Dance Organizations: Operating

Overview of the Dance Organizations: Operating program:

The Dance Organizations: Operating program aims to provide support to the ongoing operations of not-for-profit, professional dance organizations in Ontario. This caters dance organizations that create work by professional choreographers and those that present dance works created and produced by professional dance artists/companies

Eligibility criteria of the Dance Organizations: Operating program:

• Eligible applicants
• Dance companies that create and produce work by professional choreographers with professional dancers. The company must pay fees to dancers for rehearsals and performances.
• Dance presenters/festivals that present dance works created and produced by professional dance artists/companies. Presenters must hire professional dance artists and companies and pay a guaranteed fee for each presentation.
• Dance schools that train students for a professional career in dance through a multi-year dance instruction curriculum of no less than ten hours per week. Courses must be accessible to Ontarians through a competitive audition/admission process. The school must earn revenue in many ways, including student tuition fees.
• Other dance-centered organizations with a primary purpose to support professional dance artists, through administration, publicity and marketing, career and professional development, capacity building, and other services and/or programs that contribute to the development of Ontarios professional dance sector.
• Ontario-based, not-for-profit corporations or national not-for-profit corporations with the head office in Ontario
• Organizations must have:
  • At least $75,000 in total revenues for the last fiscal year, and in projected revenues for the current and requested years (for applicants not currently receiving funding from this program)
  • At least two years of sustained, regular, ongoing programming, as of the application date. If your organization does not meet this requirement, consider applying for project funding
  • A range of revenue sources
  • An active board of directors/governing body