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Our mission

Danse Traditionnelle Québec brings together all individuals and organizations who contribute to the vitality of Québec’s traditional dance scene. DTQ assists, stimulates, trains and represents actors and actresses in the field with the perspective of enhancing and sustaining the practice.

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History

The Danse Traditionnelle Québec (DTQ) association results from the issue table on traditional dance that emerged from the initiative of the Conseil de la culture de Lanaudière (and with the support of the Conseil de la culture de Québec-Chaudière-Appalaches) in May 2004 and hosted by the Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant.

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After three years of reflection combined with efforts towards Québec’s traditional dance scene and development possibilities in this sector, the Danse Traditionnelle Québec association was officially founded in the summer of 2007. The foundation subscribes to the fulfillment of a Socio-economic portrait of teaching traditional dance in Québec (a study funded by the CRC de Lanaudière and directed by Josée Mayrand under the supervision of the issue table), and of a study regarding the growing demand in training conducted in March 2006 with the help of the Conseil Québécois des ressources humaines en culture.

Training Development

The results of this study enabled the development and the establishment of an ambitious training project realized as part of Emploi Québec’s multi-regional professional training stream since the fall of 2006.

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  • Winter 2024: The practice of the “câll” in Québec’s figure dances

  • Fall 2023: Staging Québec’s traditional dance

  • 2022-2023: Québec’s traditional figure dances: from popular practice to

  • contemporary evening dances

  • 2021-2022: Development strategies for traditional dance organizations

  • 2020-2021: A reflective practice of the gigue

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  • 2012-2013: Repertory and development techniques: figure dances from the Renaissance period to contemporary Québec

  • 2011-2012: Gigue and traditional percussions

  • 2010-2011: Choreographic creations and performing arts

  • 2009-2010: Québec’s traditional dance repertories: transversality and universality in the structures and shapes

  • 2008-2009: Traditional dance and its promotion

  • 2007-2008: History and ethnology of Québec’s traditional dance

  • 2006-2007: Didactics and pedagogy of teaching traditional dance

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Board of Directors

  • Yaëlle Azoulay (President)

  • Jonathan C.-Rousseau (Vice-President)

  • Ghislain Jutras (Treasurer)

  • Sébastien Chalumeau (Secretary)

  • Maude Filion (Administrator)

  • Martine Billette (Administrator)

  • Sabrina Beaulieu (Administrator)

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