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Aug 14 – 17, 2025
The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance

Aug 21 – 24, 2025
Betty Oliphant Theatre

Aug 14 – 17, 2025
The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance

Aug 21 – 24, 2025
Betty Oliphant Theatre

Welcome to the 8th biennial dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival!
Welcome to the 8th biennial dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival!

All around us, people are searching—for hope, clarity, or simply a moment to breathe. In times like these, we turn to the arts: to gather, to feel, and to connect in ways that go beyond words. The arts respond. The arts provide.

This year’s dance: made in canada / fait au canada Festival (d:mic/fac) brings together artists who are responding to the world around them with honesty, courage, and imagination. Their works remind us that movement can hold both struggle and joy, and that dance can speak what words often cannot.

Some pieces speak directly to the world we live in now. In BESIDE, Marie Béland explores how media shapes our beliefs and the ways we connect with others. What Belongs to Us/Ce qui nous appartient by Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio turns the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into movement, asking: who gets to feel safe, free, and included? Tanveer Alam’s Aakarsh and Cristina Bucci’s Project Inizi reimagine traditional dance forms, showing how stories from the past evolve into something new.

These performances are more than just shows— they are stories that ask more than they answer, acts of celebration and resistance, and invitations to reflect. Whether you’ve loved dance for years or are seeing contemporary dance for the first time, we believe you’ll find something that moves you.

It’s also been a great honour to work alongside this year’s guest curators, Jera Wolfe and Louise Lecavalier, in shaping the Mainstage programming. Their vision and experience have helped us bring together a striking range of voices and visions that reflect the complexity of this moment in time.

Alongside the Mainstage and *WYSIWYG series, our Arts Encounters programming offers new ways for audiences to engage with dance and movement arts —through films, installations, workshops, talks, and more. These experiences invite you to go deeper, connect differently, and see movement from fresh perspectives.

To our artists, audiences, and supporters: thank you. Your presence here matters. Welcome to d:mic/fac 2025. The arts respond. The arts provide. Let’s keep moving forward—together.

Artistic Director: Yvonne Ng 黄碧琬
Co-Festival Directors: Jeff Morris, Janelle Rainville, Yvonne Ng

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The 2025 d:mic/fac Festival is dedicated to Roloef Peter (Ron) Snippe, Lighting Designer.
January 23, 1948 – June 24, 2025

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Explore our 4 different programs showcasing our mainstage artists for the 2025 festival, and our new programme this year, Haute Couture.

Haute Couture

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The Morrison Series

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The Wolfe Series

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The Lecavalier Series

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WYSIWYG

At WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), we hand the reins over to chance—letting it happen and allowing creativity to take the lead. Artists are selected by lottery (with minimum professional requirements)—because sometimes the most exciting things happen when you loosen control and trust the unknown.

WYSIWYG celebrates the unexpected: fresh voices, surprising collisions, and the spark of something you didn’t see coming.

This year, five bold artists—fresh voices and fearless creators—step forward with works that are distinct, daring, and full of heart.

We invite you to lean in, let go of expectations, and discover what unfolds.

This image shows a group of approximately 18 dancers performing on stage under intense red and orange lighting. The dancers are positioned in staggered rows, all facing the front with knees bent and arms held out at right angles, elbows raised and fists pointed forward. They are dressed uniformly in dark red or maroon outfits, including sleeveless tops and pants. The bold red backdrop and dramatic shadows on the floor create a dynamic, high-energy atmosphere that emphasizes the power and unity of the ensemble movement.

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Arts Encounters

Arts Encounters is the multi-arts platform of the d:mic/fac Festival, inviting audiences to experience dance in new and unexpected ways.

Through installations, photography, dance films, podcasts, site-specific flamenco, workshops, and Botanical Readings, Arts Encounters brings movement into conversation with other art forms—expanding how we see, feel, and connect with dance.

These encounters create additional pathways into the Festival’s live performances, offering moments of discovery, reflection, and shared experience.

Celebrating the creativity of artists working across disciplines, Arts Encounters helps broaden the Festival’s reach and reminds us that dance is not confined to the stage—it can be found anywhere we are willing to meet it.

A group of six contemporary dancers perform an expressive, dynamic pose in the middle of an urban street. Their movements are layered and intertwined, with arms extended in various directions. The dancers are dressed in casual, street-style clothing. Tall buildings and Korean signage are visible in the background, suggesting a multicultural, urban setting. The mood is energetic and collaborative, capturing a moment of intense physical storytelling.

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