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Production Project Grants in Dance

Deadline

15 March

Program Description

This program provides production project support to Canadian dance professionals (individuals), collectives and non-profit companies, including Aboriginal dance professionals, collectives and companies.

Professionals creating and working in all dance genres (for example, contemporary, classical, traditional, modern, folk and jazz) of all world cultures are eligible to apply for support. For a complete list of eligible dance genres and specializations, applicants should refer to Appendix A of the application form.

Program Objective

The Production Project Grants program aims to respond to the creative cycles of dance professionals and to bring high-quality dance works to audiences. The program has two components:

  • Short-Term Production Grants provide support for one project that will be fully developed and presented to a paying audience within one year.
  • Long-Term Production Grants provide support for one major project, which is defined as a full program of work or works that requires between two and four years to be fully developed and presented to a paying audience.
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Eligibility

Applicant Eligibility

General Eligibility

An individual applicant - whether an independent dance professional or a collective’s representative - must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. A dance company must be an incorporated Canadian non-profit organization. Canadian citizens living abroad are eligible to apply.

The core members of the collective or company must be dance professionals; they cannot be studying with a dance school.

Full-time undergraduate students enrolled at a dance academy, school, college or university are not eligible to apply.

Graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels are eligible to apply providing they can demonstrate they have sufficient time to carry out the proposed project. They must have maintained an active professional dance career for at least one year in addition to their advanced studies while in academic settings or as part of specialized training programs. The Canada Council considers advanced studies to be those beyond a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent.

Applicants who are applying for the first time and are unsure of their eligibility should submit a résumé, or a summary of their dance experience, and a one-page (maximum) project description to the Dance Section. This must be done at least one month before the deadline.

Eligibility for Short-Term Production Grants

These grants are available to emerging, mid-career or established artists, and to companies, collectives and organizations.

An individual applying to this component as a choreographer must meet the minimum requirements for either a dancer or a choreographer. Choreographers representing companies, collectives or organizations must meet the requirements for choreographers.

Eligibility for Long-Term Production Grants

These grants are available to mid-career or established artists, and to companies, collectives and organizations.

Applicants to this component must meet both of the following eligibility requirements. You must specify these in your application. They must have:

  • received, as an individual or artistic director of a professional dance company, in the past five years, a minimum of two grants from one or more of the following programs: Grants to Dance Professionals, Production Project Grants in Dance, International Co-production Program for Dance (no earlier that 2005), Dance Touring Grants, Creation/Production in Dance, or as it applies to the Aboriginal dance programs
  • produced, in the past five years, a minimum of two full-length public programs (for paying audiences) that involved professional, paid artists.

Project Eligibility

Eligibility for Short-Term and Long-Term Production Grants

The following activities are eligible for support:

  • the creation, production and presentation of dance works, including traditional forms,  dance for young audiences and dance that integrates new technologies
  • the production of new works, creations, or remounts of previous works
  • the commissioning of works from professional choreographers
  • collaborative productions that involve dance professionals, collectives and (or) companies
  • international collaborations and co-productions with foreign artists and (or) producers
  • pre-tour activities and pre-tour costs that are not supported by other programs of the Canada Council for the Arts.

The following are not eligible for support:

  • The production and dissemination of Canadian professional screen-based dance works (film or video). Applicants should refer instead to the Dance on Screen Production Fund (Pilot Program). For other dance video or film production projects, applicants may contact the Media Arts Section to obtain information on the Grants to Film and Video Artists or Grants to New Media and Audio Artists program.
  • Professional development, apprenticeship or mentorship projects. Applicants should investigate instead the Grants to Dance Professionals program.
  • General artistic or professional research ¾ applicants should refer to the Grants to Dance Professionals program.
  • Touring activities that are eligible for support under other Canada Council programs, such as the Dance Touring Grants or Audience and Market Development Travel Assistance program.
  • Projects already supported through other Canada Council programs.
  • Competitions and projects conceived for competitive purposes.
  • Any new application, if the applicant has any final reports due for previous Canada Council grants.
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Grant Amount

Short-Term Production Grants: A maximum of $30,000 is available.

Long-Term Production Grants: A maximum total amount of $100,000 is available over a two-, three- or four-year period. Successful applicants can distribute their grant in varying amounts over the desired period, but a maximum of 50 percent of the grant can be released for the first year of the project.

For both components, the peer assessment committee will not normally modify the grant amounts requested. However, limited funds are available for this program and a high number of applications may be received. The peer assessment committee may decide to award grants that are smaller than the amounts requested.

Grants are available in fixed amounts of $1,000. Applicants must round their budget request to the nearest thousand and must submit a balanced budget (revenues must equal expenses).

Projects must start after the application deadline date; the Canada Council will not provide retroactive funding.

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Application Form

Production Project Grants in Dance (PDF Acrobat format)
This form can be printed only and cannot be filled online.

OR

To apply for a grant online go to GO! Grants Online

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Further Information

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. 5257

TTY: 1-866-585-5559

January 2010