Next year's Canada Dance Festival suspended due to funding shortfall

The Canada Dance Festival will not happen in Ottawa in 2018 because “a series of grants did not come through,” the festival said in a media release Wednesday.
The event, a spring fixture in Ottawa since 1987, is co-produced by the National Arts Centre. The news release says organizers will “explore alternate funding options” to attempt a return after next year.
“The decision to suspend the 2018 edition was not an easy one,” said Denis Walz, who chairs the fest