DANCE

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING

• 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.

• Dance Ontario

  Information about dance classes available for independent professional dancers.

• Dancer Transition Resource Centre (DTRC)

  The DTRC was founded in 1985 with a mandate to help dancers make necessary transitions into, within, and from professional performing careers. DTRC provides counselling services, skills grants and retraining grants for members. DTRC has some resources, and organizes workshops and programs, available to all dancers and professional dance students.

• Earth in Motion World Indigenous Dance

  The mandate of Earth in Motion is to develop a creative forum for innovative and compelling Aboriginal contemporary dance.

• National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program

  The National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program is a three-year training program for students from a cross-section of Canadian Indigenous cultures. The focus is on storytelling, defined broadly. While the core of the program revolves around performing arts practice, related interests may include new media, film/video, music, dance, spectacle, writing, photography, visual arts/design, and others.

• Ontario Colleges and Universities

  Many Ontario colleges and universities provide education and training in all aspects of theatre and the performing arts, including scriptwriting, directing, acting, stage management, design, etc.

• Professional Training

  There are many schools throughout Ontario that provide dance training in every form and style, from small studios in local communities to world leading facilities in Toronto. The most comprehensive and searchable list of schools is found at Dance Ontario. Some of the leading schools which have websites are:

  1. George Brown College
  2. National Ballet School
  3. Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts
  4. Ryerson University
  5. School of the Toronto Dance Theatre
  6. The School of Dance
  7. York University

• Diverse Communities

  There are some schools which provide professional training to dancers from diverse communities. Some of these which have websites are:

  1. Ballet Creole
  2. School of COBA – Collective of Black Artists
  3. Korean Dance Studies Society of Canada Inc.
  4. Nrtyakala – Canadian Academy of Indian Dance
  5. Sampradaya Dance Academy

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