Jasad Dance Projects (Jasad) is a Canadian not-for-profit dance company dedicated to the promotion and presentation of contemporary dance and performance; offering training, workshops and community programs; and developing collaborations and exchanges at local, national and international levels, with a focus on artists who identify as North African, Arab or Middle Eastern. Jasad Dance Projects seeks to explore new ways of facilitating exchanges and collapsing boundaries between so-called ‘professional’ artists and ‘community’ artists. We do so through creating links between artistic and cultural communities that are geographically distant, through artistic collaborations that challenge the recognized, traditional Western colonial approaches of art making.