Dance

A place for professional dancers and choreographers to research, train, and create new works.

Intercultural Indigenous Choreographers Creation Lab, 2018. Photo by Jessica Wittman

Dance

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Dance programs at Banff Centre provide a rare space for today’s curious professional dance artist. Dance programs encourage research, sharing, and questions around topics such as the creation process, training, somatic practices, and the future of contemporary dance.

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Dance Artists in Residence

Program Dates December 02, 2024 - December 14, 2024

Dance Artists in Residence 2024

Focused studio time in an unparalleled mountain environment, for the creation and development of new dance works.

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Five dancers are posed in a circle with their arms outstretched and touching, on a stage that is illuminated with blue l

Program Dates February 03, 2025 - February 22, 2025

Dance Residency: Final Tuning - Winter 2025

This dance program provides time and resources at Banff Centre to put finishing touches on your work, culminating in a public showing in one of our theatres.

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The staff and faculty encouraged us and made it possible to ask and answer the questions, try the experiments, and push the boundaries in order to better understand ourselves, our methodology, and the work.

Erin O'Loughlin, Final Tuning 2023

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Banff Centre Announces Daina Ashbee, Artist, Performer, and Choreographer as Recipient of the Clifford E. Lee Award.

Banff Centre Announces Artist, Performer, and Choreographer, Daina Ashbee as Recipient of the 2022 Clifford E. Lee Award.

Banff Centre Announces Artist, Performer, and Choreographer, Daina Ashbee as Recipient of the 2022 Clifford E. Lee Award.

New Director of Dance Training: Alejandro Ronceria

Alejandro Ronceira: New Dance Director Training Programming at Banff Centre
Rooted in Culture, Trained in Ballet, Open to the World

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Email: arts_info@banffcentre.ca
Phone: 403.762.610

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403.762.6100

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107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
PO Box 1020
Banff, Alberta
Canada
T1L 1H5

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We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.