The Vancouver International Dance Festival was launched in 2000 with the objective of putting Vancouver on the international map of dance. Now in its 23rd year, the VIDF has presented 321 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.