A festival designed to bring the best in Canadian contemporary dance to Guelph will be taking place online this year with a series of virtual streams.
Guelph Dance was founded in 1998 as a way to educate people interested in dance and provide opportunities for dancers of all kinds. This year’s festival will feature livestreams of new dance works, recordings of past festivals and virtual workshops and panels. The event’s opening night will feature a short documentary and performance by The Welcome Project: Sharing Stories Guelph, which has brought together artists from the Toronto and Guelph regions into a joint creative process.
Other livestreamed dance performances will include works by The Kween Company, Drew Berry, Laboration Art Company and Portal Dance Projects. There will also be a number of opportunities to interact with dance and art experts, with virtual workshops on subjects like African dance and experiential awareness, late-night virtual “parties” and a dance intensive leading up to the event.
Festivals like this, often advertised through tools like poster printing and social media posts, help to form a community between lovers of art Forms like dance.
The Guelph Dance Festival will take place from June 2nd to the 6th, with some performances available to watch online until the 13th. The Emerging Artist Intensive workshops will run from May 31 to June 4.Get a Free Quote for Forms
