Deadline: 17 March 2025
The Yorkshire Dance is seeking applications for its Dance Partner Projects from dance artists or companies based in the North (priority is given to artists based in Yorkshire) to take part in their Dance Partner Projects 2025-26.
The programme aims to provide dance artists/companies at different career stages with an opportunity to research and develop a new or early-stage artistic project.
Categories
- Projects for or with children and young people.
- Projects involving people of different age groups working together.
- Projects about age and getting older.
- Projects about LGBTQ+ experiences.
- Projects about climate change and looking after the environment
Benefits
- The 3 artists or companies selected for Dance Partner Projects will benefit from:
- £.
- Support from Yorkshire Dance’s Artist Development team. For example to support project development, producing, fundraising, connecting with specific participants or audiences, dramaturgy etc.
- The potential opportunity to present work-in-progress at the annual No Dress Code scratch night in November each year.
- The opportunity to show work within the Encounters Festival programme, where thematically appropriate and dependent on timing.
- Dance artists with a learning disability and/or autism:
- An additional £1000 to support access costs
- Support to create a plan with longer, slower processes for making work where needed.
- Support to identify access needs and create an access rider if required.
- Connecting into a network of other artists with a learning disability or autism in the North East and the North West
Eligibility Criteria
- Artist who live and make dance work in the north of England
- Artist who have a new idea for a dance project
- Artist s can apply as an individual or as part of a company
Selection Criteria
- Proposals are selected by a panel with artist representation through an open call process which takes into account:
- The originality & strength of the artistic idea
- Your track record so far and development aims
- How well your work connects with Yorkshire Dance’s programme strands outlined above
- Where you are based (this opportunity is only open to dance artists/companies based in the North. They prioritise applications from artists based in Yorkshire.)
For more information, visit Yorkshire Dance.
