CanAsian Dance centres the Asian Diaspora dance community, which includes artists from across Asia—including South, East, Southeast, West, and Central Asia—as well as the surrounding Pacific Islands. We are committed to supporting critical artistic conversations and the exploratory stages of new work. By fostering relationships and strengthening solidarity, we aim to create more opportunities for creative exchange, knowledge-sharing, representation, and connection within the Asian Diaspora dance community and the broader dance community.
Magic Mixing
CanAsian Dance is excited to launch the second year of Magic Mixing 💥💥💥Six Asian Diaspora artists with diverse practices will be paired and gather in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver for one-week to exchange, explore, and create collaboratively. We are super excited to be partnering withTDT, Festival Acess Asie and Odd Meridian Arts who have all contributed resources that allow Magic Mixing to happen such as space for research, creation and sharing.
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Dance Talks
Dance Talks brings together Asian diaspora dance artists for meaningful, in-depth conversations around the questions, ideas, and creative practices that shape their life and work. This conversation will be centering diasporic experiences and queer belonging through ritual and performance.
Inspired by the “fishbowl” format, each conversation is an evolving space for shared insight, reflection, and exchange.
Dance Talks: Rituals of Queer Belonging lives alongside DanceWorks: Sweet Ephemera, offering something deeper than a typical post-show talk, while also standing on its own as a dedicated space for conversation, connection, and collective care. 💫 Stay tuned for a full artist announcement.
April 19th 2-4PM
163 Sterling Rd
In this webinar we will cover
CanAsian Dance is situated in Tkaronto, a Mohawk word meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing.” It is the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and it continues to be the home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
This land is under the Dish with One Spoon covenant, an agreement between the Anishinaabeg and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. This land is a dish to be shared and cared for and we all share one spoon; the spoon is to be used to take only what is needed and to leave enough for others, thus ensuring a viable and abundant future. We recognize the enduring resilience of Indigenous peoples and we acknowledge that we are accountable to these relationships and these agreements.
We carry these values of responsibility in sharing and caring in abundance with consideration of not only ourselves but of our communities that we share together.
