Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre

Specialties

CCDT School and Company specialize in ballet, modern dance and performance training for children and young dancers up to twenty years of age. Our award winning contemporary dance company, made up of next generation artists in their teens, tours and performs professionally across Canada and abroad. Our year round school features an international summer intensive, SunDance in partnership with the Royal Academy of Dance. We operate a studio rental business and dance wear store in association with these activities.

History

Established in 1980.

CCDT was founded in 1980 to provide a professional performance alternative to prevailing competition, recital and examination activities usually associated with dance training. The School grew out of the company in 1983. SCCDT students benefit from the same approach to dance as an art form, not a competitive sport, that won CCDT the Toronto Arts Foundation Arts for Youth Award in 2011. Former SCCDT students and CCDT dancers regularly join such prestigious schools as Juilliard and SUNY Purchase, perform with such renown companies as Mark Morris, Jose Limon, Doug Varone and Toronto Dance Theatre and lead their own companies in Toronto, New York, London, Paris and Brussels. The company has toured China, Singapore, Malaysia and the USA and has had five invitations to the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa. In 1994 CCDT purchased its own 10,000 square foot studios in the heart of Cabbagetown, Toronto, where it thrives as an intergenerational home to hundreds of local and visiting artists.

Meet the Business Owner

Deborah L.

Business Owner

Deborah Lundmark is Founder and Artistic Director of Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre (formerly Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre), recent winner of the Toronto Arts Foundation Arts for Youth Award. She is the 33 year old company’s Resident Choreographer and Founding Director of the School of CCDT. Deborah continues to teach RAD Ballet in her school on Parliament Street and to build upon her fifty piece repertoire for CCDT. These include collaborations with Danny Grossman, Holly Small, Toronto Children’s Chorus and Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. From Street Songs (1980) to Precipice (2010), Deborah has been noted for her ability to nurture young dancers’ joy in movement without sacrificing the technical precision expected of professionals.