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Project Grant - Dance and Circus

The Project Grant for Dance and Circus is designed to support projects that promote artistic development for professional dancers, choreographers, and circus artists. The grant supports projects with clearly formulated goals and defined start and end dates. Applications can be for creating new works, experimenting with new working methods, or developing new ideas. The grant covers costs directly related to the project, such as salaries for participants, materials, premises rental, or travel expenses. Grant recipients are selected based on the quality of artistic activities and the applicant's financial need. The program aims to distribute grants to artists in different parts of Sweden and across a variety of artistic expressions. The grant must be requisitioned by October 1st of the award year and requires a report within one month of the project's completion date.

International exchanges and travel grants - Dance and Circus

The Swedish Arts Grants Committee provides grants for international exchanges and travel to support dancers, choreographers, and circus artists' opportunities to create, develop and nurture contacts abroad. This funding includes two main types: international exchanges and travels abroad, and international exchanges in Sweden. For travel abroad, grants can support guest performances, tours, residencies, work stays, workshops, active participation in events, or self-initiated travel for professional development such as research, courses, festivals, or meetings with collaborators. For exchanges in Sweden, artists can apply to invite foreign artists to Sweden for collaborations, workshops or seminars that strengthen artistic development and international contacts. The program is designed for artist-initiated exchanges rather than institutional programming. Applications are accepted year-round with decisions made quarterly, and grants can be awarded retroactively if applied for before the exchange takes place.

Working grants and long-term grants - Dance and Circus

A working grant gives dancers, choreographers, and circus artists the opportunity to pursue and deepen their artistic practice. The Swedish Arts Grants Committee offers working grants covering periods of one, two, five or ten years. One-year working grants are typically awarded, but two- and five-year working grants are also available. Ten-year long-term grants can be awarded to major artists who have been practicing for a long time. The grant provides financial support to professional artists in the field of dance and circus who are residents in Sweden or primarily practice their art there. Recipients are selected based on artistic quality and financial need, with consideration given to distributing grants across different parts of the country and various artistic expressions.