Dancetheatre David Earle gave its first performance with the Penderecki String Quartet at the Elora Music Festival in July of 1997.  Since that time, DtDE has presented 30 new works, including commissions from the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Tactus, NUMUS (Kitchener-Waterloo), Waterloo Dance Frontier and the Guelph Chamber Choir.  Since moving to Guelph in 2001, DtDE has performed in a variety of local venues including the River Run Centre, Guelph Youth Music Centre, St. Jacobs Schoolhouse Theatre, and the University of Waterloo Humanities Theatre, in addition to locations in Toronto, Victoria, Vancouver, and open performances at Temple Studios in Guelph. 

In September 2002, DtDE performed a full evening of works by David Earle at the River Run Centre, in celebration of Mr. Earle’s selection as the 2001 recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline Lemieux Award for Distinction in Choreography.  The award was presented to Mr.Earle by the Mayor of Guelph, Karen Farbridge. 

Ongoing performance activities include the performance of new works in St. Jacobs, Guelph, Toronto and Vancouver, Summer Intensives in both Guelph and Montreal, and beginning in 2003, the remounting for Guelph and area of a major seasonal offering involving more than 50 performers, Court of Miracles.

In 2001, DtDE moved to a permanent home at Temple Studios, in downtown Guelph and began to offer community classes to professional dancers and to adult beginners.  Through Graham-based modern dance classes at all levels, DtDE is creating in Guelph the possibility for a professional level training program, as well as offering the community a centre for the study of a range of complimentary classes such as yoga, pilates, and martial arts, to open and strengthen both body and spirit.  Classes are led by extremely qualified instructors who are among the pioneers of modern dance in Canada. 

In summer 2002, the first Guelph Summer Intensive was offered, continuing a tradition of summer intensive professional training programs which have been offered in Victoria, British Columbia for 15 years.  The two-week Guelph Summer Intensive attracted 15 advanced dance students from 5 provinces.  The summer intensive, which was expanded to a three-week intensive in 2003 and to a five week, two city intensive in 2005, continues to provide advanced students of dance the opportunity for in-depth study in the dance language that David Earle has developed through his 40 years as a teacher and creator.