Lights, Dance, Action
Lights Dance Festival brings together the vibrant dance and film communities of Canada to celebrate the beauty of expression through movement.
As you may have guessed, this year’s Lights Dance Festival will not be able to take place as originally planned due to ongoing circumstances. During difficult times, the need for art is perhaps more important then ever and we remain just as committed to bringing dance to all of you.
Our team is currently reviewing options for moving our festival to an online platform. Follow us on our social media to receive the latest updates.
Take care and stay safe!
P.S. For filmmakers and dancers who have submitted works, we will be in touch via email with updates regarding your submissions.
Lights Dance Festival is a non-profit organization that relies on ticket sales, sponsorships and donations to pay artist fees, instructor fees, and operational costs. This year, due to the pandemic, our festival is being offered online for free. If you are enjoying our offerings, please consider making a donation to help us pay our artists and instructors and to help us continue to celebrate dance and dance film.
Salt Water
Salt Water explores the contrast between the force of natural events and our own need and desire for stability. The work opens with an abstract sculptural mass of more than twenty dancers interlocked with bare curved backs that sway, rise and fall in wave-like motions. Individual identification is only a momentary glimpse. Beneath the abstract form, intimate human connections reside.
MASS
MASS is a 10 minutes single take video-dance shot in Paris. The project was framed within the Danse en Seine’s choreographic workshops, including 40 amateur dancers. Images of the crowd appear more and more often and symbolize the current upheavals all over the world, evoking alternately parties, migrations of refugees, manifestations, religious gatherings or just the daily life of big cities. We thus work on the mass, with all the drunkenness and horror it can inspire. We confront the individual with crowd movements, in order to observe how he resists or lets immerse himself.
Coffee House Fundraiser
An evening featuring local artists, raffle prizes, and complimentary decadent treats! Lights Dance Festival invites you to our Fall Coffee House Fundraiser hosted by Japanese confections shop, LeTAO. This event will also feature performances from musical guests and a reading with Canadian Digital Artist, Writer, and Educator, Aaron Tucker.
Our fundraiser ticket includes complimentary cheesecake samples, a discount on our event-exclusive Lights Dance Cocktail, and entry to our Raffle Draw.
Raffle Draw prizes include:
– Products from Lush Cosmetics North America
– Felix and Norton Cookies
– Two Tickets to Bad Dog Theatre Company
St. George by the Grange
Lights Dance Festival 2019 was graciously hosted by our partner St. George by the Grange.
You can book it here.
Our 2019 Partners & Sponsors
We thank these lovely people for contributing to our preliminary crowdfunding campaign earlier this year!
Sian Melton, Jared Fath, Esther Lee, Bonnie Cheung, Vicki Kim, Sylvia van Helden, Heather Renzella, Robyn Boere, Jak Li, Cedric Tai, Luisa Cheng, Jacques Boulet, Yiqun Zhu, Kevin Ho
Partners: Hot Docs, Native Earth Performing Arts, Tapestry Opera, St. George by the Grange, Queen Books, Eastbound Brewery, LUSH, Sylvia van Helden, Bird & Rhino