The basic objective of DANs/cE KAPITAL is to promote a Canadian culture of dance within the Ottawa communities by facilitating intercultural dialogue, collaboration and mutual impacts on artistic creativity amongst diverse cultural traditions which have come together in this multicultural society. The festival's aim is to promote this objective by concentrating its efforts on the transcultural communication between dancers of diverse communities and their impact on Canadian society-the audience. DANs/cE KAPITAL is committed to present dancers of the highest standard of excellence within their matrix of sensibilities and norms of presentations. The audience, in turn, will be challenged to absorb wider and newer horizons of aesthetic concepts, artistic norms and cultural world views.

The project's objective then is to provide the audience with a colourful, culturally and historically rich and educationally relevant experience by promoting the professional and emergent artistic community's involvement in Ottawa's cultural activities through traditional and contemporary dances, based on various styles such as classical Indian, modern, flamenço, African, experimental and avant garde. In the process, Upasana also accomplishes the additional objective to create an opportunity for Ottawa artists to work closer together in a new spirit of cooperation, and showcase their work in an appropriate venue. All artists or companies presented in the Festival will perform new works based on their ownchoreography.

Based on the past eight successful years of Upasana's presentation of the DANs/cE KAPITAL-REVOLUTIONS IN MOVEMENT dance festival, Upasana plans on a similar artistic mix and style of presentation for the October 2008 festival. The dance festival-expanded to seven days this year for the third time, which includes daily evening and matinee performances as well as master classes and workshops will feature 18 professional and emergent artists and companies in day and evening performances, and 9 workshop and master classes from the Ottawa dance community with guest artists from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Brussels, Guinea and India.