CFPs: Ontario Arts Council Dance Projects (Canada)

Categories

• The program has five categories:
  • Creation: to support artistic costs of choreography and development of new work. There must be some kind of showing (for example, in-studio or virtual, for invited peers, mentors or other guests) of the work or work-in-progress.
  • Production and presentation: to support artistic, production and presentation costs of live or virtual dance for a public. This includes co-productions, commissions, remounting, and tour preparation (including rehearsal costs).
  • Series and festivals: to support presentation costs of series and festivals that promote professional choreographers and dance companies.
  • Mentorship – Individuals: mentorship for Indigenous artists training in Indigenous dance practices, including powwow and customary dance (see definition), and for Deaf artists and artists with disabilities.
  • Training and community development – Ad hoc groups, collectives and organizations: training and community development initiatives, including but not limited to forums, workshops and master classes, equity and access initiatives, and other activities that benefit the professional dance community. Costs can include fees to participating artists.

Priorities

• Category-specific priorities are:
  • Creation; Production and presentation; and Series and festivals: projects that engage professional Ontario-based choreographers.
  • Series and festivals: projects where the applicant does not present their own dance works.
  • Training and community development – Ad hoc groups, collectives and organizations: training and community development projects that support dance practices where training opportunities in Ontario are limited as compared to other practices.

Funding Information

• Creation: maximum $5,000.
• Production and presentation: maximum $20,000.
• Series and festivals: maximum $15,000.
• Mentorship – Individuals: maximum $2,500.
• Training and community development – Ad hoc groups, collectives and organizations: maximum $7,500.

Eligibility Criteria

• Professional dance artists who are Ontario residents.
• Ontario-based ad hoc groups and collectives of dance artists or arts professionals with expertise in dance.
• Incorporated not-for-profit dance companies, dance series, dance festivals and other dance organizations with a head office in Ontario.
• Other not-for-profit organizations or ad hoc groups and collectives such as non-arts organizations or organizations and ad hoc groups or collectives working in another arts discipline supported by OAC:
  • You must demonstrate that you have engaged the appropriate professional dance expertise to carry out the project, for example, the expertise of dance professionals directly involved in the project, and/or the expertise of an advisory committee that includes dance professionals.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Organizations that receive a grant in the Dance Organizations: Operating program, except for dance companies that receive an operating grant of $30,000 or under, and are led by Indigenous artists, artists of colour, Deaf artists or artists with disabilities.
• Organizations that receive an operating grant in other OAC programs, with the exception of organizations mandated to serve one or more of the OAC priority groups.
• Choreographers who direct organizations that receive OAC operating funding
• A member of an ad hoc group or collective that applies for the same activity at the same deadline in this program.
• Dance studios, dance schools or other training organizations.
• Dance students or students enrolled full-time at an educational institution.
• For-profit organizations.
• Colleges, universities and municipalities.
• School boards.
• Elementary or secondary public or private schools.
• Schools run by First Nations or Indigenous Education Authorities.

For more information, visit Ontario Arts Council.