Are you making work in Yorkshire? Yorkshire Dance are seeking Dance Partner Projects for 2025-26

Yorkshire Dance are seeking applications from artists based in Yorkshire for their Dance Partner Projects programme 2025-26.

About Dance Partner Projects

Dance Partner Projects is open to dance artists or companies who are based in the North (priority is given to artists based in Yorkshire). 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 2025-26 will benefit from:

• - £3,000 commission
• - Up to 3 weeks of research time in Yorkshire Dance's studios.
• - 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 annual No Dress Code scratch night in November each year.
• - The opportunity to show work within Yorkshire Dance's Festival programme.

What they are looking for

Yorkshire Dance are 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. With the aim to add significant value to your proposed project, Yorkshire Dance are looking for project proposals that align with one or more of their programme strands:

• - 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 LGBTQ+ community Yorkshire Dance believes that the climate crisis is one of the major issues facing our world and society at the current time.
• Therefore, they are particularly interested in projects proposals that have a low environment impact and/or aim to instigate positive environmental action.

Supporting access for dance artists with a learning disability and/or autism

Through their ongoing partnership with Tin Arts, Yorkshire Dance are committed to supporting one artist with a learning disability and/or autism through this programme. In addition to the support outlined above, this artist/company will benefit from:

• - An additional £1000 to support access costs
• - Support to create a plan with longer, slower processes for making work where needed.
• - Support to identify access needs and create an access rider if required.
• - Connecting into a network of other artists with a learning disability or autism in the North East and the North West An Easy Read version of the Guidance is available on Yorkshire Dance's website.

How to apply

Please complete and submit the form on Yorkshire Dance's website by 10.00am, 17 March 2025: https://yorkshiredance.com/opportunity/dance-partner-projects-2025-26/ 

Selected artists will be notified by the end of March 2025.

Image of 2024-25 Dance Partners (left to right): Kayleigh Price © Daniel Phung, Dancer Michael Marquez © Boneshaker Photography and Alethia Antonia © Sean Miller.