About Dance Partner Projects
Dance Partner Projects is open to artists who live or create work in Yorkshire or the North of England. 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.
The 3 artists or companies selected for Dance Partner Projects will benefit from:
- £3,000 seed funding to be used as match for a funding application or to cover a research residency
- Up to 3 weeks of research time in our studio
- 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 our annual No Dress Code scratch night.
- The opportunity to show work within our Encounters Festival programme, where thematically appropriate and dependent on timing.
What we are looking for
We’re passionate about supporting dance artists who ask questions of themselves, their work and of the world. We help artists to develop the right contexts for their work, be that theatres, outdoor or other non-theatre contexts.
We aim to add significant value to your proposed project, therefore we are looking for project proposals that align with one or more of Yorkshire Dance’s programme strands:
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Work for or with early years (0-5 years)
- Work which is co-created with intergenerational groups of people
- Work exploring themes of age and ageing
- Work developed by or with members of the LGBTQIA+ community
Yorkshire Dance believes that the climate crisis is one of the major issues facing our world and society at the current time. Therefore, we are particularly interested in projects proposals that have a low environment impact and/or aim to instigate positive environmental action.
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