[Reader-list] Apply for IFA's New Performance Grants 2011-12

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New       Performance
      
IFA’s       New Performance programme supports reflective performance practices that       extend beyond prevailing idioms and forms of performance and/or create new       modes of presentation. Performing arts groups and individuals working in       or across music, dance, theatre and puppetry can apply keeping the broad       thrust areas in mind. The programme is also open to light or set       designers, puppeteers, sound artists and writers working in the area of       performance.
      
Pre-production:       This       programme supports performing artists to germinate and nurture fresh ideas       and reflect on the immediate context of their practice. This may include       researching towards a performance script and/or collaborative or       improvisatory work towards creating a text or other resources and       references for the proposed performance.
      
Performance:       Risk-taking       and experimental performances that tackle unexplored themes or critically       engages with changing contexts of performance will be supported. These       productions could introduce fresh content, investigate unexplored but       meaningful themes, or straddle different genres in the performing arts.       These are only examples, however, and do not exhaust the possibilities       offered by this programme.
      
Dissemination:       IFA       grantees can apply for follow-up grants that will enable a wider public to       critically engage with their IFA-supported work and the larger issues it       throws up. This may include disseminating knowledge acquired and       expertise gained with the grant in imaginative and innovative       ways.
      
Residencies/Workshops:       Performance       residencies and workshops are ideal environments for questioning and       reflecting on contemporary performance practices. Innovatively modeled       artist residencies and workshops that nurture emerging performing artists,       encourage collaboration, and support dialogue with a wider field of       practice may       be considered under the programme.       Workshops       that focus on imparting new idioms and facilitating experimentation       may       be considered under the programme.       We       are particularly interested in supporting residencies and workshops hosted       by emerging organisations in the early stages of institutional building.       
      
 
      
Public       Platforms:       Public platforms like conferences and seminars that bring together diverse       stakeholders in the field of performance to discuss newly emerging and       unconventional practices may be considered under the programme. Also, we       encourage performing communities to engage in initiatives towards       building a       network of mutually supportive practitioners in the field. Initiatives       that look to encourage dialogue and collaboration between performing       artists working in different languages and regions may be considered       under       the programme. These       are only examples, however, and do not exhaust the possibilities offered       under this category.
      
You       are welcome to discuss your ideas and develop your proposal through       dialogue and interaction with IFA staff. To apply, please send us a short       note describing 1) your existing practice and your concerns and interests       as a practioner and, 2) the nature of work for which you are seeking       funding and how it addresses the programme. 
      
A       budget should not exceed Rs 1,50,000 for pre-production work, Rs 3,00,000       for developing a production, and Rs 6,00,000 for a residency. The budget       for seminars, conferences, network development and workshops may be       developed in consultation with programme staff.
      
APPLICATION
      
Applications       under this programme can be submitted for consideration at any time. You       may write your proposal in any Indian language. Please ensure that we       receive a draft proposal three months prior to your need for funds to       support the project. You may  email your queries on any matter       pertaining to this programme to ashutoshpotdar at indiaifa.org  or write to us at the following       address:
      
Programme       Executive New Performance, India Foundation for the Arts, 'Apurva', Ground       Floor, No 259, 4th Cross, Raj Mahal Vilas 2nd Stage, 2nd Block,       Bangalore-560 094. Phone: 080-2341 4681 / 82
      
You       can expect to receive a reply from us within ten days, indicating whether       your proposal is being considered for support.
      
ELIGIBILITY
      
You       are eligible to apply if you are an Indian national, a registered       non-profit Indian organisation, or have been resident in India for at       least five years. Your collaborators, if any, should also fall into one of       the above categories.
      
Translations       of this circular are available in other Indian languages on request and       can also be downloaded from www.indiaifa.org