Creation/Production in Dance: Multi-Year and Annual Funding
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
15 November 2011 (Annual Funding)
If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day. Your completed application and all required support material must be postmarked on or before the deadline.
Please refer to the Program Guidelines for detailed information.
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.
Purpose of Grant
These grants contribute to the cost of overall ongoing activities 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.
Eligibility
Applicants (companies) 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 performers 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 (not necessarily in Canada Council-funded events or venues), and who is committed to devoting more time to artistic activity if financially feasible;
- operate on the basis of a season or have a sustained activity level;
- have self-generated revenues and an appropriate company infrastructure;
- have received from the Canada Council within the past four years two project grants under the Creation/Production in Dance program or another form of project support for the production of dance works through the Dance Section’s national-level competitions (e.g., a project for a short- or long-term dance production project, funding for an international co-production, funding under the Capacity Building Program for Culturally Diverse Arts Organizations);
- have received, as a company and not as an individual artist, regular (at least three grants in the past five years) project funding for a sustained volume of activity and/or operating funding from other public sector funders (provincial or municipal). Applicants not having received such funding (which does not include individual travel or creation grants) shall not be eligible; and
- have been assessed in Canada by the Dance Section on at least two occasions for two different full-evening programs in the last four years of sustained activity. Those applying for first-time funding through this program must have received project support (as described above) for both of the works assessed in Canada under a program of the Canada Council’s Dance Section.
Grant Amount
The minimum annual or multi-year grant from the Creation/Production in Dance program is $50,000.
CADAC Financial and Statistical Reporting
The Canada Council for the Arts is collecting financial and statistical information through a national online database called CADAC (Canadian Arts Data/Données sur les arts au Canada). This system enables arts organizations applying for operating funding from public funders that are members of CADAC to submit their financial and statistical information in the same format.
The following are member partners: the Alberta Foundation for the Arts; the British Columbia Arts Council; the Canada Council for the Arts; the City of Vancouver; the New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport; the Manitoba Arts Council; the Ontario Arts Council; the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Toronto Arts Council.
Further Information
Ellen Busby or Louise Gagné
Program Officers
Dance Section
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P. O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414 , ext. 5506 (Ellen Busby), ext.4511 (Louise Gagné)
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
July 2011