Vancouver International Dance Festival Society

The vancouver international dance festival (vidf) is a non-profit artist-run organization dedicated to supporting and furthering the art of culturally diverse contemporary dance. The vidf was launched in 2000 with the objective of putting vancouver on the international map of dance. Now in its 24th year the vidf has presented 321 dance artists/companies to more than 100 000 people. We celebrate and focus on the diversity of contemporary dance expression its individuality and its astonishing capacity for touching one's heart and soul. Our mission is to build audiences and appreciation for equity-deserving contemporary dance artists and marginalized contemporary dance practices through programming a spectrum of kinetically exciting work that broadens definitions of the form. Since its inception the vidf has presented artists such as alonzo king lines ballet (usa) dairakudakan (japan) kokoro dance (canada) wen wei dance (canada) and many more! Last year marks an expansion on our programming to include an interdisciplinary series of jazz james featuring dance artists improvising in real time with members of the vancouver improvised music community.