2025/26 Season

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DanceWorks’ 2025/26 Signature Series will feature highly acclaimed performances from celebrated artists including three Toronto premieres and three world premieres. Our Signature Series features diverse double-bills, collaborative curatorial projects, and partnerships that invite the public to encounter distinct expressions of performance as we continue centering racialized, queer, and emerging choreographic voices in Canada. Platforming explorations of global indigeneity, intergenerational world building, and collective learning, we are excited to offer programming that bolsters cross-cultural knowledge exchange with a more action-based focus on accessibility and collaboration. 

In alignment with our evolving curatorial vision and in response to the needs of the national cultural sector, the term ‘convergence’ has revealed a timely and vital orientation for the 2025/26 Season. The root word, converge, means “to come together and unite in a common interest or focus.” As we move through this next chapter, may we look to this term as a grounding reminder of the ever-present need to be attentive and present with the evolving socio-political landscape locally and beyond; continuing our investment in movement and cultural literacy amongst local and national audiences. 

DanceWorks’ 2025/26 Signature Series was curated by Dedra McDermott and is made possible with collaborative co-presentation partners dance Immersion, SummerWorks, Dancemakers, and Toronto Dance Theatre.