Eligibility

Independent dancers

Our Independent Division offers guidance and financial support to help all dancers to develop new skills, or even start up a new business. To qualify for financial grants in this category applicants must have:

• Been working as a professional dancer for a minimum of eight years
• Worked at least five of those years in the UK
• Worked for at least four months during each of the last three years of employment

Company dancers

Our Company Fund enables us to offer support to professional dancers who have worked with companies contributing to DCD. To become eligible for grant assistance under this scheme you must have been a professional dancer for a minimum of eight years and spent at least five of those years with one or more of the following companies:

• Adzido Pan African Dance Company (until 2005)
• Birmingham Royal Ballet
• English National Ballet
• Northern Ballet Theatre
• Phoenix Dance Company
• Rambert Dance Company
• Richard Alston Dance Company
• Scottish Ballet
• Siobhan Davies Dance Company (since 2005)
• The Royal Ballet

Retirement on medical grounds

Should dancers have been unable to meet the above criteria for the Independent or Company Division of DCD because they have been forced to retire due to illness or injury, we may still be able to help. Contact us for more information.