Contemporary

TORONTO SALSA BALL – One Night.  Dance in the New Year Right!
Celebrate the Eve of the New Year 2012  with an evening of mystery, elegance, and dancing! Highlights of the evening will include:

4 DJs and 3 rooms to dance the best of the best of Salsa, Bachata, Zouk, Top 40s, and more!
Complimentary [...]

Luminato will present the North American premiere of a new work by the Batsheva Dance Company, popularly embraced as one of the most exciting contemporary dance companies in the world, in their much-anticipated return to Canada after a long absence from Toronto.
Presented in collaboration with the Israel Festival, Jerusalem, the Batsheva Dance Company will perform [...]

After nine thrilling weeks of competition, Canada has watched her rise to the top mastering every dance style thrown her way, and after tonight’s dance-packed SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA fourth season finale, we congratulate JORDAN CLARK on becoming Canada’s Favourite Dancer.
After 1.6 million votes were cast on Monday night, host Leah Miller announced live [...]

Dusk Dances, one of Torontoʼs most vibrant and popular cultural events, returns for its 17th season, with 3 weeks of exciting dance performances at Neilson Park, Withrow Park, and Earlscourt Park.
In August, Dusk Dances returns to Withrow Park for the annual downtown event, featuring innovative new works from Karen Kaeja, Throwdown Collective (Zhenya Cerneacov, Mairéad Filgate, [...]

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The students at the University of Toronto pursuing careers in various academic disciplines are remarkably talented.  Their need to balance their workload of essays and formulas with physical expression has evolved over the last 12 years into Canada’s largest University dance festival, the UofT Festival of Dance (FoD).
Over 200 dancers now perform each year during the [...]

If you are a dance company or choreographer, you may like to take part in the annual “Talent Defined” showcase of upcoming and professional dance companies and choreographers organized by City Dance Corps.

Part of  Harbourfront Centre’s NextSteps Series, Dance Ontario’s three-day dance event takes place this weekend January 22-24.  Twenty seven professional companies and hundreds of dancers will be performing. Admission is by donation (minimum $10 per person).
Harbourfront Dance Weekend 2010 Schedule
Fridayt January 22

7:00 pm Ballet Creole
7:40 pm On The Move participants choreographed by Ines Markeljevic
8:00 [...]

Are you a dancer looking to showcase your talent to the public?
The City of Toronto has begun a new program that will regularly feature dancers (contemporary, street dance, breakdancers, etc) performing in the TTC like  musicians now do. The city provides dancers with an honorarium and dancers can ask the public for donations too.  Read [...]

After todays elimination of Jenna Lynn Higgins, Contemporary dancer Melanie Mah from Richmond Hill is the last remaining female dancer from the GTA on CTV’s second season of the hit show “So You Think You Can Dance Canada.”
In the first week of top-20 performances, hip hop dancer Tatiana Parker was eliminated,  and last week ballroom [...]