U of T Dance Festival 2021

Overview

Hart House Theatre proudly hosts Canada’s largest university dance festival – the U of T Festival of Dance (FoD).

Created 26 years ago as an avenue to provide dance groups on campus the opportunity to perform on stage for an audience, the Festival of Dance has now grown into a celebration of the diversity and prosperity of the U of T dance community. Past events have included over 60 different dance pieces, well over 200 performers and an impressive variety of dance forms including jazz, ballet, ballroom, modern, contact improv, hip-hop, musical theatre, Irish, Latin, and Egyptian belly dancing, just to name a few. With such an abundance of dance groups associated with U of T, participation in the festival is a great opportunity for dance groups to interact, collaborate and promote their own work and ventures.

New This Year

Fully Virtual, Fully Fun

This year, our Festival will be held entirely online. We will be releasing a series of four episodes showcasing choreographic works on YouTube over the span of a few weeks rather than an in-person, two-night show as we have done in the past. There will be no ticket price, so performances will be shared publicly and free of charge. Program information for each piece will be shared virtually as well.

All episodes will be available on our YouTube channel following their premiere. Episode one premieres on Friday, April 16 at 5:00 pm.

If you have any questions please contact the FoD Team.