Are you looking to engage with the Toronto dance community this summer? Join our Festival team as a Dance Steward!

The dance: made in/fait au canada Festival is looking for emerging artists who are interested in advocating and networking with our national dance community. Our 2025 Edition will run from August 14 – 17th & August 20th – 24th, 2025 featuring artists from Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, & Halifax. Get the chance to see the latest in Canada’s contemporary dance.

DANCE STEWARDS ARE:

• Interested in engaging with the dance community from across Canada.
• Willing and able to be representatives of the dance: made in Canada Festival, specifically engaging with our audiences during the week of the Festival.
• Interested in meeting our Festival artists and team, and being exposed to the inner workings of a national-wide Festival.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU:

• Workshops led by working artists
• Networking & Orientation
• Connection into the professional world
• Building relationships with professional dance artists
• A look into the professional creative process
• An opportunity to engage with peers, graduates from other dance programs, and emerging in the community.
• Access to d:mic/fac Festival programming
• An opportunity to create and perform a new choreographic work

In 2025, we are commissioning the Dance Stewards to collectively co-create and perform a 4 to 5-minute choreographic work for our WYSIWYG programme. The theme for this work is celebrating your generation and featuring your strengths and creativity as a dance collective. The work will run as part of the festival from August 20 to 24, 2025 (Sunday inclusive).

Dance Stewards selected for the program will receive an honorarium of $1,300/-

EXPECTATIONS:

You must be available in Toronto between May – August for the orientation sessions and the creation/rehearsals of the commissioned work.

This opportunity is open to Toronto-based individuals who meet the following criteria:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• 18 years of age or older
• You must also be available in Toronto during the full week of the Festival (August 14th – 17th & August 20th – 24th, 2025 ).
• You should be available for at least fourteen (14) hours during the week of the Festival – this includes shadowing tech rehearsals, connecting with Festival artists for one-on-one chats, attending our Festival programming, attending Festival workshops free of charge, and
• Being a representative in the lobby of the Festival venue. This will be in addition to the tech and performances of your commissioned work.

Following the d:mic Festival, there will be a post-mortem session, that can either be attended in person or online.

One (1) orientation session: 2 hours
Two (2) professional development sessions: 3.5 hours (each) = 7 hours
Creation and Rehearsals for commissioned work: 20 hours
Tech Rehearsal for commissioned work: 1 hour
Two performances of commissioned work: 1 hour (each)
Festival Week: 14 hours
Post-mortem session: 2 hours
TOTAL: 48 hours

HOW TO APPLY: see form

Please answer all questions and provide a letter of interest, stating why you would be right for this role. (100-300 words) Submission Deadline: Thursday, March 27, 2025, by 5:00 pm EST.