Tipperary Dance collaborates with a number of organisations in several network initiatives that develop infrastructure for the arts regionally and throughout Ireland

SPLASH, international alliances

SPLASH encompasses Tipperary Dance’s international alliances, a number of fluid bilateral partnerships with friend organisations in Germany, Canary Islands, Catalunya, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and the US. They enable Tipperary Dance to support a flow of international exchanges that offer access to residencies, performances and laboratories. This instrument for internationalisation is essential nowadays to increase the capacity of artists to reflect, create and disseminate, and to build a community where they can grow a sense of peer support.

Partnerships rotate dynamically and have included: Tanztendenz (Munich), Trois C-L (Luxembourg), Le Grand Studio (Brussels), Tenerife LAV, Teatro Victoria (Tenerife), La Caldera (Barcelona), Compagnie Marie Lenfant (Le Mans), Culture Mill (Saxapahaw), South Tipperary Arts Centre (Clonmel), The Source Arts Centre (Thurles).

Tipperary Arts Hub

The Tipperary Arts Hub initiative acknowledges the quality and breadth of arts events & practice delivered by the partner organisations and festivals in County Tipperary. Tipperary Arts Hub is dedicated to cultivate an environment where the Arts can thrive for the benefit of local communities, artists, cultural producers, and visitors. The Hub aims to broaden visibility and access, and foster collaborative practice among the partners. See the Tipperary Arts Hub statement

Partners: Clonmel Junction Arts Festival, Tipperary Dance, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Finding a Voice Festival.

NDRP – National Dance Residency Partnership

The National Dance Residency partnership provides a networked support to choreographers in the production of new dance work. By coming together, the partners acknowledge that our collective infrastructure and resources can go further and encourage more ambition in the dance sector. Through this award, it is our intention to open up the model of making dance work in Ireland by de-centralising opportunities throughout the country, whilst building networked production models supported by a strong partnership infrastructure.

Partners: Dance Ireland, Tipperary Dance, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Dance Limerick, Galway Dance.

RTN – Regional Touring Network

The Regional Touring Network initiative increases the capacity of the partner venues and festivals to stage world class choreographic works, by collaborating on the organisation of coordinated tours.

Partners: Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Tipperary Dance, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Dance Limerick.