Dance Mapping - Arts Council England

The list of organisations in table 6 can be found in Appendix Six(a) with a brief description of
their work. Some of the organisations have been funded for more than 20 years and others
are new to the portfolio. Many have been reliant on Grants for the arts, an area of funding
which many of the companies have relied on for several years.
Large-scale Investment 2008/09 Investment 2009/10 Investment 2010/11 Total investment
companies (RFOs)
over 3 years
ENB London £6,537,950 £6,714,474 £6,895,765 £20,148,189
Birmingham Royal
Ballet West Mids
£7,777,163 £7,987,146 £8,202,799 £23,967,108
Northern Ballet
Yorkshire
£2,692,486 £2,765,183 £2,839,843 £8,297,512
Rambert London £2,119.300 £2,176,521 £2,235,287 £6,531,108
Sadler’s Wells £2,273,494 £2,375,916 £2,468,189 £7,117,599
Contemporary
Dance Trust
Total spend largescale
spend
Total spend on
RFOs
Revised RFO
spend less largescale
companies
£2,030,258 £2,085,075 £2,141,372 £6,256,705
£23,430,651 £24,104,315 £24,783,255 £72,318,221
£34,928,964 £37,623,391 £39,233,006 £111,785,361
£11,498313
£13,519076
£14,449751
£39,467,140
Table 7: Large-scale dance investment - 2008/9–2010/11 and total spend on agencies
venues and festivals and small- to middle-scale producing and touring companies
Source: Arts Council England dance department’s analysis
Table 7 (RFOs stands for ‘regularly funded organisations’) shows that the large-scale
companies that are regularly funded organisations, as well as touring and venues, take
around two-thirds of the regularly funded organisations funding. When removed from the
picture, we see the investment into agencies and the small and middle-scale touring portfolio.
This amounts to £39,467,140 over the three year period.
The majority of dance artists, choreographers and companies are based and work in London.
As can be seen from the table above, there are 23 regularly funded London-based dance
organisations. Yorkshire is next with 11 companies and the East region has three. Most
conservatoire dance training takes place in London, with only Northern School of
Contemporary Dance training contemporary dancers outside the capital. The conservatoire
schools included Central School of Ballet and Rambert, who train classical as well as
contemporary dancers. Ballet training has for example the Hammond school in Chester for
ballet and stage dance and Elmhurst School in Birmingham, outside London. This is one
factor affecting location, but work opportunities also encourage newly trained dancers to be
looking for work in the capital. The spread of higher education courses across England with
dance degrees is more widespread: see details in Part Five, The ecology of dance.
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