Danish Arts Foundation announces Grants for Performing Arts for Children, Young People and Adults (Denmark)

Eligible Activities

• 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

Ineligible Activities

• 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.

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 are eligible to apply.

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.

Assessment Criteria

• In the assessment of artistic quality, the Committee for Performing Arts Project Funding places emphasis on supporting performing arts with:
  • courage and willingness to follow new paths in terms of form, content or formats
  • a clear artistic idea as well as the ability to realize it
  • a motivation of the significance or societal relevance of the project
  • reflections on the audience’s experience of and relationship with the work.

Application Requirements

• You must attach the following:
  • A description of your project (max. 2 pages and for operations 10 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.
  • 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.
• 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.