| Destination | Year | Recipient | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arctic Circle, Svalbard | 2017/2018 | Bethan | Peters | currently employed by TrinityLABAN as lead Tutor for the Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance, travelled to Svalbard and the Arctic Circle to undertake an ecological Choreographic research residency which will focus on the relationship between the human body and the evolving Arctic landscape. |
| Austria, Tyrol | 2005/2006 | Amanda | Weaver | working with Random Dance Company travelled to the Austrian Tyrol to attend a one-month Yoga Teacher Training course with the aim of teaching Yoga alongside a contemporary class to dancers |
| Austria, Vienna | 2006/2007 | Navala | Chaudhari | a young dancer with the Akram Khan Dance Company travelled to Vienna, Austria, to participate in a five-week intensive summer residency as part of the Impulstanz festival which offers a multi-national training. |
| Austria, Vienna | 2015/2016 | Catherine | Dulin | a freelance choreographer and actress from London, will travel to Vienna to conduct in-depth research as part of her PhD studies around the evolution of the Waltz, accessing resources available only in Vienna. |
| Austria, Vienna | 2006/2007 | Saju | Hari | freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher from London travelled Vienna, Austria, to attend a five-week intensive contemporary dance residency, danceWEB 2006, as part of a personal development programme. |
| Austria, Vienna | 2013/2014 | Frances | Clarke | a 51 year-old senior lecturer from Birmingham, will travel to Vienna to attend the “International Symposium on Performance Science” in order to develop her work as a practitioner and researcher in dance science and her understanding of psychological techniques |
| Austria, Vienna | 2013/2014 | Janine | Harrington | a 28 year-old freelance choreographer and dancer from London, will travel to Vienna to participate in the “ImPulse Tanz Festival workshops and Performance programme”. She aims to immerse herself in the working methods of several international artists |
| Bulgaria, Sophia | 2006/2007 | Karen | Michaelsen | dance teacher and arts co-ordinator from York travelled to Sophia, Bulgaria, to attend the Ritual Dance Seminar and Tour and, in the company of local experts, to study ritual dance in traditional village contexts |
| Croatia, Zagreb | 2009/2010 | Karolina | Bieszczad-Roley | a 29 year old Polish dancer photographer with a training in Butoh living in London travelled to travel to Zagreb to attend Performance Studies International Conference and present a 20 minute paper on photographing Butoh dance, and meet other researchers. |
| Cyprus, Limmasol | 2018/2019 | Louisa Borg-Constanzi | Potts | is the Learning and Participation (Dance) Programme manager at TrinityLABAN Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She will travel to Limassol, Cyprus to take part in an international collaboration to research, develop and produce a cross-arts experimental production which has been in process since 2017. |
| England | 2004/2005 | Lucy | Wallis | a 27-year-old from Kent travelled throughout England in order to research the way in which English folk dance has evolved and has been adapted, distorted and re-worked since the advent of the post-modern era |
| England, Charmouth | 2015/2016 | Satya | Dunning | a dance artist from Glasgow, will travel to Charmouth, England, to undertake the Walk of Life course led by Helen Poyner in May 2015, as part of her professional development around developing her own system of somatic movement training in Scotland |
| England, Coventry | 2011/2012 | Siobhan | O’Neill | a 46 year-old dancer/choreographer living in London travelled to Coventry to undertake the second year of Skinner Releasing Technique Teacher Training |
| England, Derby | 2008/2009 | Tim | Clarke | 50 year-old artist currently living in Leicester made twelve trips to Derby to visit Derby Dance Centre to draw a movement and dance group. |
| England, Kent and Oxfordshire | 2012/2013 | Helen | Venn | a 33 year-old freelance community dance practitioner from Braunton, Devon, will travel to Bromley, Kent, and Banbury, Oxfordshire to undertake work placements with two of the UK’s leading dance companies for people with learning disabilites to develop her skills in this field. |
| England, London | 2012/2013 | Fiona | Wright | a 45 year-old freelance choreographer, dancer and teacher from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, will make six visits to London to undertake Feldenkrais Method Training to gain a teaching qualification. The scholarship is for £492. |
| Europe, Hamburg, Lisbon, London, Antwerp, Hamburg | 2009/2010 | Saffinez | Setohy | a 26 year old British dancer and choreographer living in London travelled to Hamburg, Lisbon, and Antwerp to participate in the European exchange/professional development programme ‘Dance Beyond Borders’ |
| Europe, Portugal, Lisbon;Holland, Antwerp; England, London | 2009/2010 | Rachel | Birch-Lawson | a 23 year old British dancer and choreographer living in London travelled to Lisbon, Antwerp, and Hamburg to participate in ‘Dance Beyond Borders’, a transcultural dance education project involving a series of residencies. |
| France, Burgundy | 2016/2017 | Natalia | Barua | is from London. She is Programme Co-ordinator for East London Dance and Lead Dance Practitioner at Diverse Dance Studios. She travelled to France to attend and participate in the 2016 International Screendance Conference and workshops held at the International Dance Festival of Burgundy. |
| France, Lyon | 2006/2007 | Rohanna | Halls | performer and teacher working as a resident artist with the Devon Arts in Schools Initiative travelled to the Centre National de la Danse in Lyon, France, to take part in a two-week intensive workshop with Yuval Pick |
| France, Marseille | 2014/2015 | Lucille | Teppa | a 27 year-old performer, choreographer and translator from London, will travel to Marseille, France, to undertake a two-week residency with free studio space to research movement material for innovative choreography. The scholarship is for £120. |
| Germany, Braunschweig | 2002/2003 | Robert | Lessels | a full-time dance instructor, performer and choreographer from Cambridge travelled to Braunschweig in Germany to attend an international B-Boy (Break dancing) dance championship with opportunities to attend seminars, displays and exchange information |
| Germany, Braunschweig | 2002/2003 | Robert | Lessels | a full-time dance instructor, performer and choreographer from Cambridge travelled to Braunschweig in Germany to attend an international B-Boy (Break dancing) dance championship with opportunities to attend seminars, displays and exchange information |
| Germany, Berlin | 2014/2015 | Jack | Wignall | a 22 year-old apprentice dancer with Skanes Dansteater in Sweden, from Northwich, Cheshire, will travel to Germany, staying near Berlin to visit the artists’ retreat of Penderosato take part in a 30-day extensive course with David Zambrano to study techniques of Flying-low and Passing-through. The scholarship is for £150. |
| Germany, Berlin | 2019/2020 | Paul Michael | Henry | from Scotland is an independent artist, international performer and teacher of Butoh dance. He will travel from Glasgow to Berlin to take up an invitation to participate in a programme of intensive training, performance and networking at ‘eX..it! Festival, directed by renowned Butoh master Yumiko Yoshioka. |
| Germany, Berlin | 2019/2020 | Rosie | Heafford | from Surrey has been selected by Assitej UK to represent Great Britain at the international exchange conference ‘Directors in TYA’ in Berlin. Assitej is a world-wide organisation dedicated to the artistic, cultural and educational rights of children and young people. As Artistic Director of ‘Second Hand Dance’ currently touring internationally, the invitation affords an opportunity to access a global network, take part in seminars, creative exploration, view performances and further her practice as a choreographer making work for young audiences. |
| Germany, Dresden | 2018/2019 | Adam | Rutherford | performer, choreographer and Artistic Director of Rutherford Dance Company Youth, is based in Birmingham. He will travel to Germany to visit the Palucca Hochschule fur Tanz to observe training methodologies for young dancers in preparation for their future. His aim is to create long terms plans for his Company and build international relationships with a view to exchange and choreographic commissions. |
| Germany, Dusseldorf; France, Montpelier; | 2012/2013 | Phillip | Hargreaves | a 24 year-old dance producer from Bradford, will travel to Dusseldorf and Montpelier to attend two high profile industry festivals to see work, network and attend seminars. |
| Germany, Frankfurt | 2015/2016 | Tamara | Tomic-Vajagic | a dance lecturer based in London, will travel to Frankfurt, Germany to undertake the first phase of her research project exploring the unique role of dancers as artistic collaborators and performers in The Forsythe Company |
| Germany, Gottenborn | 2011/2012 | Marguerite | Galizia | a 29 year-old, Maltese dancer and choreographer living in London travelled to Gottenborn, Germany to participate in an international research laboratory led by Johannes Birringer, with a range of artists working with digital devices in a performance context |
| Germany, Klein Leppin | 2006/2007 | Kathinka | Walter | choreographer and dance teacher from Leeds travelled to Klein Leppin near Berlin where she had been invited to assist the artistic director of Festland e.V., Steffan Tast, for a new project with the Rundfunk Symphony Orchester/Berlin with socially disadvantaged young people. |
| Greece, Athens | 2008/2009 | Helen | Williams | a 29 year-old choreographer and researcher living in Newcastle upon Tyne travelled to Athens to attend the 22nd World Congress on Dance Research and present a lecture demonstration. |
| Greece, Athens | 2011/2012 | Henrietta | Hale | a 37 year-old dancer/choreographer living in London travelled to Athens, Greece to participate in a choreographic research residency at the Duncan Dance Research Centre, an opportunity to share practice with practitioners from different cultural backgrounds |
| Greece, Thessaloniki | 2014/2015 | Michael | Machin | a 56 year-old accompanist, teacher and self-employed computer programmer from Cumbria, will travel to Thessaloniki, greece, to attend the Pontos Project seminar to learn dances, music and songs from different areas of Pontos and attend lectures. The scholarship is for £280. |
| Ireland, Cork | 2003/2004 | Miriam | King | 43 year-old performer and choreographer based in Brighton made four visits to Cork, Ireland, to undertake a residency at the Institute for Choreography and Dance |
| Ireland, Dublin | 2003/2004 | Julie | Hynes | 37 year-old Irish dance teacher living in Pembrokeshire made two trips to Ireland to attend Irish dance workshops and to take a teachers’ qualification |
| Ireland, Limerick | 2015/2016 | Helka | Kaski | a performer based in London, will travel to Limerick, Ireland to undertake an exploratory dance residency with Stephanie McMann at Dance Limerick as part of her transition from performer to multi-faceted collaborator. |
| Ireland, Limerick | 2015/2016 | Stephanie | McMann | a dance artist from London, will travel to Limerick Ireland, to undertake an exploratory dance residency with Helka Kaski at Dance Limerick, as part of her transition into the next phase of her dance career. |
| Italy, Bologna | 2007/2008 | Susan | Scarth | a lecturer/researcher in Dance Movement Therapy and chair of the Association of Dance Movement Therapy in the UK travelled to Bologna where she had been invited to attend a conference that seeks to promote and develop Dance Movement Therapy in Europe |
| Italy, Bologna | 2013/2014 | Elizabeth | Clark | a 39 year-old dance artist and co-artistic director from Loughborough, will travel to Bologna to take part in “La Baracca Testoni Ragazzi International Festival for early Childhood”; she will attend performances, conferences and master classes to explore work and artistic processes |
| Italy, Sardinia, Nuoro | 2003/2004 | John | Clifford | 49 year-old Junior Morris administrator located in Bristol travelled to Sardinia to visit the 2003 Europeade Dance Festival prior to taking a youth team in 2004, and inviting the festival to England for 2008 |
| Italy, Turin | 2010/2011 | Andrew | Kim | a 40 year old American pupeteer and Artistic Director of Thingumajig Theatre living in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. He was one of five performers invited to travel to Turin to participate in the Incanti Project, a three week master class taught by the legendary master pupeteer, Frank Soehnle |
| Italy, Venice | 2008/2009 | Wendy | Houston | a 49 year-old performer, choreographer and teacher living in London travelled to Bassano del Grappa in Italy for a research residency by Operestate Festival Veneto in order to develop a new piece dealing with the notion of translation. |
| Netherlands, Amsterdam | 2008/2009 | Bonnie | Meekums | 55 year-old lecturer living in Tameside, travelled to Amsterdam to attend the 4th Congress on Pyschomotricity to develop networks, attend lectures and workshops and present a paper. |
| Netherlands/Italy, Rotterdam/Bassano del Grappa | 2015/2016 | Danielle | Jones * | a dance artist from London, will travel to Rotterdam, Holland and Bassano del Grappa, Italy to further develop her dance practice with people with Parkinson’s, working with specialist dance for Parkinson’s artists in both locations. |
| Norway | 2019/2020 | Scarlett | Perdereau | from London is a freelance dance artist teaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and runs and facilitates the Forum on Embodied Practice. She will travel to Norway at the invitation of the Norwegian organisation SIB Lab to facilitate, take part and introduce the UK Forum on Embodied Practice to a wider community of dance practitioners in the Nordic countries. |
| Norway, Hammerfest | 2011/2012 | Gabrielle | Agis | a 50 year-old dancer/choreographer living in London travelled to Hammerfest, Norway to research the imagery used in traditional dances of the Sami people in Northern Lapland. |
| Norway, Hammerfest | 2016/2017 | Emelie | Wangstedt | a free-lance dancer and choreographer from London will travel to Hammerfest, Norway, to create a performance: “Recycling the Past’, and lead workshops for children aged 10 and under. |
| Norway, Trondheim | 2016/2017 | Ben | McEwen | dancer and teacher from Chester will travel to Norway to take part in a one month choreographic research residency, ‘A Farewell to Flesh’, which will investigate the concept of carnival as a place of transformation. |
| Portugal, Lisbon | 2015/2016 | Nuno | Silva | a dance artist based in London, will travel to Lisbon, Portugal to research the dance movement which once existed in the Portuguese music genre of Fado in collaboration with the Fado Museum, traditional Fado Houses and local singers, guitarists and historians. |
| Portugal, Lisbon | 2009/2010 | Errol | White | a 38 year old British dancer and choreographer living in Edinburgh travelled to Portugal, Lisbon to explore the relationship between choreographer and composer. |
| Russia, Moscow | 2019/2020 | Alex | McCabe | from Glasgow is an independent choreographer, educator and inter-cultural project facilitator working with inclusive dance. He will attend Moscow’s Inclusive Dance Festival in order to resource his practice in the UK.The focus of the Festival will centre on international and inter-cultural perspectives on dance and access. |
| Scotland, Edinburgh | 2011/2012 | Emily | Shaw | a 39 year-old dancer/choreographer currently living in Brighton travelled to Dance Base in Edinburgh to study Peggy Hackney’s approach using Bartenieff’s Principles, exploring areas of personal growth and creativity |
| Scotland, Edinburgh | 2014/2015 | Rosie | Heafford | a 26 year-old freelance teacher and choreographer from Surrey, will travel to Edinburgh, Scotland, to visit the ‘Imaginate Festival’, Scotland’s international Festival of Performing Arts for young people to watch performances, attend discussions and masterclasses in order to learn more about making dance for children. The scholarship is for £120. |
| Scotland, Edinburgh | 2016/2017 | Katy | Noakes | an independent producer currently working as ADAD South-west regional programmer from Bristol will travel to Edinburgh to revisit a revised production by North American company, Bluemouth Inc in order to inform plans to programme the work in Bristol in 2017. The scholarship is for £170. |
| Scotland, Findhorn | 2006/2007 | Hagit | Bar-Fleming | dancer, teacher and choreographer from London travelled to Findhorn, Scotland, to take part in a Solo Performance Commissioning Project led by Deborah Hay |
| Scotland, Findhorn | 2015/2016 | Evangelia | Kolyra | a performer and choreographer based in London, will travel to the Findhorn Community in Scotland to participate in a research week with US choreographer Deborah Hay. |
| Scotland, Findhorn | 2006/2007 | Lauren | Potter | rehearsal director for the post-graduate performance group at London School of Contemporary Dance travelled travel to Findhorn in Scotland to take part in the Deborah Hay Solo Commissioning Project. |
| Scotland, Isle of Skye | 2010/2011 | Kaja | Bjorntvedt | a 28 year old London based Norwegian composer working in collaboration with choreographers wished to extend her collaborative skills through an invitation to the Isle of Skye to attend rarescale, an electric-acoustic artistic retreat to focus on soundscores for contemporary dance |
| Slovakia, Banska | 2013/2014 | Thomas | Davies | a 22 year-old break dance teacher from Newport, Gwent, will travel to Banksa, Slovakia, to attend “Catch the Flavour Breakdance Summer Camp” which is taught by four pioneers of breakdance. The Camp culminates in a jam called “Outbreak Europe”. |
| Spain, Barcelona | 2002/2003 | Gillian | Cornelius | lecturer and freelance dance practitioner from Poole travelled to Barcelona for a two-month placement with the Spanish Dance Company, Senza Tempo |
| Spain, Barcelona | 2016/2017 | Jose | Agudo | a free-lance choreographer and rehearsal director for Akram Khan Company is from London. He travelled to Barcelona to return to his roots in Flamenco for the research and creation of a new solo work. |
| Spain, El Arlequi, Banyoles, Girona | 2009/2010 | Antonio | Guedes | a 27 year old Spanish contemporary dancer and choreographer living in London travelled to Girona in Spain to train with Julyen Hamilton at an annual workshop on Dance Technique and Improvisation. |
| Spain, Madrid | 2002/2003 | Marina | Grut | president and founder member of the Spanish Dance Society in Europe, living in London, travelled to Madrid to study with the sole teacher of Escuela Bolero in its original form in order to make video recording to go with book on the Bolera School that she has had published |
| Spain, Madrid | 2003/2004 | Matthew | Morris | 33 year-old Australian dancer based in London travelled to New York City to spend a month visiting different companies and developing his photographic work |
| Sweden, Malmo | 2007/2008 | Sonia | Sabri | a freelance dancer currently living in Birmingham travelled to Malmo in Sweden to participate in a choreographic development project with Lisa Turin to inform her own creativity in Kathak |
| Sweden, Stockholm | 2008/2009 | Becky | Edmunds | a 41 year-old dance artist and videographer living in West Sussex travelled to Sweden to undertake a screen dance research project at the invitation of Shoot, Swedish Dance for the Camera Festival. |
| Sweden, Stockholm | 2012/2013 | Dora | Frankel | a 60 year-old artistic director, teacher and choreographer from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, will travel to Stockholm to attend the conference ‘Ballet: Why and How’ in order to explore and engage with changes and developments in international practice. The scholarship is for £271. |