Considerations

This list contains possible considerations for both artist and venue when programming or making work for these types of settings. It is not exhaustive but hopefully can aid in understanding what we have been thinking about. The lists have been split into pre-Covid considerations and Covid considerations but the preCovid considerations still apply in the current environment.

PRE-COVID CONSIDERATIONS

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS DUE TO COVID

• What the venue’s provision is in terms of set up

• Budgets/ the different economic models of dance and visual art (dance artists needing to be paid before the performance for rehearsals etc and visual artists being paid once an art object is bought)

• Crediting dance artists / choreographers for their work

• Museums and galleries need to safeguard objects in their collections

• Long working hours for dance artists if the work is durational to suit opening times/ footfall of the museum or gallery

• Noise levels affecting both dance artists’ work and/or venue workers

• Potentially little knowledge of dancers needs by staff outside the production team • Dancers’ need for dressing rooms

• Venue’s relationship with Artist - the difference between commissioning the work or receiving the work (e.g. how involved the venue is in the creation period)

• Programmers needing to or having pressure to programme multiple works at the same time due to the venue’s targets

• The ‘contracts’ that we enter into to establish audience/ performer relationships are different in a gallery or museum opposed to a theatre

• The venue could be a ‘loaded’ space

• What the venue’s organisational structures are

• Does the venue have limitations to the kind of work that can be programmed and why?

• Artists may not have the skills and/or resources to create digital work • Audiences’ access to the space / work