Since we assumed leadership of Fall for Dance North in November 2024, it has been an exciting period focussed on wrapping up the year in a strong position and building toward a vibrant 2025 festival. We have spent a great deal of time with our team, envisioning the future of FFDN, and building strategies to ensure we can continue to deliver an innovative and inspiring annual dance festival for our Toronto audiences, for another decade to come!

As we embrace the new year, we want to thank you all for your support through the 2024 festival. It was wonderful to meet so many of you at performances as well as events like Tkaranto Open and Studio 24 and we’re grateful for your enthusiastic welcome.

We also want to thank Valerie Wilder for her dedicated leadership as board chair for the last 3.5 years, and take an opportunity to welcome Karen Sparks as FFDN’s new board chair, appointed as of November 25, 2024. We are thrilled to be working alongside Karen in this new capacity as she is a lifelong dance fan, a devoted volunteer and shares our vision for Toronto as an important cultural city.

We look forward to sharing more of our plans soon. Stay tuned for an announcement of our 2025 festival dates in early spring as well as ways for you to fall in love with dance all year round.

Lily Sutherland, Festival Director & Co-CEO

Robert Binet, Artistic Director & Co-CEO