Dancers' Career Development invites applications for two special retraining bursaries

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26/05/2010

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Dancers' Career Development invites applications for
two special retraining bursaries

Dancers' Career Development (DCD) is inviting applications for two special retraining bursaries, the “Maude Lloyd & Rudolf Nureyev Bursary” and the “Wallace Potts Bursary”, worth up to £3,000 each, for outstanding retraining applications from professional independent dancers. 

The late Maude Lloyd was a board director and great supporter of Dancers' Career Development.  Maude was also a dancer and muse of choreographers, a dance critic with her husband Nigel Gosling and devoted friend to Rudolf Nureyev. Wallace Potts was a film director, screenwriter, and the research archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation. Both bursaries are funded by generous grants from the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation in memory of these outstanding dance personalities.

All independent or commercial 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 bursaries are 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. 

Please note that DCD is unable to accept applications from dancers not fulfilling the minimum criteria or to fund any dance training.  The application deadline is 5pm on Wednesday 1^st September 2010, and the retraining project should begin only after this deadline and within one year after the award has been granted. 

Dancers' Career Development is unique in its mandate to offer a holistic and comprehensive range of specialist and confidential practical, psychological and financial retraining and career support services to all professional dancers in the United Kingdom.  DCD’s range of services is dancer-driven, strictly confidential and tailored to each individual’s needs.  In addition DCD runs a comprehensive outreach and workshop programme in dance schools, companies and commercial productions, to encourage dancers as early as possible to expect transition periods within and from their performing careers.

There will also be Acting for Others bursaries available.

For further information on the bursary or general enquiries please contact DCD on
020 7831 1449, e-mail admin@thedcd.org.uk or visit our website on www.thedcd.org.uk.

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