transform movement from technically correct into emotionally specific.
📅 October 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2026

Prix du Canada Variation Class Series I ➝✨💖
Hosted by Prix du Canada in collaboration with The Fifth, this 4-week workshop invites dancers to explore the Odalisque 2nd Variation from Le Corsaire, led by Riho.
📅Fridays, October 2nd, 16th, 23rd & 30th

GrantLab with Eilers Dance Theatre ➝ 🖊️📚
GrantLab is an online professional development program for artists who want to fund their work and sustain a creative career without separating administration from artistic practice.
📅 Deadline to apply is Oct 6th

Dia de Mu***os with Casa de Danza➝ 🫀🧡
Dia de Mu***os is a one-of-a-kind dance festival that celebrates Mexico’s Day of the Dead, performed in unique spaces that bring the experience to life in unexpected ways.
Join us for this year’s festival at Daniels Spectrum to witness the work of choreographers Irma Villafuerte, Sofi Gudiño, and Heryka Miranda.
📅 Oct 31, Nov 1

Learn more about our October Workshops & Events on our website!

09/30/2026

What if your grant isn’t the problem?

I’ve sat on grant juries and read application after application for projects that were beautiful, necessary, thoughtful and absolutely fundable. And there still wasn’t enough money.

That changes the question for me.

Yes, I want artists to become excellent grant writers.

I want us to understand the systems we are navigating, articulate our work powerfully, build strong budgets, ask for what we actually need, and stop making ourselves smaller in applications.

But I also want us to ask bigger questions.

What would an arts ecology look like where excellent work could actually be resourced?

What happens when artists see ourselves not only as applicants, but as jurors, advocates, employers, organizers, board members, entrepreneurs and cultural leaders?

What relationships can we build?

What conversations can we enter?

What structures can we influence?

What resources exist beyond the grant portal?

And what might we build that doesn’t exist yet?

Scarcity may describe the current funding envelope. It does not have to describe our imagination.

That is the thinking behind GrantLab: Resourcing Artistic Capacity.

Yes, we are going to get very good at grants.

And then we’re going further.

Part 1: Fall 2026
Building the Application: Vision, Structure & Submission

Part 2: Winter 2027
Building the Career: Sustainability, Relationships & Growth

Applications due October 6.
Come build what’s next with us.

🩰 PDC VARIATION SERIES ARE BACK 🩰with Riho Ogata Riho Ogata Hosted by Prix du Canada in collaboration with The Fifth, t...
09/25/2026

🩰 PDC VARIATION SERIES ARE BACK 🩰
with Riho Ogata Riho Ogata

Hosted by Prix du Canada in collaboration with The Fifth, this 4-week workshop invites dancers to explore the Odalisque 2nd Variation from Le Corsaire, led by Riho.
Over the series, you’ll work on emboîté en tournant, intricate footwork, and balance control, all while building musicality, coordination, and stage presence.

✨ What you’ll explore:
Week 1 — Choreography, style & details
Week 2 — Technique: footwork, coordination, balance & control
Week 3 — Musicality, artistry & performance quality
Week 4 — Full run-throughs, refinement & performance coaching

📌 Please note: this workshop does NOT include barre or warm-up — we recommend taking a drop-in class beforehand.
Recommended level: Minimum 1+ year of ballet experience, comfortable with basic centre work.

When: Fridays, October 2nd, 16th, 23rd & 30th, 2026 (No class October 9th for Thanksgiving weekend)
Where: Main Studio at 366 Adelaide | Unit 120
Time: 7:30 pm-8:30 pm
Price: $88 + HST

🔗 Head to our website to register

09/25/2026

Our second Emerging Practice Cohort facilitator Alyssa Scocco Alyssa Scocco brings you Contemporary Ballet Workshop!

Fridays October 9, 16, 23 & 30
Sliding scale $10-$30 +HST
Designed for intermediate to advanced level

🩰Contemporary Ballet Workshop explores weight, timing, resistance, suspension, attack, texture, musical syncopation, and expansive port de bras.

🧑‍🩰Particular attention will be given to contrast: how shifting between qualities can create tension, anticipation, surprise, and emotional clarity within a phrase.

🎭Rather than relying on “acting” or facial expression alone to communicate feeling, we’ll explore how emotion and narrative can live directly inside the dynamics of movement.

Come curious, open to experimentation, and ready for a challenge are strongly encouraged to join Alyssa’s practice Contemporary Ballet Workshop!

✨Plus — Clara’s last two classes are coming up TOMORROW September 25 & October 2. Don’t miss your chance to join her for Finding Your Movement Language!

09/23/2026

The Fifth Dance fam shows up everyday to give every dancer the same care and dedication, no matter how much experience you have or what level you’re at.

We’re proud to offer drop-in classes, workshops, multi-week series, pop-up classes and private sessions across styles and levels — plus support for professional dance artists through programs, discounted classes, and rehearsal space.

Learn more about your upcoming events, classes and more by visiting our website: thefifthdance.com

See you in the studio soon!🤸🩰🕺🧑‍🩰

Address

366 Adelaide Street East
Toronto, ON
M5A3X9

Opening Hours

Monday 10:30am - 2:30pm
6pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday 10:30am - 2:30pm
6pm - 8:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 2pm
6pm - 8:30pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
6pm - 8:30pm
Friday 10:30am - 2:30pm
Saturday 9:30am - 2:30pm
Sunday 10am - 2:30pm

Telephone

+16477465355

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