Eligibility
Established and emerging national and international dance companies are eligible to apply for Choo-San Goh Awards for Choreography on behalf of the choreographer. Applying dance companies are expected to meet the following criteria for consideration in receiving an Award:

• Be professionally recognized as dance companies of high caliber within the field of dance
• Demonstrate that they exist for the purpose of fostering dance through public performance.
• Provide evidence of their ability to stage original works of choreography for public performance by demonstrating adequate resources and a commitment to artistic excellence.
• Demonstrate choreographic ability through the presence of an individual or group of individuals whose principal function is the creation of dance works for the company or through a contract or other written agreement with a free-lance choreographer, and
• Be a non-profit organization.

Companies and choreographers awarded grants must wait two years before being eligible to reapply for new grants in the third year.

Companies that employ members of the Foundation's Board of Directors, it's artistic director or staff, on a full-time basis, are not eligible for awards.

Restrictions
Awards will be made for public performances of original works only. No awards will be made for workshop/studio productions or restagings.

The Foundation's policy is to fund the choreographer's total fee for those companies receiving awards. However, limited assets dictate that grants will be awarded up to $10,000 each. Dance companies are encouraged to seek other funding sources for non-choreographic production costs.

A company may submit an application for only one choreographer/choreographic work in a single year. Therefore, a company may not receive more than one award in a given year.

The first public performance of the proposed production must be between January 1 and December 31, 2010.

While the Foundation funds only the choreographic fee, total production costs and the company's record of public and private sector support must be submitted in order to be considered.

Criteria

The following criteria are used to select award recipients. A scoring system is used by members of the Awards Committee to ensure independent assessment of each application. Each application is then reviewed on its own merit by the full Awards Committee, which makes recommendations to the Board of Directors. Decisions of the Board are final. Applications are judged on:

1. Artistic Importance

• The focus of the project, its choreographic intent, and its importance to the choreographer's development at this time.
• The impact on the company's performing artists, its present repertoire, and the education and development of it's audiences.
• Exemplary artistic quality of the company, choreographer, collaborators and proposed project.
• Quality of production elements, including costuming, lighting music and casting.

2. Public Performance Capability

• The organizational and artistic strengths of the company.
• Evidence of the company's long-term commitment to the development of new work.
• The ability and commitment from the choreographer and the company to complete the proposed project.
• A reasonable schedule for producing the project.
• The potential for the dance work to be performed more than once, and to become a part of the company's permanent repertoire, particularly as evidenced in the company's letter of agreement with the artist.

3. Financial Feasibility

• The appropriateness of the schedule of expenses for the production.
• Evidence, as appropriate, of funding for costs beyond those covered by this award.

All applications must be received by July 30, 2009. Award recipients will be announced in December 2009.

To apply for an Award the applicant company must send a request for the guidelines and application to the Foundation. Only applications submitted on Foundation forms are accepted.