VISION

Good Women Dance Collective (GWDC) envisions a vibrant, sustainable, inclusive and diverse dance community in Edmonton.

MISSION STATEMENTS

To cultivate its vision of a vibrant, sustainable, inclusive and diverse dance community in Edmonton, Good Women Dance Collective combines the artistic pursuits of its Collective Artists with support for dance artists and audience development.

The Collective’s artistic focus is on creating, commissioning, performing, and producing dance works, as well as cross-disciplinary co-productions, with physical depth and social relevance that challenge its artists and audiences.

The Collective works to encourage artistic growth, provide training, and support the careers and practice of emerging and established dance artists.

The Collective aims to enrich the public’s experience and understanding of contemporary dance.

While GWDC strives to foster the continued growth and development of Edmonton artists, it is also committed to offering opportunities for dialogue and engagement between artists and the public regionally and nationally.

MANDATE

Good Women Dance Collective is a not-for-profit society and charitable organization based in Edmonton.

GWDC operates as an artist-run collective supported by a volunteer Board of Directors and members of the registered society.

GWDC artists’ approach to truly collective creation and shared administration of the company challenges both hierarchical choreographic approaches and traditional top-down company structures.

VALUES

The guiding values of Good Women Dance Collective include the importance of:

• Diversity in dance and the arts

• Inclusivity in dance and the arts

• Gender equity in dance and the arts

• Artistic quality, integrity, conviction, and risk-taking

• A collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to dance

• A responsibility to stimulate, lead and support artistic growth throughout our local community as well as being an active presence regionally and nationally

• Collective guidance and leadership in dance and the arts

• Strong, interactive relationships between audiences and artists