Are you ready for CARE Festival?

Care Dance (16 x 8 in) (24 x 8 in) (36 x 8 in) (48 x 8 in)

2024/2025 Season Events

Workshop - November 24th
Vaughan Festival - March 22nd - Limited Spaces Available
Oshawa Festival - April 12-13th
Special Event - June 29th

2025/2026 Season Events

Workshop - November 16th - GTA

Toronto Festival # 1- TBD
Oshawa Festival - April 11-12
NEW - Ottawa Festival - April 25-26th
TBD - May 2-3rd
Toronto Festival #2 - TBD
Niagara Falls Festival and Special Event - June 28th-29th

International Events
NEW - Roatan Honduras Festival - March 21-22nd

Festival of Dance and Performing Arts

Why we are different?

Our event is focused on part-time, novice, dancers from small or part-time studios.
We welcome recreational dancers to attend as well.
Most dancers train less than 6 hours per week, however we do offer a separate category for 7-9 hours as well.
Studios can bring up to 50 entries per event.

We offer categories for:
Beginner - Novice - first year of competition or first year competing a solo or duet/trio
Amateur - 1-3 hours
Achieving - 3-6 hours
Aspiring - 7-9 hours (or 7-9 dances at the competition)

One - Two Day Events on Weekends Only

Our events are 1-2 day events. Our events can be either set as regular scheduled competitions or block scheduling so your dancers and staff do not have to spend the entire weekend at the theatre.

Each dancer receives a placement medal

Each dancer receives a medal that matches the placement they received. Special awards are given by the judges and Star Performer awards for students with excellent performance quality.

Dancers Compete for Placements

There are no overalls, but students are challenged with clear actionable adjudications to improve their dance skills. Students work to their personal best and grow as a dancer at each session. Focus is on your dancers individual progress and artistic expression.

Your Team Won't Be Competing Against Each Other

If you have two students in contemporary solos of the same age so they will usually compete against each other - Not with CARE! At CARE you can enter as many age 15 contemporary solos as you want and your team won't be competing against each other because the judges mark each dance based on their own merit. Students can focus on work hard on their own dance to receive high scores not to try to beat their own teammates.

Judges are teachers who work with part-time and recreational dance students

These judges know exactly how to score and what to expect from part-time / recreational students because they currently teach them!

Awards Session!

Dancers are presented their medals onstage individually by the judges. This is a great photo opportunity for the studios, plus each studio gets a group photo from our fantastic photography team at the end of their awards.

This is the part-time / small studio's chance to SHINE!

For more dates and details please fill out inquiry form below or contact us at info@caredance.ca

Care Festival Features

Other features of our event....

One or Two Day Events with Studio Friendly Scheduling

No 4 day weekends at the theatre or kids missing school to compete.

Weekend events only - 1 or 2 day competitions.

Judges Teach Part-Time & Recreational Dancers

The judges teach part-time and recreational dancers. It is important that these judges have and are working with this level of students, which gives them the opportunity to give specific relevant critiques.

Your Own Studio Awards Session!

Each school has their own studio awards session! Dancers are presented their medals onstage individually by the judges.

This is a great photo opportunity for the studios, plus each studio gets a group photo from our fantastic photography team at the end of their awards.

CARE Dance Festival & Alliance

*Please include all technique classes and choreography classes in your calculation of hours except solos unless solos are private weekly classes that run more than 12 weeks.

*If your dancer is listed as Achieving 6 hours but is competing 8 routines they will be moved to the Aspiring Category