Annie Greig Dance Scholarship 2024
This scholarship program supports Tasmanian dancers aged between 17 and 26 to travel nationally or internationally (for a combined period of at least three months) to undertake professional development including:
- dancing full-time with a professional contemporary dance company or festival
- studying dance full-time at a dance education institution.
This scholarship is made possible through a generous bequest of $300,000 from the late Annie Greig.
One scholarship was approved for this round. Funding recommendations were made by expert peers drawn from the Cultural and Creative Industries Expert Register.
Grants
Grants
RECIPIENT | FUNDS | ACTIVITY |
|---|---|---|
Lily Alcock | $25,500 | International professional development opportunities |
Feedback from the expert peers
General feedback
The peers discussed the overall quality of the applications to this round and made the following comments:
- Peers agreed that applications should clearly identify a focus on contemporary dance and speak to the guidelines of the aims of the scholarship.
- Peers encouraged applicants to:
- Identify and outline a clear direction for their artistic practice, with activities to show how the opportunities would strengthen their artistic practice
- Confirm all proposed activities and evidence these with letters of confirmation.
- Include discussions of contingencies if any activities were unconfirmed at the time of submission.
- Outline clear and realistic opportunities for sharing knowledge gained through the scholarship opportunity with the wider Tasmanian dance community
- Outline their leadership ambitions and how their study or training could be shared more widely in Tasmania.
- Discuss how the scholarship would financially support their opportunities, with a budget and /or timeline to speak to this
- Carefully curate their support material and make sure that it is of high quality, recent and relevant to the application
- Include letters of support from industry professionals.
- Applicants were encouraged to carefully check video links and make sure they were accessible and not password protected.
Peer assessors
The following peers assessed in Arts Tasmania’s September 2024 rounds (including the Annie Greig Dance Scholarship, Artsbridge, Cultural Heritage Organisations, Low-interest loans, Organisations - youth arts, Organisations – projects, Roving Curators and Tasmanian Residencies):
- Adam Wheeler
- Alastair Moody
- Alexey Yemstov
- Angela Strk
- Belinda Cotton
- Carol Wellman Kelly
- Cheryl Rose
- Christina Graham
- Doug Doherty
- Elinna Evans
- Emalia Al-Gadrie
- Glen Murray
- Helen Kershaw
- Jennifer Kerr
- Louise Daniels
- Mengda Liu
- Michelle Cahill
- Nadia Refaei
- Rose Ertler
- Stephen Salt
- Stevie Battese
- Toban Harris
- Trisha Dunn
- Zara Sullivan
Arts Tasmania carefully manages actual and perceived conflicts of interest for both staff members and peers involved in the assessment process.
More information on the management of conflicts of interest.