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Arts Tasmania

Annie Greig Dance Scholarship 2023

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.

Once supported activities are complete, the recipient must deliver a significant engagement with the Tasmanian dance sector. This may include sharing their knowledge and experience through classes, lectures, demonstrations, forums, or the development of resource material for the use of other dance professionals, or students or practitioners of dance.

One scholarship was approved for this round.

Funding recommendations were made by expert peers drawn down from the Cultural and Creative Industries Expert Register.

Grants

RECIPIENT

ACTIVITY

FUNDS

Elizabeth Johnstone

Study MA Screendance Course Overseas

$25,500

Feedback from the expert peers

General feedback

The peers discussed the overall quality of the applications made to this highly competitive round and made the following comments:

  • Applications should clearly identify the opportunity and explain the rationale for this.
  • Applications should speak to the value or reputation of the dance opportunity and not assume the peers would have knowledge or the organisation or company that they were planning to train or study with.
  • Stronger applications to this scholarship discussed how it would financially support the opportunity.
  • Stronger applications clearly outlined leadership ambitions and how their study or training could be shared more widely in Tasmania.
  • Applicants were encouraged to carefully curate their support material and include a diverse range of sources that were relevant to the application.
  • Applicants were encouraged to carefully check video links and make sure they were accessible and not password protected.
  • Stronger applications included letters of support from industry professionals that spoke to the assessment criteria.
  • Stronger applications included letters of acceptance or confirmation from the organisation or institution that the applicant was hoping to study or train with.

Peer assessors

The following peers assessed in Arts Tasmania’s June 2023 round (including the Annie Greig Dance Scholarship and Individuals and groups):

  • Ashley Bird
  • Adam Wheeler
  • Trisha Dunn
  • Carol Wellman Kelly
  • Elizabeth Braid
  • Esther Ottaway
  • Gerard Lane
  • Helen Kershaw
  • Jordy Gregg
  • Kyle Perry
  • Kym Bywater
  • Laura Purcell
  • Mat Ward
  • Naarah Barnes
  • Natasha Parker
  • Nicholas Brodie
  • Pete Cornelius
  • Sebastian Galloway
  • Shirley Patton
  • Simon Wellington
  • Susan Simonini
  • Vern Field

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.