Take Art joined forces with NRFT, The Place, and China Plate in 2015 to deliver the Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI). This innovative project, funded by Arts Council England, is helping to increase the quality, quantity and diversity of dance promoted by Rural Touring schemes all over the country. So far the scheme has worked with 40 companies, promoting 140 shows to just under 13,000 audience members.
Since 2018, the RTDI partners have consulted widely with colleagues across the sector – including promoters, scheme managers, artists and producers – to develop a plan for the future of RTDI. We are hugely grateful to all who have taken part in this process and given generously of their time and enthusiasm.
We are currently fundraising for three more years of the project which responds to the ideas we have gathered and the developments the sector wants to see, with touring beginning in …