About

The Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) is a non-profit, artist-run organization dedicated to supporting and furthering the art of culturally diverse contemporary dance.

The VIDF was launched in 2000 to put Vancouver on the international dance map. Now in its 24th year, the VIDF has presented 330 dance artists/companies to more than 100,000 people. We celebrate and focus on the diversity of contemporary dance expression, its individuality, and its astonishing capacity for touching one’s heart and soul. Our mission is to build audiences and appreciation for equity-seeking contemporary dance artists and marginalized contemporary dance practices through programming a spectrum of kinetically exciting work that broadens definitions of the form.