Campaign: Step Forward
caring for dancers
Join us as we wrap up our 40th year of celebration and impact! This giving season, we are launching our Step Forward campaign.
Your generosity will help us expand our programs, nurture dance artists, and create opportunities that elevate the entire sector. Together, we can ensure that the rhythm of our community never skips a beat!
One constant remains unchanged: Canadian dancers require ongoing assistance as they persist through significant life setbacks and professional challenges. Your support remains crucial in fostering resilience among our members as they navigate the challenging choreography of career transition.
Our annual Step Forward campaign is now underway, and we have set a bold target to fundraise a total of $20,000.
Today we ask you to make a donation this giving season and be part of our mission to serve professional Canadian dancers from diverse backgrounds, dance forms and practices in career development and transition.
The challenge of transitioning careers as a dancer poses multifaceted hurdles. For dancers, this transition creates extraordinary economic strain and deeply impacts their sense of self, identity, and worth. Transitioning from a field that significantly enriches society through its exceptional artistic contributions involves a fundamental paradigm shift for these individuals. It also requires them to identify alternate passions and aptitudes, develop entirely different skill sets, and build new professional networks and relationships
Our counselling program facilitates this process, and our grants provide financial support that help subsidize tuition – for both short and longer-term programs – as well as living expenses for members in full-time studies. A dancer may be striving to establish a parallel career that provides stability and continuity alongside an artistic career; or they may be making the substantial move to leave dance and pursue an entirely new pathway. Either way, their process is complex and uncertain.
The DTRC will continue to evolve and support dancers, as we have for the past 40 years. Please contribute to support our Step Forward campaign. Your contribution will help us meet the ongoing surge in demand for counselling services and career training support, as dancers pivot and pursue new futures.
Canadian dancers need us! Make a donation today and be part of directly making a difference in the lives of dancers across Canada.
