Citadel Dance Exchange
In collaboration with The National Ballet of Canada’s Creative Action Programme
A joint initiative from Citadel + Compagnie and The National Ballet of Canada’s Creative Action programme, Citadel Dance Exchange (formerly titled Citadel Spring Mix) is seeking proposals from local professional dance artists for new works to be developed and brought to the stage.
The Citadel Dance Exchange artists for 2025 have been selected and will be announced soon.
To further the possibilities for collaboration and exchange, we have launched the inaugural Emerging Lighting Designer Initiative in partnership with this programme. We are currently accepting applications from emerging professional lighting designers who are interested in working with the four selected choreographers. Please find the details and application portal below.
What is Citadel Dance Exchange?
The Citadel Dance Exchange is an exciting annual dance series featuring works by some of Canada’s most talented artists. Launched in 2023, the Citadel Dance Exchange will feature new works by Toronto-based artists, alongside works by Montréal-based artists invited by Citadel + Compagnie, and will be presented at The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance, April 2 – 12, 2025.
This call is open to Toronto-based artists at all stages of their careers and aims to support artists, companies or collectives who are presenting new works. We are eager to support early-career artists, people trying something new in their artistic practice or artists in new collaborations. We are looking for projects or ideas that have already been through an initial period of research* and are ready to be developed further for public presentation. If you think the resources made available through this programme would support you in taking the next step in your artistic development, please apply. Four projects will be selected.
*We regard an initial period of research as time spent exploring an idea through movement, documented conversations with collaborators or writing, imagery and/or research as it pertains to the project you would like to present at Citadel Dance Exchange.
Selections will be made by the National Ballet’s Open Space Selection Committee and evaluated based on artistic merit, originality and viability within a multi-artist event. The committee will look at applications in relation to one another with a curatorial approach.
The Committee
Alyssa Martin, Artistic Producer, Creative Action, The National Ballet of Canada
Ashley Colours Perez, dancer, teacher, choreographer and Co-Artistic Director, Mix Mix Dance Collective
Irma Villafuerte, dance artist, choreographer, educator and Co-Founder of CinnaMoon Collective
Details
Emerging Lighting Designers Initiative
Citadel Dance Exchange, a joint initiative is seeking one emerging professional lighting designer to work with four choreographers on new short works to be presented at The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance, April 2 – 12, 2025
The Citadel Dance Exchange is an exciting annual dance series featuring works by some of Canada’s most talented artists. Launched in 2023, the Citadel Dance Exchange will feature new works by Toronto-based artists, alongside works by Montréal-based artists invited by Citadel + Compagnie.
