The Canadian Dance Festival is a bi-annual Ottawa, Ontario event founded in 1994. Held in June, it sets the stage "for Canada's most contemporary, innovative and leading edge dancechoreographers and dance companies." This article is about the capital city of Canada. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated like the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Performance dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where performance is the primary focus of the dancing. ... Choreography (also known as dance composition) is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ...
The festival includes events at the National Arts Centre, but has also featured performances at other locations such as city parks and the National Gallery of Canada. The National Arts Centre building in front of the Parliament with Confederation Park in the foreground The National Arts Centre of Canada (NAC) (in French: Le Centre national des arts (CNA)) is a federal government centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that is a venue for music, theatre, dance and other... National Gallery of Canada on Canada Day. ...
It is co-produced by the CanadaDanceFestival Society and the National Arts Centre in association with the National Gallery of Canada.
Dance in Canada has evolved to be truly an indigenous expression of time and circumstances -- economic, regional, cultural; influenced by literature, theatre, architecture and design.
Dance performance is a last live human field of communication, yet it strikes me that dance is oddly "electronic" in the way it disperses into the very air.
The CanadaDanceFestival is co-produced by the CanadaDanceFestival Society and the National Arts Centre.
Le festival permet aux artistes professionnels canadiens de donner la pleine mesure de leur talent et de démontrer la qualité et l'originalité de leurs œuvres.
Le festival diffuse de nouvelles créations qui représente la diversité de la danse canadienne et qui est créé par des chorégraphes canadiens reconnus ou émergents.