Maud Allan
AN EDWARDIAN SENSATION Maud Allan’s story reads like a modern-day tabloid … filled with libel suits, murder and tempestuous love affairs. At the height of […]
Category: Series
Rocking the boat
CELEBRATING QUEER CONTENT IN CANADIAN CONCERT DANCE Performance art, cabaret and burlesque are accepted arenas for expression of queer themes through movement; but what about the […]
Community exhibits
Now that we’re on Carlton St., DCD prepares exhibits for other locations and loans artifacts to various institutions. In recent years, we have installed exhibits […]
Dance historian of the month
Curated by Seika Boye and Carolyne Clare Dance Historian of the Month is a series of interviews with Canadian dance writers/historians that illuminates the behind-the-scenes work of […]
Choreographic dialogues
The Choreographic Dialogues series ran during 2008/09. Funded by York University’s Seminar for Advanced Research and by the York University Department of Dance, the series took place […]
Enter dancing
Narratives of migration Enter, Dancing: Narratives of Migration, a project initiated and co-ordinated by Carol Anderson, records the stories of nine individuals who have come […]
Artefact of the month
The Artefact of the Month series introduces our online visitors to treasured and fascinating items at Dance Collection Danse. Focussed on Canada’s dance history, DCD’s collection dates […]
Touring through time
Born out of our Dancing Through Time exhibition in 2011, a part of which included an online walking tour of important landmarks in Toronto’s dance past, Touring Through […]
Pages in history
This component of the DCD web site offers images, brief biographies and content descriptions for dance artist’s portfolios within the Dance Collection Danse archives. MAUD […]
Encore! Encore! Web exhibitions
This component of the DCD web site offers an in-depth view of some of Canada’s most important dance artists. Each exhibition contains a large assortment […]