Choreographic Development Initiative – Outcome

With additional support from the Arts Council, Dance Ireland under its Choreographic Research and Services Programme 2007/2008, allocated €49,300 towards the development of choreographic practice. We received 12 proposals from 13 choreographers; 7 awards have been made as follows:

Cindy Cummings                        €12,000

Dylan Quinn                               €12,000

Rebecca Walter                         €12,000

Mairead Vaughan                      €6,000

Chantal McCormick                    €6,000

Inmaculada Moya Pavon            €1,000

Nathalie Grand                           €300  (Scholarship)

The assessment was based on the panel’s understanding of how proposals best fitted with the published aims and objectives of the pilot project, which simply is about providing choreographers with the means to concentrate on their choreographic process. Voting panel members included Morag Deyes OBE (AD, Dance Base Edinburgh); Catherine Nunes (former AD, IDFI, freelance dance consultant); Talal Al-Muhanna (Mentoring Development Programme Daghdha Dance Co, curator); Liz Roche (Chair Dance Ireland, choreographer, artistic director Rex Levitates); Fearghus O Conchúir (board member Dance Ireland, choreographer, AD Corp Feasa). 

Choreographers from across Ireland (professional members of Dance Ireland) working in any movement discipline were encouraged to apply for financial support to facilitate research and develop choreographic practice. These bursaries are ‘to buy time’ for practice research and development, over a six to nine month period, commencing from October onwards. This initiative will give choreographers the breathing space to explore new avenues of interest, and address self-identified areas of development, which cannot be addressed within their normal working process.

The Choreographic Development Initiative is a pilot scheme for Dance Ireland. It is a condition of support that successful choreographers work with us, by sharing their process, research findings, and work-in-progress.