Apply to show your work at No Dress Code | Scratch Night
Apply to show your work at No Dress Code Scratch Night on 21 Nov 2025
Application Deadline: Monday 23 June 2025, 11:00am
About No Dress Code
No Dress Code is our annual informal scratch night offering local artists the opportunity to test work-in-progress in front of a live audience. No Dress Code 2025 takes place at Yorkshire Dance on Friday 21 November in the evening. The event normally features 3 or 4 works-in-progress.
After the performances we display your questions and invite the audience to provide written feedback and share their insights. There are also plenty of opportunities to discuss your work in person with local artists and audiences throughout the evening.
Each dance artist selected to perform receives a fee of £135 and studio space during the week of No Dress Code (if required and available).
We are looking for:
- Works-in-progress. i.e. New work in early phase of research and development.
- Performance, film or installation work created for a live audience.
- Work suitable to programme in a studio or performance space.
- Short pieces (5-15 minutes duration), with little or no previous audience exposure. Or an excerpt from a longer work still in development.
- Work with minimal technical requirements due to quick turnarounds between performances.
- Work with minimal set-up of props/set/equipment.
- Works created by artists or companies based in the North of England.
Selection Process:
We only consider proposals from artists who are not in full-time education and work in the North of England.
Our selection process considers the strength of the artistic idea, our budget and the technical and logistical feasibility of programming the work within No Dress Code.
We aim to inform successful applicants by Tuesday 1 July 2025 allowing time for selected applicants to include No Dress Code as a public testing event within funding applications.
Supporting access for dance artists with a learning disability and/or autism:
We encourage dance artists with a learning disability and/or autism to apply for No Dress Code. Download an Easy Read version of the call out and application questions below. We encourage you to submit an access rider if you have one.
Click here for an Easy Read version of the No Dress Code Call Out
Learn more about the support we offer for artists with access needs.
How to Apply:
To apply, complete the online application form at the bottom of this page by Monday 23 June 2025, 11:00am.
Or send a video (5 mins max) answering the questions in the application form. Please submit video applications via WeTransfer to tammytsang@yorkshiredance.com along with a link to footage of the work you wish to present at No Dress Code (give access to tammytsang@yorkshiredance.com and joaomaio@yorkshiredance.com). If relevant, please outline which section you wish to be considered.
Queries
If you have any questions or would like support with the application process please contact Creative Projects Assistant, Tammy Tsang at tammytsang@yorkshiredance.com or 0113 243 8765.
Image: We Are The World by Excessive Human Collective at No Dress Code, Nov 2024 (c) David Lindsay