SCUBA: National Touring Network for Dance

                          “Taking my work to an outside city proved to be one of the most informative

                            and altering experiences of my career.” – Allie Hankins, SCUBA 2012 Artist

CALL FOR ARTISTS: *

*SCUBA was suspended in FY15

We will keep you posted  of upcoming deadlines. if SCUBA returns....

SCUBA’14  DEADLINE CLOSED

All artists will receive an award of $4,500 to tour all four partner co-presenters, Velocity Dance Center (Seattle), ODC Theater (San Francisco), Philadelphia Dance Projects (Philadelphia) and the Ritz Theater (Minneapolis).   The SCUBA residency will vary in each city but will include performances on a shared program with all SCUBA artists. 

Please contact local presenters for RFP’s.

San Francisco: Christy Bolingbroke  christy@odctheater.org

Seattle:  Tonya Lockyer   tonya@velocitydancecenter.org

Minneapolis: Laurie Van Wieren, Curator

Philadelphia: Terry Fox  info@philadancprojects.org

Diving into touring…the SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance,

has successfully achieved its goal of touring regionally established, nationally emerging artists to and from the participating cities – Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. SCUBA strives to present these artists/tours through co-operative presenting and grassroots mobilization. It addresses the need for artists to experience a diverse range of venues (from studio black box to small to mid-sized dance houses) and to connect with an array of professional presenters and creative peers.

SCUBA is now approaching its 10th Anniversary year. It has served dozens of artists

and thousands of audience members in four cities. SCUBA has cultivated artists/groups

from “local” to national recognition of high artistic merit. It has it played a supportive part in the national dance eco-system, by not only assisting artists to be “tour-ready,” but to provide an exciting context for audiences to see the breadth of choreographic investigation underway around the country in relation to their own region.

Required Artists Attributes:

1.Choreographers/choreographic collaborations who have produced/presented choreography locally for several years, but have not yet moved into regular national touring.

2.Previous SCUBA recipients may not apply within a four-year period.

3.An applicant must have produced choreography while living in Philadelphia.

Artists selected to tour will receive the following:

1. Fee: An award of $4,500.*

2. Marketing /PR: The co-presenters will provide Marketing/PR for the artists. The performances will be marketed and promoted to the press, as well as in the co-presenters own publicity materials. You will be asked to provide materials for this publicity as well as for a printed program.

3. Technical Support: Tech production support will be provided for the performances, including  overall technical direction, and light and sound operators. Technical equipment as owned by the co-presenters will be provided. A reasonable attempt will be made to accommodate any special needs, subject to time and budget constraints and consistent with the evening’s format; however artists may be asked to bear some or all of the cost of unusual production elements they request. 

Please be aware that SCUBA is a low budget initiative and a shared evening format with limited tech support for the performances. You are encouraged to apply with material that is easily adapted to a new theater space, with minimal tech requirements, and suitable for a shared evening.

*Each city designs its SCUBA program differently. Some will provide housing, others won’t.  

There is no per diem. So artists should consider seriously the resources at hand for making   

this project work successfully for them.  Despite this limited support, all the artists have

enjoyed participating and gleaned much from SCUBA.  Putting their work before different audiences,

meeting artists from other cities and observing their creating and presenting “infrastructure”

has been of great value.

Selection Process and Criteria:

1.3 choreographers/choreographic collaborations will be selected by each local venue to be considered by the other SCUBA partner venues.

2. Each presenter has its own format for reviewing applications and videotapes to select the SCUBA roster.

3. Decisions will be based on the quality and innovation of the artist’s work and suitability to the SCUBA program, based on the work sample and as described in the application.

4.They shall not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, sexual preference or national origin. The review is open to all aesthetics presented, with a particular interest in contemporary and innovative approaches to any given form or style.

5.Final decisions about artists to participate in SCUBA 2014 by July 30, 2013.(CLOSED)