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DCD NED SHERRIN BURSARY WORTH £4000 INVITES APPLICATIONS
Dancers' Career Development (DCD) is delighted to invite applications from commercial and independent dancers for its first annual NED SHERRIN BURSARY. This special dancer retraining bursary is worth £4,000.00 and it is awarded in memory of DCD’s late Trust Chairman Ned Sherrin CBE.
Ned Sherrin, who passed away last year, was well known and much loved as a writer, producer, presenter, actor and broadcaster. He was an equally passionate, articulate, and committed supporter of the dance industry, particularly the freelance and commercial dance sector. Ned chaired the Independent Trust Division of Dancers' Career Development, which supports all UK freelance, commercial and Musical Theatre dancers, since 1998.
The NED SHERRIN BURSARY is the most valuable retraining bursary DCD is currently able to offer to independent dancers. It was made possible by generous donations from various organisations and individuals to honour Ned Sherrin’s memory.
All commercial or independent dancers are welcome to apply if they have been a professional dancer for at least eight years and have performed a minimum of five of these in the UK, or earlier if they had to retire due to injury or illness. The bursary is aimed to finance a personal retraining plan for a professional dancer, which leads to an accredited career or business start-up inside or outside the dance industry.
DCD is unable to accept applications from dancers not fulfilling the minimum criteria or to fund dance training. The application deadline is 31/07/2008, and the proposed retraining project should begin only after this deadline and within one year after the award has been granted. Further bursaries will be advertised in the upcoming months. Please follow the link below to download the application pack (Guidelines, Registration Form and Bursary Application Form) or contact the office for further information.
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2008/9 CLORE FELLOWS ANNOUNCED
Will Tuckett has been confirmed as the new DCD supported Clore Leadership Programme Dance Fellow. The Clore Leadership Programme, an initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation to strengthen leadership in the cultural sector, announced the twenty-three Clore Leadership Fellows for 2008/2009 at a Conference at the Southbank Centre held on Thursday 5th June 2008.
Dancers' Career Development has been supporting the Clore Leadership Programme since it was launched and is involved in the Special Fellowship in Dance, which is exclusively available for eligible DCD Company dancers. We are delighted that this year’s fellow is Will Tuckett.
Will Tuckett (supported by Dancers’ Career Development and The Linbury Trust - Dance) is a Choreographer, dancer and director of theatre, opera and film. Furthermore he is Creative Associate for ROH2 and Principal Character Guest Artist for the Royal Ballet. Further DCD funded Clore Dance Fellows include Lee Fisher, Sharon Watson and Toby Norman-Wright.
5 June 2008
For further information visit www.cloreleadership.org or contact the Clore Leadership Programme on 020 7420 9430 or sue.hoyle@cloreleadership.org
UK - DUTCH Collaboration Agreement launched
Dancers' Career Development and the Dutch Retraining Organisation are pleased to announce the launch of the first European Dancer Retraining Collaboration Agreement. Under the new agreement company dancers who have performed with both UK and Dutch companies but are not eligible to either scheme alone can now combine the years danced in each country to gain eligibility.
The first dancer awarded DCD eligibility under the new agreement is Clair Thomas, who performed with both English National Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet. Clair is now taking the RAD Professional dance Teaching Diploma.
Please do not hesitate to contact the DCD office to learn more about the Collaboration Agreement.
LGSO Concert in support of DCD
The London Gay Symphony Orchestra (LGSO - www.lgso.org.uk) has offered to dedicate its April concert to the memory of the late Ned Sherrin and invited Dancers' Career Development to become the charity beneficiary of the concert. The concert will take place on Sunday, 27th April 2008 at 7.00pm at St. John’s Church, Waterloo.
Ned Sherrin was both Chairman of the DCD Independent Trust and a patron of the orchestra for many years, and the LGSO would like to honour his life and his support for them by raising money for DCD. The programme is:
- Debussy – 3 Nocturnes (no. 1 & 2 only): Nuages & Fêtes
- Poulenc – Flute Sonata (orchestrated by Berkeley) Soloist Des Benton
- Ravel – Rhapsody Espagnole Ravel – Bolero
The venue address is St John’s, Waterloo Road, SE1. A map can be found on the church website: www.stjohnswaterloo.co.uk
We hope that you may be able to attend this concert. Tickets cost £10 (£8 concessions) and can be bought on the evening at the door.
Dancers Career Development is pleased to announce the "Maude Lloyd & Rudolf Nureyev Bursary" and "Wallace Potts Bursaries" awardees 2007
“Maude Lloyd & Rudolf Nureyev Bursary 2007”: Luke Baxter
Luke Baxter has been a professional dancer in Musical Theatre for over 26 years. He received the special DCD bursary to pay for his retraining as nurse to work within his local community.
“Wallace Potts Bursary 2006”: Emily Burns
Emily Burns has been an independent contemporary dancer and choreographer in the UK for 14 years. She has been awarded the special DCD bursary to study for and MA in Integrative Child Psychotherapy.
“Wallace Potts Bursary 2007”: David McCormick
David McCormick has worked as a professional dancer with some of Europe’s leading dance companies since 1994. His work has led him to begin an exploration of the screen as a choreographic space and he has been working on a wide variety of projects since 2001. He receives the special DCD bursary for Business start-up equipment to support his career as a video artist.
Dancers' Career Development is deeply grateful to the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation for donating these highly valuable retraining bursaries in the memory of the late Maude Lloyd, Rudolf Nureyev and Wallace Potts.
If you wish to receive further information on these or other special DCD bursaries please follow this link: more
Dance Fellowship on the Clore Leadership Programme
The Clore Leadership Programme is now inviting applications for its Dance Fellowship. The Fellowship is for an individual aiming to move into a leadership role in dance. It is funded by Dancers' Career Development and the Linbury Trust. DCD eligibility critera for Company Dancers applies: more. The applications for 2008 are now closed.
Toby Norman-Wright becomes the third DCD supported Clore Leadership Fellow
We are very pleased to confirm that former Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer Toby Norman-Wright has been awarded the 2007/8 Clore Dance Fellowship supported by DCD.
Toby thereby becomes the third DCD supported Clore Fellow, which was in previous years awarded to Lee Fisher (former Birmingham Royal Ballet) and Sharon Watson (Phoenix Dance Theatre). The DCD supported Fellowship is awarded annually to current or former dancers who fulfil the DCD Fund eligibility criteria and are selected by the Clore Leadership Programme for this prestigious Fellowship.
The Clore Leadership Programme aims to help to train and develop outstanding leaders in the arts in the UK. Fellows have been selected annually, from the cultural sector and beyond, to undertake an individually tailored programme of tuition, research, mentoring and secondment designed to develop their leadership skills, knowledge, networks and experience. Since September 2004, 108 cultural leaders will have been awarded Fellowships on the Clore Leadership Programme.
Toby Norman-Wright (supported by Dancers’ Career Development and The Linbury Trust) Aged 35. Works freelance as workshop leader/project consultant for the Royal Ballet School’s Partnership and Access Programme and dance tutor/lecturer for Coventry University. Previously consultant/senior tutor for The Prince’s Trust – ‘Dance Live!’, freelance dance tutor/lecturer for Birmingham and Wolverhampton Universities, Dance Officer for Arts Council England and soloist, choreographer and education workshop leader for Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Former dancer Reinhard Michaels opens his second Pilates studio in Little Venice
After the great success of his first Pilates studio in Holland Park, which only opened in early 2006, former Broadway and West End performer Reinhard Michaels opened a second Pilates studio in Little Venice.
Reinhard received a DCD Business start-up grant from the DCD Independent Trust Division in 2005 to support his new studio and we congratulate him to his beautiful Pilates studios. More details about Reinhard’s studio’s can be found under http://www.hollandparkpilates.com