| Description | The Dance Department of the Arts Council of Great Britain made awards to major dance companies, smaller dance and mime companies, choreographers, and composers and designers working with dance or mime groups. The Arts Council Touring (1980) Autumn and Spring programme, included dance, drama and opera (eg, La Traviata, Carmen, Mozart's operas, and several Shakespeare's plays performed by London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Scottish Opera, London Festival Ballet, Opera 80, Welsh National Opera, Sadler's West Ballet, Ballet Rambert, English National Opera North). Other marteial contains information about events and workshops organised by the Arts Council, eg, Media relations training day, training day for dance companies' education officers, job vacancies (Black Dance Administration Scheme), dance trainee administration bursary (South Asian Dance), Dance for Camera Traineeship (commissioned by the Arts Council and BBC 2), Initiative to Increase the Employment of Disabled People in Arts, Performance Art Events June 1986 (montly listing and news-sheet of new work in performance art and related areas). |