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The Alberta Dance Educators' Association hosts, organizes and produces the Alberta Dance Festival. This event attracts over 4,000 students of dance to the Myer Horowitz Theatre on the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton in May. Dancers vie for medals and scholarships in categories of classical/character ballet, tap, jazz national and musical theatre.

The Alberta Dance Festival has grown to be the largest dance festival in Western Canada and perhaps all of Canada. Adjudicators are drawn from Canadian and American dance masters, teachers or performers. Highlights of the two week event are "Production Night", where hundreds of dancers participate.

The Alberta Dance Festival has been held annually since 1976. It is one of the largest festivals, attracting more than 4,000 dancers from across Western Canada.

The Festival provides an opportunity for dancers to perform in a non-competitive atmosphere. Medals are awarded using a standard marking system and over $20,000 in cash scholarships are given away each year. The festival is open to participants ages six years and up in the disciplines of Tap, Musical Theater, Stage/Novelty, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Lyrical, Ballet, Modern & contemporary.

Alberta Dance Festival 2010

This year’s Festival will take place at the Myer Horowitz Theater, located on the University of Alberta Campus in Edmonton, Alberta. The dates for the Festival are May 8 – May 14, 2010. Admission to the Festival is free of charge for all events.

The entry deadline for the Festival is February 1, 2010 and a rough draft of the program will be mailed to everyone after March 1, 2010. For further information please contact Shari VanderWoude at shariv@telus.net or email A.D.E.A. at adea@telusplanet.net.