Deadline: 23-Mar-23
The Arts Council is now accepting nominations for its Dance Project Award to support ambitious, high-quality, professional dance initiatives that specifically deliver a presentation to, or an engagement with, an audience or public.
The focus of the award is on enabling the production of technically excellent and ambitious dance projects, to attract and develop audiences for professional dance, and to offer high-quality employment opportunities to freelance artists.
Strands
- Strand 1: The objective of Strand 1 is to support high-quality, ambitious, smaller-scale dance projects. The emphases of this award is on presenting performances/collaborations and/or partnerships, and developing the capacity of the artist and public engagement. Priority will be given to proposals that:
- Demonstrate ambitious, high-quality, stand-alone initiatives that specifically deliver a presentation to, or an engagement with, an audience or public
- Are led by an emerging artist demonstrating strong artistic expression and with potential to further develop their practice through the realisation of new work
- Demonstrate ambition and excellence in the quality of mentorship and/or collaboration proposed
- Seek to present new work in an innovative and/or experimental context
- Can demonstrate their feasibility by offering realistic income projections and evidence of financial and/or in-kind supports from other sources
- Priority will be given to projects that clearly demonstrate their commitment to the two main policy areas defined in Making Great Art Work – namely, the supporting of artists to make excellent work and commitment to public engagement.
- Strand 2: The objective of Strand 2 is to enable the presentation by established artists and/or producing entities with a demonstrable track record in the production of dance for audiences. The focus of the award is on enabling the production of technically excellent and ambitious dance, to attract and develop audiences for professional dance, and to offer employment opportunities to freelance dance artists. Priority will be given to proposals that:
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- Demonstrate ambitious, high-quality, stand-alone initiatives that specifically deliver a presentation to, or an engagement with, an audience or public
- Reflect a strong relationship and/or level of investment between the applicant and project partner(s), and lead to high-quality production values for the completed work
- Are produced and presented in conjunction with networks or consortia of festivals and/arts centres
- Create opportunities to extend the life of the work by securing a broad range of performance platforms within the finite parameters of the project
- Priority will be given to projects that clearly demonstrate their commitment to the two main policy areas defined in Making Great Art Work – namely, the supporting of artists to make excellent work and commitment to public engagement.
Award Information
- Strand 1: Up to €50,000
- Strand 2: Up to €100,000
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to professional artists1 and organisations working in dance. 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 applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application how the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland, and the Arts Council must be satisfied with same.
For more information, visit Arts Council.