CanAsian Dance supports Canadian Asian diaspora choreographers in the creation of dance through the commissioning, presentation and promotion of live performance, and the cultivation of intercultural and intergenerational knowledge exchange. We are working towards a world where openness to exchange, as well as culture specificity in knowledge and artistic practice are not only valued but harnessed for collaborative disruption and creation.

We do this by:

· Commissioning choreographers to create new performance work.

· Supporting their professional development with an enriched creative process that encourages the artist’s practice and supports their vision.

· Creating mentorships and supporting relationships and collaborations that encourage questioning and the exchange of ideas, aesthetics, practices and wisdom, through creative process.

· Fostering the development of new generations of artists by providing tiered presentation and professional development opportunities for a range of new, emerging and mid-career dance artists.

· Promoting and presenting the commissioned performance works to the Canadian public.

· Presenting workshops, master classes and forums for dance and other performing artists, to support professional development, to foster greater understanding and appreciation of diverse dance and cultural practices and ways of being in the world.

· Partnering with presenters in other parts of Canada to facilitate performance and tour opportunities for commissioned artists.

· Fostering understanding and appreciation in our audiences of the diversity of dance artistry in Canada.

We believe that cultivating critical and rigorous ways of thinking and working, in particular, drawing on the myriad ways of thinking that derive from Asian philosophies, practices, ideas, embodied creativity and intelligence, gives us all greater possibilities for creating fresh perspectives and innovative solutions to the world’s large and small predicaments.