Hull Dance

Customer	Henri Duckworth	

			
               
	PID	

  	Detailed project description (200–400 words)	Hull Dance Programme 2017-18

Building Audiences for Dance
• a festival weekend of contemporary performance (dance) - 13/14 May 2017 TBC
o a new artistic collaboration with Yorkshire Dance
o a new initiative for 2017 leading to:
o long-term relationships with some artists involved
o laying foundations for a bi-annual festival

• programming performances in small scale venues and non-theatre venues. 
o consolidating existing relationships
o establishing new connections and programming through ‘Back to Ours’ initiative

• joint marketing for dance programmed by venues, independent of Hull Dance, including Hull 2017’s ‘Back to Ours’ initiative and other dance projects (LGBT50, Southpaw, etc), Freedom Festival, Hull Truck Theatre, 

• maximising marketing potential by working with 2017 team to 
 - build core marketing strategy for Hull Dance and project campaigns
- increase audiences for contemporary dance in Hull 
- reach, and explore how to continue to reach, cross-over dance audiences 
- collect and analyse data about audiences 

Hull Dance Prize
• building on the solid foundations from previous years, to firmly establish the Hull Dance Prize as a key annual event in contemporary dance calendar
• to raise the quality and number of entrants
• build networks with national dance organisations 
• artist call-out distributed beyond the Humber and Yorkshire region, nationally
• work with Hull 2017 team to seek sponsorship or private sector partner for 3-5 year relationship

Building Capacity within the Professional Dance Community
• developing a network of studio venues for Hull Dance Projects
o building relationships with identified studio venues including Hull College, Hull New Theatre and Holy Apostle’s Church, Thornton Estate
o hosting short-term residencies by companies to create and share work, links from  Contemporary Performance Festival, JCRP11 and identified emerging talent

• Local dancers co-curating the Contemporary Performance Festival
o 6 local dancers forming co-curating panel, identifying companies through 4 facilitated sessions including Jon Beney, Mark Pearce, The Non Applicables, Taylor Draper, Sarah Rowe, Campbell Edinborough, 
o Co-curating panel key hosts at the Festival

• co-commissioning with Freedom Festival

• strengthening graduate pathway programme

further establish Hull Dance Youth Company and strengthen partnerships with schools and colleges 
Laying the foundations to establish Hull Dance as an independently constituted organisation 
• creating strong brand awareness
• clarifying Hull Dance Staffing structure so that it fit for purpose as an independently constituted organisation 
• Investment in Hull Dance Team: 
General
• Via mentoring and support from Hull 2017
• working alongside other professionals (co-ordinator for Festival)
• knowledge sharing between team members, HCC staff and local, regional and national partners
• Keep up-to-date about contemporary dance by attending performances
Associate Producer 
• Creation of new two year part time role of Associate Producer
• monthly supervision and identification of and support for development needs
• shadowing Humber Mouth Literature Marketing Consultant
• individual mentor identified within Hull 2017 team
• broadening understanding of contemporary dance by attending performances	
 	Event Synopsis (c3 sentences of headline info, replaced by official copy)	Hull 2017 invests in contemporary dance professionals and audiences through strategic funding of Hull Dance.

Over 2017 and 2018, Hull Dance will build audiences for dance through programming and the launch of a new weekend festival in May (13/14 TBC), establish the Hull Dance Prize as a key annual event in the national contemporary dance calendar, build capacity within the professional dance community and lay the foundations to establish Hull Dance as an independent organisation.	
 	Project Plan	Complete	
 	RAMS	Pending	
 	Event Operational Safety Plan	N/A	
 	Budget	Complete	
 	Marketing & Comms Plan	Pending	
 	Greenlit?	N	
 	Milestones	N	
 	Change log	15/7/16 JC added Analysis/project code on SK advice
20/10/16 HD added full details	
 	Last updated (dd/mm/yyyy)	TBC	
 Dates	Project start date (dd/mm/yyyy)	01/01/2017	
 	Project Live date (dd/mm/yyyy)	TBC	
 	End of Live date (dd/mm/yyyy)	31/12/2018	
 	End of evaluation date (dd/mm/yyyy)	31/12/2017	
 Categories	Project Type	1: Hull 2017 Curated Programme	
 	Strand	Dance	
 	Season	1234: Thru-2017	
 	Primary art form	Dance	
 	Secondary art form	Music	
 	Tertiary art form	n/a	
 	Digital Requirements	Low	
 	Part of University VIK programme?	N	
 	Strategic partner?	Strategic partner funded	
 	Project complete?	N	
 Finance	Total project budget	£174,063.00	
 	Hull 2017 contribution	£45,000.00	
 	Income factored in		
 	Analysis/project code(s)	C110	
 	ACE - A4E	N	
 	ACE - HM Treasury for Turner	N	
 	Big Lottery Fund	N	
 	British Council	N	
 	Ellerman Foundation	N	
 	Esmee Fairburn Foundation	N	
 	H&ER Charitable Trust	N	
 	Hull CCG	N	
 	Spirit of 2012	N	
 	Are there any specific funder requirements for delivery?	Project is contingent upon a successful ACE G4A bid.	
 People	Project Lead	Henri Duckworth	
 	Producer	Ruth Drake	
 	Assistant Producer	Tara McKeown	
 	Production Manager	AsYet NotSelected	
 	Creatives & key people (temporary field)	Working in collaboration with Yorkshire Dance	
 Objectives	Target # audience	12000	
 	Forecast/actual # audience		
 	Hull residents	Y	
 	Regional	Y	
 	National	Y	
 	International	N	
 	Children (<16)	N	
 	Young people (16-25)	Y	
 	Families	N	
 	Older people (60+)	N	
 	Self-identify as disabled	N	
 	BME	N	
 	NEET	N	
 	Objective 1	Build new audiences for contemporary dance	
 	Met? 1	N	
 	Objective 2	Establish new contemporary dance weekend festival	
 	Met? 2	N	
 	Objective 3	raise profile and national  significance of Hull Dance Prize	
 	Met? 3	N	
 	Objective 4	build capacity within Hull professional dance community	
 	Met? 4	N	
 	Objective 5	lay foundations for Hull dance to become independent constituted organisation	
 	Met? 5	N	
 	# temporary jobs created (target) [employed by H2017, >=12m]	1	
 	# temporary jobs created (forecast/actual)		
 	# freelance contracts created (target) [self-employed, engaged directly]	1	
 	# freelance contracts created (forecast/actual)		
 	# participation opportunities (target)		
 	# participation opportunities (forecast/actual)		
 	...of which for school age (target)		
 	...of which for school age (forecast/actual)		
 	# commissions (target)		
 	# commissions (forecast/actual)		
 Performance, Residency & Legacy	Performance: Summary of events, including dates, times, venues, ticketing strategy (free/paid, (un)ticketed), age guidelines (free text OR UKFC categories) etc.	Festival of Contemporary Dance presented in Hull in association with Yorkshire Dance.

Series of contemporary dance performances through the year at different venues across Hull.

Presentation of Hull Dance Prize for choreography at Hull Truck in Oct/Nov 2017. 	
 	Residency: What opps will be created for our education programme? How will the project build new audiences through engagement? Note #s, types & duration of participation opps.	Collaboration with Youth Arts and City Arts to support young people dancing, including work wtih National Youth Dance Co. 

two Residencies with performing companies per year.	
 	Legacy: What is built into the core project that will ensure legacy?	Focus of Hull Dance management upon moving Hull Dance from a City Arts project into an independent organisation working and leading programming, artist development and audience development for dance in Hull.	
 Project Management	What is the model for delivering this project? eg we will employ a creative team, we will outsource to an agency, we are contributing funding but no other resource…	Grant funding to City Arts initiative - Hull Dance.  Hull Dance is led by dance specialist Keyna Paul. Full project management will be delivered by Hull Dance for City Arts.	
 	How will delivery partners be identified and procured? Refer to the procurement flowchart and note below the agreed process (A–G) for each contract.	n/a	
 	Who are the delivery partners? (Contact & organisation name, contract status for each)	Yorkshire Dance - regional agency for dance - will work in association with Hull Dance.	
 	Volunteer management: What is your expectation of volunteer requirements? (Numbers, roles, responsibilities, duration / period required)	Hull Dance is likely to request Hull 2017 volunteers for event support at presentation, festival weekend and Hull Dance prize.	

                                 
	
Contact Details

Duckworth, Henri		 henri.duckworth@hull2017.co.uk default