princess productions presents the eighth biennial dance: made in canada / fait au canada (d:mic/fac) Pageant 2025, and the programming has been introduced. The pageant takes over two venues in Toronto from August 14 to 17, and once more from August 21 to 24.
Programming contains leading edge artists in efficiency and extra throughout three programming ideas: the Mainstage, the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) collection, and Arts Encounters.
“Each version of the pageant displays the place we’re, as artists, as individuals, and this 12 months feels particularly uncooked and actual. The works in d:mic/fac 2025 are daring, heartfelt, and deeply human. They converse to who we’re proper now, and who we’re changing into,” says Yvonne Ng, d:mic/fac Creative Director, in a press release.
Pageant At A Look
The Mainstage program has been co-curated by visitor curators Jera Wolfe and dance legend Louise Lecavalier alongside Creative Director Yvonne Ng. This program options works that reply to the occasions we’re dwelling in, and revolve round modern themes like media affect, identification, inclusion, and transformation by a lens that gives resistance and celebration.
Highlights embody:
- BESIDE by Marie Béland seems to be at how media influences our beliefs, and the best way we join with others.
- What Belongs to Us / Ce qui nous appartient by Suzanne Miller takes the Common Declaration of Human Rights and interprets it into motion in a piece about freedom, belonging, and security.
- Works by Tanveer Alam and Cristina Bucci reimagine conventional dance varieties in trendy contexts.
The Mainstage program, for the primary time, features a full-length work in what has been dubbed the Haute Couture presentation. Nonetheless Life by Marie Lambin-Gagnon, a 2023 WYSIWYG alum, in a co-presentation with SummerWorks and Citadel + Compagnie.
Nonetheless Life is an invite to decelerate and actually observe textures, time, and the tales carried by our our bodies, and challenges the methods wherein ladies’s our bodies have historically been depicted in artwork. It’s a piece that builds quietly however powerfully.
The What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
The WYSIWYG program is a spot for spontaneity and accessibility. Artists are chosen through a lottery course of that creates a mixture of artists and types. It’s a spot to see each rising and established artists sharing the stage.
The collection contains works by Dr. Yeonji Hong, Reequal Smith, Ryan Lee, Vania Dodoo-Beals & Carleen Zouboules, and Lydia Zimmer.
Arts Encounters
Arts Encounters are interactive experiences led by dance artists. They’re designed to spark dialogue and enlarge on the standard viewers engagement as a complement to the stay performances.
The lineup contains workshops, movies, podcasts, site-specific flamenco, Botanical Readings, and extra.
Screendance
The Screendance programming affords dance on video and movie, out there both in-person or on-line.
The in-person screening on August 23 on the Carlton Cinema affords 5 dance movies.
The web screenings provide three dates: August 21, 22 and 23. Registration is required.
Efficiency Particulars
August 14–17, 2025
The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance
304 Parliament Road, Toronto, ON
August 21–24, 2025 (as a part of SummerWorks)
Betty Oliphant Theatre
404 Jarvis Road, Toronto, ON
Pricing: Tickets for Haute Couture, Mainstage, WYSIWYG performances and dance movie screenings are PWYC, beginning at $15.
- Extra info, tickets, and accessibility particulars [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 a long time, and a artistic writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
