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CanAsian Dance

“A triumphant celebration of Asian roots” - Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail

Staff

Ariana Shaw, General Manager
Jasmine Au, Administrative Assistant
Karen Bennedsen, Bookkeeper

Board of Directors
Coman P**n, President
David Norsworthy
Brandy Leary

03/09/2026

JOIN THE CANASIAN DANCE BOARD 🌟 Your voice, experience, and perspective matter to us.

We’re excited to hear from candidates with experience in areas such as: • Arts advocacy, cultural policy, or sector leadership • Fundraising, audience development, donor relations & sponsorships • Legal expertise in the non-profit or charitable sector • Human Resources experience in non-profit or arts organizations • Artists and arts workers interested in board service

No prior board experience is required 🌟just a commitment to community and the future of dance making in Canada. ✨ LINK IN BIO TO SELF NOMINATE

03/05/2026

🌀 Community Conversations addresses the needs of Asian diasporic dance artists, by providing a space for dialogue and connection regarding community issues. Can we create sustainable abundance with a network of support through sharing information? What can we learn from each other? What do people need?

Join us - IN PERSON IN MTL - for a causal gathering and discussion regarding ORGANIZING - LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER 🔜🔜🔜

01/14/2026

🗓️ January 13 2026

🕛 8:45pm

📍Buddies in Bad Times Theatre: Tallulah’s Cabaret

🎟️ Free Event

Make Banana Cry, in partnership with CanAsian Dance, hosts Dance Talks: Parallel Works, Pluriperspectives Embodied. Four Toronto-based Asian artists will share insights, questions, and excerpts from their current practices, offering a glimpse into the vastness and complexity of what “Asianness” can encompass.

Dance Talks is an addendum event inside Tallulah’s Cabaret at Buddies, that fosters dialogue among Asian diasporic dance artists and between other artists and the public. The series encourages candid exchange, exploring both difference and common ground across lived experience, artistic practice, and perspective.

Invited Artists: .tan

01/07/2026

A moment of reflection from Magic Mixing 2025 artist We appreciate you! 🌟 The deadline for this years creative exchange is coming up ~ Apply by January 18th to participate in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver ~ LINK IN BIO and share widely with your community 😌

12/19/2025

CanAsian Dance is excited to launch the second year of Magic Mixing 💥💥💥Six Asian Diaspora artists with diverse practices will be paired and gather in Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver for one-week to exchange, explore, and create collaboratively. We are super excited to be partnering with and / who have all contributed resources that allow Magic Mixing to happen such as space for research, creation and sharing.

Artists may choose to participate as a local or out-of-town artist in each city they apply to. CAD will provide each artist a fee of $1,367, with travel, accommodation, and per diem covered for out-of-town artists. The creative exchange culminates with an informal public sharing and conversation, shaped by the artists with support from CAD’s Artistic Lead, Angie Cheng.

Application Deadline: January 18, 2026, 11:59 PM EST All applicants will be notified of the results by March 2026.

LINK IN BIO FOR Application and Full Program details

12/15/2025

CanAsian Dance is thrilled to welcome this year’s artists to our 2025 Entry Waves residency program, presented in collaboration with Toronto Dance Theatre. We’d like to introduce you to ~ Sixth Sense Collective: Charlotte Carbone & Cassandra Myers, Neena Jayarajan, Chadley Tan, Aryana Malekzadeh, Ranganathan Rajan, and Warren Kang.
For this year’s Entry Waves, we’ve created a shared micro-environment in the building. A place that fosters creativity, care, and supportive exchange among our resident artists. In between the half day residency work periods, we encourage everyone to connect with one another in the central space ~ taking time to rest, reset, and be in community together. Midway through the week, we’ll gather for a casual snack-and-chat. This is an opportunity to connect, converse, and share stories around practice, work, and life.

Entry Waves is proudly supported by the following funding parters: Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council.

Sixth Sense Collective: Charlotte Carbone & Cassandra Myers - photo by Danielle Lastres
Neena Jayarajan - photo by Andrew Adams
Chadley Tan - photo by Curtis Alvaro
Aryana Malekzadeh - photo by Aidan Tooth
Ranganathan Rajan - photo by Aidan Tooth
Warren Kang - photo by Warren Kang

03/14/2025

🌀 CAD virtual community check-ins will address the needs of Asian diasporic dance artists for dialogue about community issues. The gatherings will allow us to directly respond—for example, to community events/incidents, emerging political issues, and broader social currents—in emergent and quick ways.
For our inaugural community check-in, we invite Asian diaspora dance artists from across Canada to meet the new team of CAD. Where we can introduce ourselves, and what we are thinking and working on here in CAD. It will also be a moment for us to meet you, the many artists in different communities that we may not know or have only met in passing. We are proposing a first encounter, a meet and greet and introduction.   We have created a link to a poll to determine the best potential times to gather - LINK IN BIO! We can’t wait to meet you 🌀

03/11/2025

MERYENDA ☀️
[snack, or in-between meal in Tagalog]

Join CanAsian Dance & for a facilitated conversation with artists from the Philippine Diaspora creating performances in response to and through the lens of diasporic experiences.

March 23, 2025, 1pm-4 pm
(conversation at 2 pm)
Parkdale Library Auditorium (Basement)
1303 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6K 1L6
RSVP LINK IN BIO

Invited artists Ralph Escamillan, Patrick Alcedo, Candace Kumar, Blessy Buan, & Andrew Tay, will converse with facilitators Bee Pallomina and Fran Chudnoff about their experiences as artists and scholars working in the diaspora. These invited artists and attendees will work through questions like “How are contemporary practices in conversation with traditional forms? How do we work with culture and heritage, abiding or not traditional forms? How do we curate works sensitively with awareness to contexts of migration, colonialism and modernity?”

Snacks and beverages will be served

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http://www.canasiandance.com/

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