Image credit: In The Round By Yuxi Jiang Spring Scratch Night 2024 / Photo by Amy Sinead
Extended Deadline: Monday 16 September, 11:00
Are you an dance artist with a highly physical practice? Does your work aim to move its audiences? Do you have an idea in the works that you want to share with an audience? Then the Dance Base Scratch Night is for you!
The Dance Base Scratch Night is a unique platform in Edinburgh that brings live dance work to audiences and creates a supportive platform for dance and movement artists to try out ideas on the stage, experiment with an audience and share their work with their peers, the sector and the public.
Our next Scratch Night will take place on Sunday 27 October and we are now looking for artists to join us!
The selected artists will receive:
- A £200 performance fee per company member.
- Travel and accommodation expenses if based outside of Edinburgh.
- An additional budget to cover any access requirements as required to support your engagement in the week, including childcare costs.
- Studio space from 10:00 – 19:00 on Sunday 27 October at Dance Base for rehearsal ahead of the performance.
- Technical support from two theatre technicians during the day on Sunday 27 October to incorporate sound and lighting into your live work and a 90-minute technical rehearsal.
- Full documentation of the performance (photos/film).
- Access to a live audience of peers, industry members and the public and a feedback session after the performance structured as you wish
Who is it for?
This Dance Base Scratch Night is for artists who:
- See their work as based in dance, movement and choreography.
- See themselves as working at a professional level and are at any stage of their career.
- Have a work in progress of between 10 to 20 minutes in length
- Are predominantly based in Scotland
Please read the Application guidelines for further information.
How to apply
To apply applicants are invited to complete the Application Form available online here
The online application can be completed in a written or video/audio recording format. The form details word count and recording duration. Visual quality, camera and editing skills will not be taken into consideration for filmed submissions, and spelling and grammar will not form part of the consideration of written applications.
The form will ask:
- What is your performance idea? (max. 300 words / 2 mins)
- Aside from the opportunity to present your work live, is there anything in particular you are seeking to gain from participating in the Scratch night? (max. 100 words / 1 min)
- Provide us with one example of a question you would like to ask the audience about your work. What is it that you might want feedback on / that you want to test? (max. 50 words / 1 min)
- How many individuals are involved in the performance?
- Please also provide a link to more information about your practice and video footage of you performing, your work or a video of the existing piece you wish to submit.
Timeline:
Deadline for submissions: Monday 16 September, 11:00
Artists Informed by: Friday 20 September 2024, 17:00
Performance: Sunday 27 October 2024