Dance Ireland Residencies
Dance Ireland Residency is a key means of ensuring new dance work is made and dance artists have a chance of maintaining a studio practice.
All Dance Ireland professional members, whether working as independents, companies, collectives and/or ad hoc ensembles are eligible to apply for a Dance Ireland Residency.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. As ever we remain sensitive to the needs of dance artists and aim to encourage all Dance Ireland members to avail of a Dance Ireland Residency. At a time of diminishing resources, this is a proactive means of facilitating dance makers:
- For those with funding/other supports we will partner you in order to maximise your resource by offering some week(s) free. This can also be used as leverage to enhance and further resource your project;
- Many regionally based artists/companies would like the opportunity to be in residence in DanceHouse. A Dance Ireland Residency creates an opportunity for these artists/companies to share their work and process with the wider dance community;
- For independent/non-funded artists, we aim to additionally support with a small fund (subject to availability) or supplement the Dance Ireland Residency in some other way.
The length of the residency will be dictated by need. In order to accommodate as many proposals as realistically possible, studio space will be capped to a max of 4 weeks. However, in exceptional cases and if resources allow, we may be in a position to extend. In return, Dance Ireland Residency recipients agree to contribute to our professional training programme, show work (New Movements), and/or participate in a Dance Talks event. The type of engagement will be agreed between Dance Ireland and the artist(s).
All those interested in applying should contact Siân Cunningham by submitting a short written project proposal and outline of preferred dates. To better understand how Dance Ireland can support you, we will meet with each artist before any final offer is made.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Telephone: 01 855 8800