DCD Special Bursaries - What would you do?
What are the DCD Special Bursaries?
Dancers' Career Development (DCD) annually offers Special retraining Bursaries to all Independent Dancers. This year, DCD invites applications for the following Bursaries:
· “Maude Lloyd & Rudolf Nureyev Bursary” (£3,000)
· “Wallace Potts Bursary” (£3,000)
· Two “Acting for Others Bursaries” (up to £3,000 each)
· “Wendy Toye CBE Bursary” (up to £5,000)
Who are they for?
The DCD Special Bursaries are designed for independent or commercial dancers who have danced professionally for at least eight years, five of which must have been in the UK. Earlier applications may be considered if retirement is due to injury or illness. The Bursaries are aimed to finance a personal retraining plan which leads to an accredited career or business start-up inside or outside the dance industry.
Previous bursary recipients include:
"Maude Lloyd & Rudolf Nureyev Bursary"- Luke Baxter (2008), Kevin Muscat (2009) and
Raquel Meseguer (2010)
"Wallace Potts Bursary" – Spencer Soloman (2008), John Taylor (2009) and Vinicius Salles (2010)
"Acting for Others Bursaries"– George Long (2010) and Thema Davis (2010)
Bursary recipient profiles can be found on the DCD website.
Please note that DCD is unable to accept applications from dancers not fulfilling the minimum criteria
or to fund any dance training.
How can I get more information?
Further information, application forms and guidelines are available directly from DCD’s website or by contacting DCD by phone, 020 7831 1449 or by or e-mail, admin@thedcd.org.uk.
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The deadline for receipt of applications is
5pm Monday 19th September 2011 | |
 Dancer: Rupurt Pennefather, Royal Ballet. Photographer:
Tim Cross
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DCD are looking for Mentors
Have you re-trained?
Would you like to support DCD’s ongoing work?
DCD has been operating a networking service for some time and would like to support re-training dancers even further by formalising a mentoring programme.
If you feel you would make a good mentor to dancers at the beginning of their transition, then DCD would love to hear from you.
Please contact Jessica@thedcd.org.uk for further information.
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Production: Adrenalin Dancer: Salah El Brogy Choreographer: Salah El Brogy.
Photographer: Tim Cross
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ISTD Qualifications
Calling all experienced dance teachers and professional dancers!
Do you already hold your initial dance teacher qualifications, or perhaps you are a professional dancer looking to change career? If you’re an experienced dance practitioner, the ISTD has some new qualifications to offer you.
The ISTD has been offering the Licentiate and Fellowship, two highly regarded, internationally recognised advanced level teaching qualifications for many years. In addition to these, we are putting the finishing touches to three further optional qualifications for experienced practitioners: the Level 6 Diploma in Dance Pedagogy; a Higher Education conversion route to the BA (Hons) in Professional Practice: Dance Education; and the MA in Professional Practice: Dance Technique Pedagogy.
These will allow you to build on your initial teaching qualifications, gain recognition as teachers in the wider sector and open more doors across a variety of sectors. Visit us to find out more.
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Dates for your Diary
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16th September 2011
Independent Trust
Business application
deadline
19th September 2011
Independent Trust
application deadline
26th September 2011
Company Fund Business
application deadline
3rd October 2011
Company Fund
application deadline
Application forms,
guidelines and deadlines for the rest of 2011 can be found on our website
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Bursary Special
- TOP TIP -
'The application process is straight-forward, but it pays to think carefully about your individual needs before applying. Dedicate yourself wholeheartedly to the process... do your research and be focused on exactly what you want to achieve and how you would like DCD to help you'
George Long
Acting for Others Bursary
recipient 2010
'Think about what really inspires you, and how you can turn that into a business or profession. Decide what market you want to be in and in what capacity, find out what courses are on offer, and work out how they can help you achieve your goal. Don't be afraid to ask for advice. Keep in mind that your next profession could be for life'
Kevin Muscat
Maude Lloyd & Rudolf Nureyev Bursary recipient 2009
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DCD Retrained Dancers
*Congratulations to Charlotte Farrant, a DCD retrained dancer, who is excelling in her post-performance career. Charlotte now runs a successful Pilates and Yoga studio, The Body Junction, running 25 Pilates classes and two Yoga classes. Charlotte and her husband opened The Body Junction five years ago and now have five teachers working at the studio. The Body Junction is this month's Featured Business of the month (see below)* Claire Cunningham has undertaken yoga teacher training in India and she is now teaching 'Yoga for Dancers' at Greenwich Dance Agency, The Place and with various dance companies in Europe. Claire will also be teaching a new yoga module for the ADS/MA/Edge dancers at The Place which will run from September-December 2011.Claire continues to study for her MA, which will be completed in December this year. Congratulations Claire!* Since the completion of his training as a sound engineer, DCD retrained dancer Yohei Sasaki has recently launched a new website delivering audio services. Yohei also has a work show case. All at DCD wish Yohei every success* Congratulations to Joanne Orr (Bungay) who graduated with Distinction - in a Masters of Science (M.Sc) in Dance Movement Psychotherapy on Thursday 7th July 2011 at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh. The course was 2 years full time at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh. Joanne states 'my graduation ceremony was held at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh where I performed every season with Scottish Ballet from 1998 - 2009. It was very strange and ironic that after giving up the stage I return to the very same floor boards to collect a degree less than two years afterwards' * Congratulations to DCD retrained dancer Nicola A'Hern (Tranah), a professional dancer for over 21 years, who will be teaching the Graduates at the Royal Ballet Upper School from September 2011* Congratulations to DCD retrained dancer Florence Peake who recently qualified as a teacher of the Skinner Releasing Technique, Ongoing Level from the Skinner Releasing Teacher Training Faculty at the Skinner Releasing Institute*DCD retrained dancer Junior Jones who has recently recently completed an MA in Cultural Policy and Management at City University London. Joce Giles has also just completed an MA in Cultural Leadership at City University. Congratulations to Junior and Joce from all at DCD*
Congratulations to all of the dancers featured.
Please do keep us updated on any career news we can feature in this newsletler.
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Recently graduated? Started a new business? Enjoying success in your post-perfomrance career?
Please send us your images to be featured in our Image Gallery.
We love to see what you are doing and your news and images are a great way to inspire others!
Claire Cunningham, DCD retrained dancer. See what Claire is up to in 'Retrained Dancer News' above. Image: Jose Agudo
Joanne Orr (Bungay) receiving her Masters of Science (M.Sc) in Dance Movement Psychotherapy on Thursday 7th July 2011 at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh. Image: Queen Margaret University Edinburgh.
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Paul Mead
DCD Trustee and Development Committee Member
I am one of two representatives of Equity, the performer's union, on the Board of Trustees of DCD, the other being Hilary Hadley, Head of Live Entertainment at Equity. I am on the Equity Council as the Choreographer’s Councilor and am Chair of the Choreographer's Committee. Our brief is to look after the interests of choreographers and also commercial dancers.
I think my background can bring a different perspective to the excellent work the DCD does in helping dancers retrain as I have worked mainly in the commercial and subsidised sector as a director, choreographer and actor. I was trained as a dancer at RAMBERT and as an actor at RADA.
I have appeared in the West End in "Annie", "Pyjama Tops", "Billy Bishop goes to War" and have done two seasons at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park. I have done national tours of plays and musicals and repertory seasons at some of the leading theatres in the country including Nottingham, Northampton and Coventry.
I have choreographed over 80 musicals, plays and pantomimes and have directed at some of the main performing arts schools: Arts Educational, East 15, Webber Douglas and was recently Head of Acting at the Midlands Academy of Dance & Drama.
I hope that during my time with DCD I can help dancers with their career changes.
Paul Mead
DCD's Development Committee is a non-executive
committee drawn from distinguished individuals from
the dance and theatre industry. The Committee
meets five times a year to make recommendations
on Independent Dancers' applications which
are then presented for final approval to the Board
of Trustees. The Committee also looks after
fundraising, raising awareness for career transition
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DCD Featured Business
of the Month
The Body Junction
Charlotte Farrant applied to DCD for funding for her first Pilates Mat Work Course 11 years ago. Having quickly built her business up from scratch to 10 classes in a Church Hall, five years ago Charlotte and her husband Martin opened The Body Junction. Along with 4 other Pilates teachers, two physiotherapists and about 7 different therapists who regularly rent one of
the rooms, 26 classes are run each week.
Charlotte states:
"It has been a lovely journey and I am still learning and still loving teaching and helping people. Pilates is so fantastic if taught at the right level for each individual"
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Are you a DCD retrained dancer?
Would you like your business to feature as a business of the month?
Email for more information.
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DCD Retrained Dancer of the month
Sharon Watson |
A welcome process of change
The idea of giving back to the sector was not optional. Although planning a strategy for achieving this was perhaps not as unproblematic.
Knowing my performance career was coming to an end was not difficult to embrace as I might have expected because my interest within dance was not bound to performance alone. Gaining my degree was the first thing I set out to achieve although this came much later than most as my career started very early when such options were limited. I was able to take a year out but without a regular salary this was a hugely daunting. The blow was cushioned by support from the DCD.
I returned to work knowing that change was imminent and although the pathway forward was still clouded I gained more direction when I progressed from being a dancer to a Lecturer of Dance at The Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Shortly after this I became Rehearsal and Tour Director for Phoenix Dance Theatre, where I am now Artistic Director.
I was afraid that I would have to return to the starting blocks in order to make major changes to the direction of my career. There was uncertainty that I would somehow become separated from the very thing that mapped out my success in dance and could be a distant memory. The Clore programme was absolutely the right course of development for me. Listening to like-minded individuals and having a range of voices to encourage and challenge my thinking was at times overwhelming, however over time I have appreciated the value of the diligent thinking that took place over that period.
Being awarded a Woman to Watch 2010 was an accolade to the work I am developing and I continue to explore ways to enhance and grow, both personally and professionally. This has been underpinned by the re-training. As a relatively new Artistic Director I have begun to reach out to a network of artists inside and outside the dance world who can be intimidated by the title of ‘Artistic Director’. Dancers often aspire towards the role of choreographer but the difficulties they discover in practice deters many of them. I have taken hold of the opportunities available to me to choreograph, but relied heavily on the processes of retraining to ensure that I develop the necessary skills to continue being relevant to the sector as an Artistic Director.
Sharon Watson
Artistic Director Phoenix Dance Theatre |
 Image: Richard Moran
Having trained at London School of Contemporary Dance,
Sharon Watson was a professional dancer with Pheonix Dance Theatre
from 1989-1997. In 2000, Sharon returned to Phoenix as the
Rehearsal and Tour Director, touring extensively in the UK and
USA for 6 years. Sharon become the 7th Artistic Director of
Phoenix Dance Theatre in May 2009.
Sharon was awarded a Dance Fellowship on the
Clore Leadership Programme in 2006. The Dance Fellowship
is funded by DCD and is open to all dancers who have danced
for DCD contributing companies.
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 Production: Auditions for Swan Lake. Company: English National Ballet. Choreographer: Derek Deane. Photographer: Tim Cross
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With thanks to Tim Cross for the images featured in this month's issue.
Tim danced with Birmingham Royal Ballet for fifteen years before receiving a retraining grant from DCD towards start-up costs to work as a professional
Dance Photographer.
If you are a retrained dancer who would like to have images featured in the DCD Newsletter please get in touch.
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And Finally.....
All DCD staff and Trustees would like to thank Gerry Weiss and Russell Brown for all of their combined work on the DCD Board. Both Gerry and Russell will now become 'Honourary Trustees'. Russell Brown will also step down as Chairman of the Finance and General Purposes Committee, to be replaced by Panton Corbett. For more information on DCD Trustees and Committee members please see our website. |
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Support
Dancers’ Career Development is kindly supported by: Combined Theatrical Charities/Acting for Others, Equity Charitable Trust, Society of London Theatre, Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, Cameron Mackintosh Limited.The DCD Fund is kindly funded by the following Contributing companies: Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance Company, Scottish Ballet, Siobhan Davies, The Royal Ballet.
There are many ways that you can help DCD to continue its work. If you, or you know anybody who would like to know more then please do get in touch. |
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