Feasibility Report and Business Plan for the Establishment of a New Full-time Dance Company

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There is a requirement for advisory services to develop a feasibility report and business plan that will help to inform the establishment of a new full-time dance company in Ireland, as recommended by the Arts Council’s Dance Policy 2022 - Advancing dance. The resulting findings from this feasibility report will play a key role in guiding the Arts Council’s planned Call-Out to lead on the company’s set-up and implementation, which will be issued in 2023. The feasibility report aims to identify potential models for the new company’s financial, operational, and human resources structures. The research is expected to be conducted through engagement and consultation with the existing Arts Council-funded dance sector, including the Strategically Funded organisations, Arts Grant Funded organisations, and individually-funded artists, as well as other key stakeholders nationally and internationally. This research will take into consideration key corporate priorities of Making Great Art Work and other policies, namely: Paying the Artist; Equality, Human Rights and Diversity; and complement other policy areas such as Young People, Children, and Education, the Spatial policy, The digital policy, and International policy