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Dance Presentation Program: Support to Presenters

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The Canada Council for the Arts is committed to equity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from diverse Aboriginal, cultural and regional communities, including people with disabilities.

Deadline

1 October

If this date date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.

Please refer to the Program Guidelines for detailed information.

Program Description

The Dance Presentation Program: Support to Presenters program has six components: Foreign Artists’ Tours, Commissions/Co-productions, Creative Residencies, Visiting Dance Professionals, Choreographic Workshops/Labs and Strategic Collaborations.

The program offers support to Canadian presenters of dance. Grants are intended to:

  • foster dance programming that demonstrates elements of innovation and risk
  • extend, deepen and enrich existing relationships and cultivate new partnerships among local, national, and international artists and presenters
  • increase creation, performance and visibility opportunities for professional dance artists and companies
  • provide enhanced creative and professional development opportunities and working conditions for Canadian dancers and choreographers
  • increase the quality of dance presentation in Canada, build presentation capacity and strengthen the network of Canadian presenters of dance
  • strengthen and deepen the relationships between Canadian presenters and the local dance communities they serve
  • provide Canadian audiences with enhanced opportunities to view a diversity of dance forms and increase audience appreciation for the art of dance.

Eligibility of Applicant

To be eligible to apply, your organization must be a Canadian dance presenter. For this program, the Dance Section defines dance presenters as incorporated organizations that:

  • select artists or groups of artists for programming purposes
  • assume all or part of the financial risk, and
  • oversee all aspects of presenting works to audiences.

In addition to meeting the above definition of a dance presenter, your organization must:

  • be a non-profit organization and be incorporated in Canada
  • be directed by dance professionals and (or) community leaders
  • have as its mission the presentation of works by professional artists
  • have a history of public presentation or production of dance (if your organization has less than a three-year history, the track record of the artistic director/programmer will be taken into consideration)
  • operate on a seasonal basis or be attempting to operate on a continuous basis
  • pay guaranteed fees to professional artists for public performances
  • have an appropriate administrative infrastructure to support the project(s), and
  • receive support from sources other than the Canada Council, such as other levels of government and (or) private sources.

Grant Amount

  • Component I: Foreign Artists’ Tours
    The maximum grant available is $50,000.
  • Component II: Commissions/Co-productions
    The maximum grant available is $20,000.
  • Component III: Creative Residencies
    The maximum grant available is $30,000.
  • Component IV: Visiting Dance Professionals
    The maximum grant available is $5,000.
  • Component V: Choreographic Workshops/Labs:
    The maximum grant available is $15,000.
  • Component VI: Strategic Collaborations
    The maximum grant available is $30,000.

Further Information

Rochelle Hum
Program Officer
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, ext. 4501 

TTY: 1-866-585-5559

Fax: 613-566-4409

July 2012