DANCE

ASSOCIATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS

• Acting and Modelling Information Service (AMIS)

  AMIS provides information about how the talent, casting and modeling agency business works and has the support of most professional associations within the entertainment industry.

• Al and Malka Green Artists’ Health Centre (AHC)

  Located at the Toronto Western Hospital, the AHC offers both complementary/alternative and conventional health care to professional creative and performing artists, and to students and staff at post-secondary arts institutions. The mandate includes research, education and outreach to the arts community.

• Artists Legal Advice Service

  ALAS provides free legal advice to Ontario artists working in all disciplines. Artists can schedule an appointment to see a lawyer for one-half hour by calling 416.367.2527.

• Association for Native Development in the Performing & Visual Arts (ANDPVA)

  ANDPVA is the country’s leading Aboriginal arts service organization, representing over 300 of the country’s active artists. The member-driven, not-for-profit organization strives to serve Aboriginal arts through ongoing advocacy, special initiatives and resourceful programming.

• Canada Council for the Arts

  Canada Council for the Arts is the national arts funding agency. This site provides information about the council’s grants to dancers to support for research, professional development, production, networking and career development activities. The council also administers a number of important awards and prizes.

• Canadian Actors Equity Association (CAEA)

  CAEA is the professional association of performers in English Canada who are engaged in live performance in theatre, opera and dance.

• Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists (CADA)

  CADA is a professional association and service organization founded in 1986 by and for dance artists. The Alliance is membership-based and guided by the principle that professional dance needs a dedicated and unified voice. Among others services, it provides training subsidies for members.

• Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA)

  The Canada Council for the Arts is a non-partisan, non-profit cultural advocacy organization which provides a national forum for debate on cultural policy. Canada Council for the Arts is a leading national advocate for Canada's artists and cultural institutions and industries.

• Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA)

  CDA is a national arts service organization dedicated to serving the professional dance community in Canada. It exists to facilitate the dynamic exchange of information relevant to Canadian professional dance of all forms and aesthetics and strives to support the development of resources for this field of artistic expression.

• Canadian Dance Teachers Association (CDTA) - Ontario Branch

  CDTA is a nationally recognized body whose aims are to establish and maintain, throughout Canada, a formal non-profit organization of qualified dance teachers in all disciplines of dance.

• Canadian Institute of Theatre Technology (CITT)

  This is a national arts service organization with the mission of actively promoting the professional development of its members and working for the betterment of the Canadian live performance community. This site contains information about health and safety issues across Canada and the guide Theatre Safety Basics.

• Canadian Network of Dance Presenters

  The CanDance Network is an association of specialized dance presenting organizations across Canada that serves dance presenters' needs, and supports their work with the dance community and its marketplace. Members of the CanDance Network present seasons and/or festivals of new works in dance and related performance.

• Centre for the Arts in Toronto

  The Centre for the Arts is a not-for-profit community arts centre that addresses the need for artists to have a place where their voices can be heard and their works produced. The Centre promotes and presents work in theatre, film and video, music, dance and the visual arts, and provides training and other services to the community.

• Coalition for Cultural Diversity (CCD)

  The CCD, an organization of Canadian cultural professional associations, has a mandate to assert that cultural diversity is a fundamental human right and that countries and governments be entirely free to adopt the policies necessary to support the diversity of cultural expression and the viability of enterprises that produce and disseminate this expression.

• Council for the Arts in Ottawa

• Council of Ontario Drama and Dance Educators (CODE)

  CODE is a registered charitable agency affiliated with many drama organizations.

• Cultural Careers Council Ontario (CCCO)

  CCCO addresses human resources and career development needs and issues for Ontario's arts and culture community. CCCO develops, facilitates and promotes human resources and career development programs, publications, services and partnerships.

• Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC)

  CHRC is a sector council bringing together representatives of arts disciplines and cultural industries to address the training and career development needs of cultural workers - artists, creators, technical staff, managers and all others engaged professionally in the sector, including the self-employed. The site provides information and publications of interest to professional artists. On the CultureWorks part of its site, CHRC has information about jobs and provides advice about how artists can prepare resumes and other marketing material.

• Dance Collection Danse (DCD)

  Archival resource materials concerning Canada’s theatrical dance history, including works of Canadian choreographers.

• Dance Current

  Canadian dance magazine with online information.

• Dance Ontario

  Founded 1976, Dance Ontario is a not-for-profit membership-based association that brings together a dynamic cross-section of all areas of the dance sector from internationally renowned companies to local dance clubs, technicians and agents. This site has information about auditions, classes, rental spaces, shows, as well as a directory.

• Dance Umbrella of Ontario (DUO)

  Founded in 1988, DUO is a not-for-profit, non-membership-based organization. It provides quality management and administrative support to professional dance artists in Ontario and actively works to facilitate their success. DUO fosters a healthy dance community by promoting communication and interaction between and among dance artists, dance organizations, dance presenters, funders and the public.

• Dancer Transition Resource Centre (DTRC)

  DTRC is a membership organization which also provides services to the broader dance and arts communities.

• Guelph Arts Council

• Hamilton and Region Arts Council

• International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD)

  INCD is a world wide network of artists and cultural groups dedicated to countering the adverse effects of globalization on world cultures.

• Kingston Arts Council

• London Arts Council

• Mississauga Arts Council

• Ontario Arts Council (OAC)

  OAC is the province’s primary funding body for professional arts activity. This site has information about project grants that may be available to individual artists. The OAC also administers a number of important awards and prizes.

• Quinte Arts Council

• Scarborough Arts Council

• Theatre Ontario

  Theatre Ontario is an association of community, educational and professional theatre organizations and individuals who are dedicated to the development and maintenance of high quality theatre in all parts of the province that is accessible to and reflects all segments of our society.

• Theatre Canada
  www.theatrecanada.com

• Thunder Bay Regional Arts Centre

• Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA)

  TAPA is a professional arts service organization dedicated to advancing the arts in the City of Toronto by promoting and advocating on behalf of local theatre, dance and opera companies and providing services to enhance the artistic, technical and administrative development of its membership.

• Toronto Arts Council

• Waterloo Regional Arts Council 

• Windsor and Region Arts Council

• Folk Dancing Associations

  Ontario is home to a vast array of communities from different cultures and countries, in many of which dance is an important cultural medium. Traditional and ethnic dancing is often done for recreational purposes. Information about some of these forms can be found at the following sites:

• Ontario Folk Dance Association

  A non-profit organization of recreational dancers interested in the traditional music and dances of the world’s different cultures.

• Folk Dance Association (United States)

  This U.S.-based organization has information about folk dancing in Ontario.

• Ontario Middle Eastern Dance Association

• Western Ontario Highland Dancers’ Association

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