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News - Last updated on 14-05-2009

Yorkshire Dance awarded £35,000 to develop dance artists’ work & careers

Leeds-based Yorkshire Dance has received funding of £35,000 from Arts Council England, Yorkshire for an 18-month project to develop the work and careers of a selected group of dance artists.

The project is called LIFT, and will enable Yorkshire Dance to fund two Associated Artists and to bring together a group of 14 dance practitioners – known as The Fourteen – in a career mentoring programme.

The two Associated Artists will take up long-term creative residencies at Yorkshire Dance, funded by Yorkshire Dance to create new dance work, to explore methods of practice by working with new collaborators and mentors, and to develop their ability to stage work professionally. They will be selected on the basis of the originality of their ideas and a proven track record of choreographic ability.

The Fourteen will comprise dance artists with an innovative and rigorous approach to their work, who have developed their practice in a wide range of professional and community environments. Based at Yorkshire Dance’s building at Quarry Hill, Leeds, they will benefit from an extensive series of seminars from CIDA (Cultural Industries Development Agency) this autumn. This programme will equip them with skills including marketing, financial management and career planning alongside their artistic development. They will each be eligible for free short-term residencies in one of Yorkshire Dance’s studios to research, create and develop work.

Applications are invited now, with a closing deadline of Mon 29 Jun. The names of the new Yorkshire Dance Associated Artists and the members of The Fourteen will be announced in mid-July and the project will begin in September 2009.

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Yorkshire Dance is very grateful indeed to Arts Council England, Yorkshire, for this funding. THANKS!