Support for Creation -based Collaborations: Local, National and International (Pilot Program)
Deadlines
15 November 2007 and 1 May 2008
If either of these dates falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day. Your completed application and all support material must be postmarked on or before the deadline date.
The Canada Council will not accept applications postmarked after the deadline, incomplete applications, or those submitted by fax or email.
Program Description
This program provides project funding to presenters and producers to support creative collaborations and relationships among artists, presenters, producers and their communities. The objective of the program is to further vitalize the art form of dance by building strong relationships within the local, national and international dance milieu.
Any number of presenters and producers may work together on a project with the common goal of enhancing opportunities for artists and developing innovative ways of increasing public appreciation for Canadian dance. Projects may include local, national and/or international participants, but the applicant must be Canadian.
The Pilot Program of Support for Creation-based Collaborations has three components: Creative Residencies, Commissions/Co-productions and Strategic Initiatives.
The program aims to reach its objective by:
- increasing creation and visibility opportunities for professional Canadian dance artists and companies
- increasing the capacity of presenters and producers to engage, over extended periods of time, with local, national and international artists
- contributing to the establishment of long-term relationships among artists, presenters, producers and audiences, and
- improving the conditions for creating dance by allowing artists more time in a single community, which allows them to develop in-depth relationships within the community, and focus on their work or share the intent of their work with a larger community.
Examples of creative relationships are as follows:
- residency initiatives leading to the creation of new work or, in some instances, remounts
- extended production periods on stage or in the presentation space with time, space and technical support available during this process. If a presenter usually allows an artist two days in the theatre prior to opening night, then an extended time period might be two to three weeks in the theatre prior to opening night
- a Canadian presenter or producer collaborating with any number of Canadian and/or international presenters to commission (co-produce) a Canadian or international artist. The final work must be presented in Canada, and
- presenters or producers undertaking an exceptional project whose impact will have a lasting effect on a community larger than their own respective communities.
Creative Residencies
This component allows presenters or producers (if necessary, in agreement with another party who has the physical space) to invite an artist or company into residence. The residency will be for a pre-determined period of time, but must be at least one week in length.
The purpose of the residency must be to either complete a creative work or remount a work, and it can take place immediately prior to opening night or at an earlier date. A residency must eventually lead to the professional presentation of the final work, in Canada, by either the residency host or the collaborating Canadian presenter or producer.
Commissions/Co-productions
The Commissions/Co-productions component provides a direct contribution to the creating artist or company (local, national or international) to support the creation of a new work. This is a flat amount that does not include the presentation fee.
Applicants must submit a separate agreement for the presentation fee or a single agreement that clearly separates the commission fee and the performance fee.
Presenters and producers can commission or co-produce local, national or international artists but must have a confirmed presentation agreement to show the work in Canada. An international producer involved in commissioning a Canadian artist or company must commit to the presentation of that artist or company outside Canada. Ownership of the rights to the work must be detailed in the signed contract.
Strategic Initiatives
This program encourages presenters and producers to think in creative and innovative ways to develop important opportunities for dance artists and dance audiences. The Strategic Initiatives component is for projects that do not meet the eligibility requirements of the above components or any other program in the Dance Section.
Applicants must discuss their projects with the Dance Section Officer before submitting an application to this component.
Eligibility
All three program components are for collaborations among local, national and/or international presenters and producers, individual artists and companies. The applicant, however, must be a presenter or producer incorporated in Canada.
Applicants must:
- be directed by recognized professionals and/or community leaders and engage professional artists, mentors and/or elders
- operate on a seasonal basis or be attempting to operate on a continuous basis
- have a history of public presentation or producing dance. If the organization has less than a three-year history, the track record of the individual presenter or producer will be taken into consideration
- have established a working relationship with the artists involved in the project
- have an administrative infrastructure to support the project
- not be carrying an accumulated deficit that threatens the viability of their organization, and
- receive support from other sources, such as municipal, provincial or territorial, and/or private sources.
Presenters and producers can apply as a single entity or collectively to support a creative collaboration with artists or companies. This program encourages relationships with other presenters, both Canadian and international, to develop, create and extend the life of a dance work.
Where appropriate, presentation must be within 15 months of the creative collaboration.
Those who are not eligible to apply to this program should refer to the Canada Council’s website or the Calendar of Deadlines for information about other programs of support for dance.
This program is open to Aboriginal arts organizations and arts organizations from diverse cultural and regional communities of Canada.
Definitions of terms
The Canada Council defines presenters as incorporated individuals or organizations that select artists or groups of artists for programming purposes, assume all or part of the artistic and financial risk, and oversee all aspects of presenting the work to audiences. For this program, a presenter cannot be the choreographer or company presenting its own work.
Producers are incorporated entities that may not be presenters as defined above. They must pay fees to the artists and collaborate with presenters to ensure public presentation of the work. Producers must have a minimum of three years’ experience in producing artists. Although artists and companies may be considered producers for the sake of this program, these applicants cannot apply for funding to produce or co-produce their own work or the work of artists in their regular employment. They are eligible, however, if they are producing or co-producing the work of other artists or companies.
A public presentation can include a promotional or marketing campaign; technical support as required by artists or companies; and the appropriate staffing, management and administration of the project.
Grant Amount
This program will award a maximum of $30,000 per application at each deadline. Applicants can request funds from one, two or all three components of the program. Their total request, however, cannot exceed $30,000.
Eligible Expenses
Where this applies, cash and in-kind contributions from applicants and other contributing collaborators must be listed and assigned to specific expenses (on a separate page).
For the Creative Residencies and Commissions/Co-productions components, applicants must submit an operational budget for the coming year and must indicate where this project fits within the overall picture.
Creative Residencies
- Dancers’ rehearsal salaries and an animateur’s or facilitator’s honorarium, during the residency.
- Artists’ travel (national and/or international) and per diem costs. The presenter’s or producer’s local theatre and technical costs, during the residency (complete Appendix A1 in the application form).
- Where this applies, production costs associated with previews that are not normally covered by the presenter.
- The presenter’s costs of providing facilities and services to artists.
- A contribution to salary costs for the hours that personnel spend for the management of this project.
The successful applicant will receive one administrative honorarium of $1,000 to offset the time spent in securing partnerships.
Commissions/Co-productions
- The direct expense for commissioning or co-producing the creation of a new work. Applicants are expected to give the entire commissioning or co-production fee and related expenses directly to the artist (the grant provides an administrative honorarium for applicants).
- The presenter’s or producer’s travel costs, when the purpose of the travel is to secure engagements for artists or companies with other presenters or producers.
NOTE: A presenter cannot apply for commissioning or co-producing support from this program for a work that has already received support from the International Co-production for Dance (Pilot Program).
The successful applicant will receive one administrative honorarium of $1,000 to offset the time spent in securing co-commissioners.
Strategic Initiatives
Applicants must discuss eligible expenses for the Strategic Initiatives component with the Dance Section Officer before completing an application.
Ineligible Costs
The following are not eligible under any of the components of this program:
- This program will not cover transportation costs for artists invited to a festival. Festivals applying for a residency under this program can only include the accommodation and per diem expenses that fall outside the normal dates of the festival, (ie. the day before the first performance of the artist at the festival and the day after the last performance).
- Technical equipment purchases.
- General administrative overhead and salaries of presenters or producers.
- Costs associated with the presentation of the finished work (such as technical and promotional costs for the public presentation of the work before a paying public).
- Production costs associated with previews that are normally covered by the presenter.
- Royalties and rights,.
- Artistic costs normally supported through operating grants to dance company partners.
Forms
This application form consists of all documents below. These documents can be printed. The form cannot be filled out on-line.
Support for Creation Based Collaborations: Local, National and International (Pilot Program) (PDF Acrobat format).
Support for Creation Based Collaborations: Local, National and International (Pilot Program) Appendix A1 (Excel document)
Further Information
For further details or to obtain an application form, contact:
Robyn Campbell
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. 5501
TTY (TDD) machine, for hearing-impaired callers: 613-565-5194
Fax: 613-566-4409
October 2007