Grants to support Performing Artists and Operators in Denmark

Danish Arts Foundation is Denmark’s largest arts foundation. They work to spread the arts to a wide audience all over Denmark, to promote Danish art internationally, and to pave the way for talented artists. They support creative thinking and innovative ideas by funding more than 6,000 artists and art projects every year.

Through more than 60 different funding programmes, they fund the production and promotion of both visual arts, film, literature, music, performing arts, architecture, crafts, and design – and all that transcends the borders of these art forms. And as a foreign artist, you may apply for funding for your artwork or project through their international funding programmes.

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 residencie
  • reproductions.
• If you are planning on applying for project funding from the European Commission, e.g. from Creative Europe, you can apply for support from this funding programme to cover part of your own contribution to the project budget.

Funding Information

• DKK 100,000 or less, they pay the grant as closely as possible to the start date you have stated in your application. You should therefore make sure that the start date you enter matches the date of the first expenses for your project
• more than DKK 100,000 with a project period longer than six months, they pay the grant in instalments.

Eligible Projects

• In your application, the committee expects you to describe:
  • the primary idea and artistic vision
  • realisation – 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.

Who can apply?

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

For more information, visit Danish Arts Foundation.