If dancing with an affiliated company, the company pays one percent of the dancer's annual salary, which is matched by the company if the company works twenty-six weeks or more. We also offer membership to independent dancers, artistic staff, and alumni. Grants for Skills courses, Retraining, and Stream I or Stream II subsistence while in full-time study are available. Grants are available to members who wish to continue to actively perform as well as those who are permanently retiring. The DTRC provides services to dancers in transition on an individual basis, offering a diverse range of services.
Members choose the services which they find most appropriate to their needs.
It is our experience that dancers want to be cared about, to know that someone is there who has been through it themselves, and this is what we aim to provide. These volunteers communicate with the office in Toronto on a regular basis. The DTRC is also a community liaison which ensures that the work we do is current and sensitive to the ever changing needs of Canada's dance community. We are represented on the Board of Directors of the Artists' Health Centre, and on the Advisory Board of Dance Ontario. In addition, we are members of the Canadian Conference of the Arts, the Canadian Association of Professional Dance Organizations and The Ontario Arts Network.