Open Call: Performing Arts for Children, Young People, and Adults (Denmark)

Purpose 

• The purpose of the programme is to promote performing arts of a high artistic quality in Denmark and Danish performing arts abroad. This includes:
  • performing arts activities and projects targeted at children, young people, and adults
  • promoting the development of new forms of performing arts and other experimental activities within the performing arts, including cross-disciplinary projects
  • ensuring geographical diversification
  • facilitating the encounter between Danish performing arts and the international performing arts scene through international activities, including co-productions, international guest performances and tours, and residencies
  • reproductions

Eligibility Criteria

• Smaller theatres, performing arts groups, independent performing artists and operators including their collaboration with other theatres and operators in the performing arts field.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Support cannot be granted for projects, which are carried out exclusively by the large institutional theatres. By large institutional theatres they mean The Royal Danish Theatre, the Danish regional theatres, the Jutland Opera, and the theatres in the Copenhagen theatre association may not apply.
• You cannot receive funding for:
  • activities initiated before the deadline
  • activities concerning only the start-up phase, preliminary studies, and preparations for upcoming project
  • educational purposes for individuals

Application Requirements

• In your application, the committee expects you to describe:
  • the primary idea and artistic vision
  • realization: work method/process
  • the group’s structure: participants in the project
  • presentation and relevance to the audience
  • information about target audience: children and young people (age groups), partly children and young people or adults
  • If you are applying for a grant to cover part of your own contribution for an EU-project you must ensure that it is clearly stated in your project description and in your budget.
• In the digital application form, you must:
  • provide a summary of what you apply for funding for
  • state whether you are applying for funding for the same project from another Danish Arts Foundation committee
  • mark information about target group: Children and young people, partly children and young people, or adults
  • mark choice of genre: Street theatre/site specific, choreographic/physical theatre, contemporary circus, object/animation, performance, text-based or cross-disciplinary
  • If you are applying for a grant for research, lab activities, performing arts development and genre development, you must tick off the relevant genre in the application form.
• You must attach the following:
  • A description of your project (max. 2 pages). You must attach the project description as one single document
  • Budget in PDF format. You must list all figures in DKK and remember to check that no pages are empty, when you export the document to PDF.
  • Use the mandatory budget template. The budget must give a true impression of the project’s overall finances.
  • When filling in the budget template, you must also state specific goals planned for your project, including international aspects, for example geographic spread, expected number of performances, expected audience and ticket figures, and/or other goals relevant for your project. If they ask you to report on your project, they will evaluate whether you have fulfilled the goals stated in your application
  • CV on participating artists: max. one page per person including a photo. All CV’s must be attached as one single document
  • In connection with specific international activities, for example a guest performance, you must attach documentation of the agreement with the foreign partner. This could be a contract, an invitation, an e-mail, etc.
• You may also attach:
  • a summary of or extract from a manuscript, if you apply for funding for new dramatic work (max. 2 pages).
  • a document with max. 3 links to photo/video documentation.

For more information, visit Danish Arts Foundation.