Danish Arts Foundation Grant Program – Denmark

Deadline: 16-Jan-23

The Danish Arts Foundation is offering grants for professional performing arts projects, including international activities.

In the Danish Arts Foundation, they aim to support creative thinking and innovative ideas. However, this sort of artistic work does not necessarily fit into the categories they have used to classify art forms and their committees. Nevertheless, artistic work that embraces different art forms is as important as more traditional art.

Therefore, the Danish Art Foundation’s committees welcome all applications that border on or go beyond traditional art forms. If a committee does not have sufficient knowledge of a particular art form represented in your application, it will seek help from another relevant committee within the Danish Arts Foundation.

Purpose

The purpose of the programme is to promote performing arts of a high artistic quality in Denmark and Danish performing arts abroad. This includes:
- promoting the development of new forms of performing arts and other experimental activities within the performing arts, including:
  - performing arts activities and projects targeted at children, young people, and adults
  - reproductions where an agreement with a venue can be documented
  - cross-disciplinary projects
  - ensuring geographical diversification
  - facilitating the encounter between Danish performing arts and the international performing arts scene through international activities, including co-productions, international guest performances and tours, and residencies
About funding for innovation projects:
- The committee considers innovation as being research, lab work, and innovation within performing arts and genre, which benefits the performing arts scene.

Funding Information

You may apply for a maximum of DKK 150,000 for innovation projects.
If you receive a grant of:
- DKK 100,000 or less, they pay the grant as closely as possible to the start date you have stated in your application. You should therefore make sure that the start date you enter matches the date of the first expenses for your project
- more than DKK 100,000 with a project period longer than six months, they pay the grant in instalments

Ineligible Projects

activities initiated before the deadline
activities concerning only the start-up phase, preliminary studies, and preparations for upcoming project
educational purposes for individuals

Eligibility Criteria

Professionals organising or working with performing arts activities.
Students at the Danish National School of Performing Arts or a similar foreign educational institution.
For stand-alone international activities, the committee grants funding for:
- accommodation costs and domestic transport in relation to international guest performances in Denmark
- primarily travel and transport costs in relation to international touring activities
- travel and accommodation costs of up to DKK 15,000 in relation to networking activites
- international guests at Danish performances, however max. DKK 2,000 per guest
- residencies longer than three weeks may include, apart from travel and accommodation, per diems and fees of up to DKK 10,000 per month, if the applicant does not receive funding for operations