Canadian Heritage committee  We are suggesting both. Television networks are still more mainstream than social media. We need a combination of mainstream media and social media creating the buzz. We have to create some buzz.

Canadian Heritage committee  More and more dance videos are being developed. More and more events are being shown.

Canadian Heritage committee  I am not sure because the fact remains that dance requires contact with the public. That is very important. But showing beautiful images might be used for something else.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  How will we fund those projects? What type of equipment do we have? How are we paying for the specialized skills we need? Without exception, that is the situation of the dance sector. We don’t have an access program like the one the industry has access to. We don’t have research

Canadian Heritage committee  It should make an investment.

Canadian Heritage committee  One day the Canada Council for the Arts has the most money allocated to help us, the next day Heritage Canada does. Set it up any way you like, but we need funding.

Canadian Heritage committee  The program was designed for industry. It is not suitable for our arts sectors.

Canadian Heritage committee  The vitality is still there. Dance audiences in Quebec represent 4% of all performing arts audiences. But even though it is only a small proportion, that audience is growing. What is it that helps to make dance and the audience for dance grow? Among other things, it takes promo

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. They have a major role to play. They are the focal point, they are the people who promote dance in communities. They have to have the tools.

Canadian Heritage committee  We do that already, but it takes a lot of work. For it to be done well, we need partnerships. Partnerships must be established and developed with other organizations and with schools. Although that is work in the trenches, basic work, work for the long haul, it pays off.

Canadian Heritage committee  We have to take a very close look at what dance is developing with a very young audience, in schools and community centres. It is quite fascinating to see the impact of the young audience dance performances on kids and their parents. I think that it is certainly an investment in

Canadian Heritage committee  A work is something original that implies research, experimentation and rehearsal. Generally, a work has quite a short lifespan, unless it gets included in a major series of international tours. Choreographers are therefore constantly required to reinvent themselves and create ne

Canadian Heritage committee  At a minimum, it needs to be more visible in our media. Seeing how little visibility dance has in our media is pathetic, whether on television or in the traditional media. You have to know that, in our country, dance developed thanks to television. In the 1950s and 1960s, dance c

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My colleague, Harold Rhéaume, and I represent the Regroupement québécois de la danse. Harold is its president. I am going to speak to you about the realities of the sector we represent. Essentially, it is made up of dance companies that focus on research a