Dublin Fringe Festival are offering an idea development bursary for future live performance for five artists to the tune of €2000 for each artist.
The Dream On bursary is open until this Thursday.
Details below or on the Fringe site.
2020 may have limited actions, but we must ensure that it doesn’t limit ambitions. Dublin Fringe Festival are supporting future planning that starts art first.
This bursary will support five individual artists with a €2000 bursary to develop ambitious new ideas for live performance. We want artists to lead the way with their bold ideas, their radical approaches, their plans for better practice.
The bursary will give the artists time to think about the performance they want to make and how they want to make it.
Criteria for selection:
- A contemporary, consequent, and singular idea for a future live performance
- Demonstration of how the project will be radical in form, thematic approach or audience engagement
- A clear vision for the development work you will undertake with this bursary
- Experience, skill and potential as an interdisciplinary, contemporary performance maker
- We particularly welcome applications from artists that defy the mainstream and those who are typically under-represented in the arts community
Who should apply?
- Individual artists whose work fuses more than one discipline (across comedy, live art, music, cabaret, digital art, circus, theatre and dance)
- Artists with an experimental practice and a fresh approach to performance medium and style
- Irish artists or artists based in Ireland
- Practicing artists, not currently in full-time education
This bursary is for the development of an idea for live performance, including areas such as:
- Writing, composing, creating, devising, etc.
- Research: content, collaborators, context, style references
- Planning & Scheduling
- Consideration of working practices and accessibility
- The bursary covers a fee for the artist’s time and the purchase of any essential research materials
What we’ll ask of bursary recipients:
- Dream big
- Meet with Dublin Fringe Festival’s Artistic team to talk about your brilliant idea
- Share a short written/ video reflection about your discoveries to share with the Dublin Fringe Festival community after this development period
To apply you will need:
- A development proposal to develop your idea for a brand-new piece of contemporary work (350 words max)
- A demonstration of how this idea is radical in form, thematic approach or audience engagement (350 words max)
- Timeline and scope of work that you’ll undertake with the bursary (300 words max)
- Artist Information including biog and summary of past work (300 words max)
To apply please fill out this form by 5pm on Thursday 19 November. Offers will be communicated by 4 December 2020.
