Princess productions present the eighth edition of the dance: made in canada / fait au canada (d:mic/fac) Festival 2025. This year’s Festival brings together a great lineup of artists responding to the world around them.
Through powerful movement and deeply personal storytelling, d:mic/fac 2025 celebrates Canadian dance in all its forms: bridging generations, genres, and lived experiences. These works remind us that “movement can hold both struggle and joy, and that dance can speak what words often cannot”.
Mainstage Program
This program is co-curated by guest curators Jera Wolfe and Louise Lecavalier alongside Artistic Director Yvonne Ng. It features dance works that respond to the times we’re living in. Artists explore themes of media influence, identity, inclusion, and transformation, offering both resistance and celebration.
- BESIDE by Marie Béland, a sharp and timely investigation of how the media frames our connections and beliefs.
- What Belongs to Us / Ce qui nous appartient by Suzanne Miller, which transforms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into movement, posing urgent questions about safety, freedom, and belonging.
- Aakarsh by Tanveer Alam and Project Inizi by Cristina Bucci reimagine traditional dance forms in modern contexts.
Haute Couture Presentation
Part of the Mainstage Program and for the first time in d:mic/fac history, the festival programming includes a full-length work. The inaugural Haute Couture Presentation features Still Life by Marie Lambin-Gagnon, a 2023 WYSIWYG alum, in a co-presentation with SummerWorks and Citadel + Compagnie.
Additional Programming
The What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) program continues to embrace creative spontaneity and accessibility, showcasing a dynamic mix of artists selected through a lottery process. WYSIWYG provides a platform for emerging and established voices alike, sharing the stage in an open-format series celebrating experimentation and equal footing.
Complementing the live performances, Arts Encounters offers an interactive experience led by dance artists and designed to foster dialogue and deepen audience engagement. Arts Encounters opens up new ways to experience and understand dance through different mediums.
Performance Details
August 14–17, 2025
The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance
304 Parliament Street, Toronto, ON
August 21–24, 2025
Betty Oliphant Theatre
404 Jarvis Street, Toronto, ON
Pricing: Tickets for Haute Couture, Mainstage, WYSIWYG performances and dance film screenings are PWYC, starting at $15 CAD.
For festival details including showtimes, tickets, and more, please visit dancemadeincanada.ca.
