The Opportunity

What we can offer:

Creative business advice and management

Producing and business advice from Spin Arts. Services include:

• Artist development – coaching about career goals and ambitions
• Fundraising – identifying sources of funding and supplying successful examples of applications
• Distribution – advice on tour feasibility
• Project Management – supplying contract and project planner templates
• Financial Management – supplying budget and cash flow templates
• Marketing – Advice and promotion via Spin Arts Management, including use of social media sites, and supplying marketing pack examples
• Evaluation – discussion and help in shaping evaluation frameworks and providing report examples.

Rehearsal space

• 10 days of free rehearsal space at NSCD (at times to be pre-agreed around the School Schedule)
• Access to Meeting rooms at NSCD (to be arranged as above)

Production Support

• Access to NSCD’s Riley Theatre – an opportunity to present new work or work-in-progress
• Artistic Mentoring, Technical and Marketing support at Riley Theatre, by NSCD staff

Professional development

• A bursary of £3,000 to support theatre trips, promotional material, professional development and artistic mentoring.
• Networking and shadowing opportunities

In return the artist(s) will be asked to:

• Act as an advocate for the CATAPULT programme, NSCD and Spin Arts
• Attend training events, conferences or performances on their behalf
• Share their practice or learning with the local community or local professional community
• Discuss and write a project agreement, outlining aims & objectives prior to being awarded a £3,000 bursary
• Present new work or work-in-progress a minimum of once during the 12 month programme
• Recipients are required to write a final evaluation report, reflecting on achievements and challenges

HOW TO APPLY

Artists are required to submit the following by Sunday 8th September (noon) to catapult@nscd.ac.uk

1. Appropriate contact details (If you are applying as a collective please also specify a main contact person)
2. A brief biography (No more than one side of A4) detailing where you have trained, to what level, a description of the creative team who will undertake the programme– who you are and how you will work together
3. An artistic statement (No more than one side of A4) including:
   a. an outline of key artistic projects to date
   b. details of a new artistic project to be undertaken during the programme
   c. predicted timeline of when you would hope to realise the project
4. A rationale for how this programme will benefit you, why it is important to your artistic and career development as well as examples of how you have previously demonstrated being pro-active, determined, self-motivated and committed to making dance that is of relevance to society today (No more than one side of A4)
5. Contact details for a referee who has witnessed your artistic work in a professional capacity
6. Up to two clips of your artistic work, supplied via web URL, accompanied by a brief paragraph contextualising the work (No more than 150 words per clip)

If you have any questions please contact us at catapult@nscd.ac.uk