Creation/Production in Dance: Multi-Year and Annual Funding
Deadline
15 November 2006
Program Description
The Creation/Production in Dance program provides multi-year and annual funding to professional, Canadian non-profit dance companies. The objective of the program is to support the creation production and revival of significant dance works.
These grants contribute to the cost of overall ongoing activities, or operations, of professional dance companies. These encompass research and creation of new work, remounts, purchase of repertoire, home market activities (self-presentations, school shows, lecture demonstrations, company classes, master classes, choreographic labs, workshops, presentations, etc.), and the administrative support required to sustain these activities.
Touring and international co-production activities are supported through other grant programs, but are reflected in this application. The professional activities of individual company members may be referenced in this application, but are not funded through this program. These activities may receive assistance through other programs of the Canada Council for the Arts
Eligibility
Applicants to the Creation/Production in Dance program must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible. They must:
- be incorporated as a non-profit organization
- have completed a minimum of five years of sustained activity, culminating in full-evening programs of the company’s work
- be directed by recognized professional artists and engage professional interpreters and other professional artists (the Canada Council for the Arts defines a professional artist as someone who has specialized training in the field (not necessarily in academic institutions), who is recognized as such by her or his peers, who has a history of public presentation or publication (not necessarily in Canada Council-sanctioned venues), and who is committed to devoting more time to artistic activity if financially feasible)
- operate on the basis of an annual season on a continuous basis
- have received within the past three years, project support for the production of dance works through the Dance Section’s national-level competitions
- have received regular project and/or operating funding from other public sector funders in the last three years, and
- have been assessed by the Dance Section on at least two occasions for two different full-evening programs in the last three years of sustained activity. For those applying for first-time funding through this program, both productions assessed must have received project support (as described above) through the Canada Council’s Dance Section.
Grant Amount
Annual grant: minimum of $50,000
Application Form
Please contact Dance section before applying.
This application form consists of all documents below. These documents can be printed. The form cannot be filled out on-line.
Further Information
Dance Section
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 and contact one of the following Dance Officers:
- Mark Shaub, 5506
- Jerry Longboat, ext. 5501
- Louise Gagné, ext. 4511
- Administrative Coordinator, ext. 4501
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: (613) 565-5194
August 2006