We are Community Formed and Focused

MNIDF benefits the dancers and community members of the Twin Cities and greater MN through high  quality-dance education and arts accessibility. With MX as the guest country, this year's festival will  specifically reach the Latinx community in addition to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, low-income, and disabled community  members reflecting the diverse fabric of MN. 

Opportunities like this are limited in our region and this festival  creates a unique space to engage with dance for emerging artists, professional dancers, and community members. Our workshop classes serve students age 18+ from all backgrounds and levels of dance experience.  Our audiences include families and community members of all ages.  

MNIDF directly benefits MN audiences and the broader dance community, emerging, mid-career and  professional artists of all backgrounds. Since this Twin Cities is a multicultural center, this festival celebrates  the diversity of dance in all its forms. By highlighting a different cultural community each year, this annual  festival spotlights the dance styles of different cultural communities that all dancers may not be able to  experience otherwise.