Fall for Dance North (FFDN) presents its 11th annual international dance festival, celebrating movement, culture, and creativity across borders. From October 15–26, audiences can experience a vibrant lineup featuring more than 30 Canadian and international artists, spanning genres from ballet to street dance, Kathak to Afro-fusion.
The festival features three mainstage signature mixed programs showcasing a diverse range of contemporary and classical dance styles from some of the world’s leading dance artists. FFDN 2025 will also introduce two new audience experiences: a uniquely intimate 45-minute dance series with front row only seating, and a dance and visual arts combo at OCAD U with free adjacent programming at the AGO for FFDN ticket holders.
AFROFUSION: Signature Programme 1 (October 15 – 18)
AFROFUSION: Signature Programme 1 brings together powerful elements of Traditional and Contemporary West African Dance, Street Dance, Afro-Latin Dance, Contemporary and Modern Dance, Jazz and Salsa across three distinct works. AFROFUSION will be an emotional and exhilarating journey of human experience told through dance forms practiced and reimagined by global artists of the African diaspora.
HOMEGROWN: Signature Programme 2 (October 18 – 19)
HOMEGROWN: Signature Programme 2 celebrates the global connectivity of Toronto choreographers and artists. Street Dance, Contemporary Dance, Traditional West African Dance and African Street Dance intersect on the FFDN stage just as they do across our city. There is so much to explore in the Toronto dance scene – the world is already here!
KATHAK & BALLET: Signature Programme 3 (October 23 – 25)
Featuring the UK’s The Royal Ballet, India’s Nad-Roop Company and Dheerendra Tiwari, and Toronto’s own Tanveer Alam, KATHAK & BALLET will interweave highly codified dance forms and complex choreographic works to tell a new story of confluence and divergence across eastern and western movement traditions and aesthetics.
Intimate Pairings (October 21 – 23)
Intimate Pairings offers every audience member the exhilarating experience of sitting in the front row! At 45 minutes, this up close and personal experience is easily enjoyed and a fresh way to discover, or rediscover, the magic of live dance.
Up Next (October 25 – 26)
For the first time ever, FFDN is at OCAD U’s The Great Hall with an hour long, timed entry performance experience, Up Next. This one is all about looking forward: Discover Toronto’s next great contemporary dancers, emerging stars of Indigenous Old Style and Contemporary Jingle Dance, co-presented with Luminato Festival, and Dancing with Blindness – a radical new way of perceiving dance.
