Deadline: 22-Jun-23
The Arts Council is pleased to announce the Dance Bursary Award to support professional artists at any stage of their career to develop their art practice.
It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
Objectives
- The award emphasises the value and benefit to an artist’s development derived from an extended process of engagement with their practice. The award therefore provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage with their arts practice.
Priorities
- Priorities of the award:
- The Dance Bursary Award is intended to enable the applicant artist to do one or more of the following:
- Spend focused time on working at their practice.
- Spend time researching/thinking about/developing a new idea for future dissemination.
- Spend time developing their technical skills in a particular area.
- Spend time working with a mentor or collaborator(s) to develop an idea or to assist in developing or upskilling within a particular area of their practice or an area related to their practice.
- Spend time developing an idea in collaboration with a potential production partner(s)
- Undertake a short period of training by way of master classes or other professional training opportunities (whether national or international).
- Purchase a limited amount of equipment and materials to assist with the development of their practice (Note: this can be no more than 15% of the value of the overall request for support)
- Spend time undertaking a combination of the above activities.
- Strategic priorities:
- The Arts Council has identified the following as strategic priorities for support through this award:
- Applicants who demonstrate a clear articulation of artistic aims and rationale for undertaking a period of creative reflection.
- Applications from emerging dance artists who wish to develop their arts practice through a period of structured mentoring.
- Applications that strengthen the practice and development of dance artists involved in formal residencies in conjunction with national and/or international dance organizations.
- Applications that support the ongoing sustainability of dance activities in a variety of regional contexts.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount that may be awarded to each successful applicant is €20,000.
- The minimum that can be applied for is €5,000.
Potential proposals could be those that:
- Are from professional dance artists who wish to develop their arts practice through a period of self-directed research.
- Are from emerging dance artists who wish to develop their arts practice through a structured mentoring relationship.
- Are from professional dance artists who wish to develop their arts practice through formal residencies in conjunction with national and/or international dance organisations.
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to professional artists working in all genres and at all stages in their professional careers. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the Arts Council would need to be satisfied that the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
- Be professional practising artists – although they might not earn income continuously or exclusively from their arts practice, applicants must identify themselves and be recognised by their peers as professional practising artists.
Ineligible
People who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses).
- Individuals seeking support towards fees for postgraduate (including unaccredited)/higher education or study.
- Individuals seeking support towards work undertaken as part of a formal course of study.
- Individuals seeking support towards the costs of undertaking an internship.
- They cannot accept applications from those employed or contracted on a fulltime basis by an arts organisation funded through Arts Council programmes or through direct state subsidy or by a commercial arts entity.
- Aosdána members in receipt of acnuas.
For more information, visit Arts Council.
