Dance Touring Grants - National
Deadlines
15 November and 1 May
For the 15 November 2007 deadline, funding support is exclusively for tours that begin on or after 15 November 2007 and that have not already been advertised in an advance subscription campaign for 2007-08. Therefore, this deadline is appropriate for tours to non-subscription-based venues beginning no earlier than 15 November 2007 or for tours to subscription-based venues beginning 1 September 2008 (2008-09 season or later).
For the 1 May 2008 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 2008 or for tours to subscription-based venues beginning 1 September 2009 (2009-10 season or later).
If either date 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. You will not be contacted if your application is incomplete.
Program Description
Dance Touring Grants - National assist with specific costs incurred when a Canadian artist or dance company tours in Canada. 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 are to support:
- a continuous tour of presentations or co-presentations in at least three cities outside the performer’s or company’s home province/territory, 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. run-outs, or tours of fewer than three cities, are not a priority and require a strong market development rationale.
Eligibility
Professional Canadian dance artists, groups, collectives, companies, promoters or dance presentation consortia may apply.
Individual dance artists applying to the program must be a Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Canadian citizens need not be residents of Canada when they apply.
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. For information on how to apply, please refer to the program Dance Presenter Support: Foreign Artists Tours.
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 peer assessment committee to consider the application.
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 peer assessment committee ranked the first request “Highly Recommended”.
All dance forms of all world cultures are eligible for support.
General project restrictions:
- Tours by non-professional or student ensembles are not eligible
- Tours of the Nutcracker are not eligible.
- Touring expenses related to engagements at the National Arts Centre (NAC).
Grant Amount
Grants will not exceed 40 percent of a tour’s total expense.
The program’s daily contribution for combined accommodation and per diem is $125.00 per person per day.
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 evaluation.
Retroactive funding is not available.
Forms
Dance Touring Grants - National (PDF Acrobat format).
This form can only be printed and cannot be filled out on-line.
Dance Touring Grants National - Excel document
Further Information
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