Dance Touring Grants
Deadlines
1 May and 15 November
For the 15 November 2006 deadline, funding support is exclusively for tours that begin on or after 15 November 2006 and that have not already been advertised in an advance subscription campaign for 2006–07 or 2007–08. Therefore, this deadline is appropriate for tours to non-subscription-based venues beginning no earlier than 15 November 2006 or for tours to subscription-based venues beginning 1 September 2008 (2008–09 season or later).
For the 1 May 2007 deadline, funding support is available for tours that have not already been advertised in an advance subscription campaign for the following season. Therefore, this deadline is appropriate for tours to non-subscription-based venues beginning on or after 1 May 2007 or for tours to subscription-based venues beginning 1 September 2008 (2008–09 season or later).
Program Description
Dance Touring Grants assist with specific costs incurred when:
- a Canadian artist or dance company tours in Canada; or
- a foreign artist or company tours in Canada at the invitation of a Canadian dance presenter, promoter or consortium.
The objectives are to:
- facilitate access to dance across Canada
- increase touring opportunities for dance artists and companies
- increase audience knowledge and appreciation of all dance forms
- enhance programming options for presenters, and
- extend the life of significant dance works through exposure to many audiences.
The program’s priorities for support are:
- a continuous tour of presentations or
co-presentations in at least three cities outside the performer’s or company’s home province/territory
- in the case of tours by foreign artists or companies, tours of no fewer than three presentations across Canada; and
- the Canada Council’s identified priority areas of Aboriginal art and artists, and cultural diversity.
Self-presentation is a lower priority. Applicants who include self-presentations on tour must provide an audience-development rationale.
Eligibility
Professional Canadian dance artists, groups, collectives, companies, presenters, promoters or dance presentation consortia may apply. An individual dance artist applying to the program must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Canadian citizens need not be residents of Canada when they apply.
International dance groups, collectives, companies or individual artists are eligible for touring assistance in Canada. However, international artists must have a Canadian agent or presenter apply on their behalf.
The Canada Council for the Arts recognizes a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions), who is recognized as such by his or her peers (artists working in the same artistic tradition), who is committed to devoting more time to the artistic activity if financially feasible, and who has a history of public presentation (not necessarily in Canada Council–sanctioned venues).
At least one performance must be confirmed for the application to be considered by the peer assessment committee.
Applicants for in-province/territory touring are eligible only if they have already applied for support from provincial/territorial and/or municipal sources.
Applicants may not reapply within a fiscal year for the same tour unless the first request was “Highly Recommended” by the peer assessment committee.
All Canada Council programs are accessible to Aboriginal artists or arts organizations and artists or arts organizations from diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
All dance forms of all world cultures are eligible for support.
Grant Amount
The grants contribute to direct touring costs: in-Canada travel, accommodation, per diem and transportation.
The program’s maximum daily contribution for combined accommodation and per diem is $100 per person per day.
Grants will not exceed 40 percent of a tour’s total expense.
Applicants may or may not be awarded the full amount requested, depending on the number of requests in the competition and the peer assessment committee’s evaluations.
Forms
Dance Touring Grants (PDF Acrobat format).
This form can only be printed and cannot be filled out on-line.
Dance Touring Budget Sheets pages 3-8c 3-8c (xls, 96KB)
Further Information
Mark Shaub
Dance Section Officer
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
Telephone: 1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or (613) 566-4414, ext. 5506
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: (613) 565-5194
Fax: (613) 566-4409
October 2006