Performing Arts: International Activities in Denmark

They achieve this by supporting internationalization such as:

• International guest performances touring and site specific performances, where an existing concept is adapted to the given context
• Networking and research aimed at long-term international collaborations and co-productions, including participation in workshops abroad as a speaker and the invitation of guests for performances in Denmark
• International residencies

Funding Information

• You may apply for a maximum of DKK 75,000 from this program.

Ineligible Activities

• You cannot receive funding for the following purposes:
  • Activities initiated ahead of the deadline
  • Educational purposes for individuals

Eligibility Criteria

• Smaller theatres, performing arts groups, independent performaing artists and operators organising or working with performing arts activities.

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.

Evaluation Criteria

• In the assessment of artictic quality, The Committee for Performing Arts Project Funding places emphasis on supporting performing arts with:
  • Courage and willingsness 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
• Furthermore, the committee emphasizes:
  • Collaborations between different organizations/institutions – preferably as co-productions with the independent performing arts scene – aimed at:
    • Exploring the boundaries of the performings arts
    • Meeting new audience groups
    • Making the best possible use of artistic and financial resources
    • That the project lives longer, for example through national and international touring activity as well as reruns, devolopment and the formation of networks
    • Choices in relation to dissemination and the promotion of the project to a wide audience
• Specifically concerning international activities, the committee emphasizes:
  • International guest performances and touring activities that involve several performances and other related activities (e.g. networking, workshops/master classes, research etc.)
  • Activities with a verified mutual interest regarding resources and interests and future collaborations
  • Activities where an exchange of experience with the Danish performing arts scene is taken into account

Application Requirements

• 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
  • The following information must be entered in the application form:
  • A short project description, including the primary idea and artistic vision (max 2400 characters).
• Please specify:
  • Whether you are applying for funding for the same project from another Danish Arts Foundation committee
  • If your target group is children and young people
  • Your choice of genre: Street theatre/site specific, choreographic/physical theatre, contemporary circus, object/animation, performance, text-based or cross-disciplinary
  • The date/period of the project’s period of expenses must be clearly stated

For more information, visit Danish Arts Foundation.