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DUETS – Delivering Unique and Exciting Training Strands
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Ballet Cymru and Rubicon Dance awarded £138,000 from The Paul Hamlyn Foundation to deliver opportunities in advanced training and participation for dancers and communities in Wales.
Ballet Cymru and Rubicon Dance have come together to forge a unique partnership between a professional ballet company and a participatory dance organisation in the Welsh Dance Sector to offer scholarships for training to talented young dancers, provide an advanced training provision for professional dancers and widen awareness about dance throughout Wales through a series of bespoke residencies.
Rubicon Dance and Ballet Cymru are delighted to announce that after auditioning 1200 pupils from 10 primary schools in Cardiff and Newport, 30 dance scholarships have been announced to young pupils with outstanding potential for dance. Working together the two organisations will harness the best of participatory dance practice and the best of ballet practice to 30 pupils who might not otherwise be able to attend dance and will now have access to tuition free of charge for two years. They will also be given ballet uniforms free of charge and have free access to intensive Summer School Training. The thirty scholars will begin classes 26 November at Rubicon Dance, Cardiff and on 27 November at The Riverfront, Newport.
The funding also enables the partners to increase the profile of ballet and community dance across Wales by hosting six intensive and inspirational residencies annually. These residencies will broaden participation and awareness of dance to a diverse cross section of the community. Residencies happening so far include an adult group with physical and learning disabilities based in Newport, Tights and Toupees, and working with a class at Llanderyn Primary School in Cardiff with children aged 7-9 with physical and learning disabilities. Further residencies will also include working with children with Epilepsy, people with Parkinson’s disease and working with Roald Dahl specialist nurses in hospitals throughout Wales.
Rubicon Dance will also use the funding to address the dearth of career development provision for professional dancers in Wales, by harnessing the experience of Rubicon’s nationally renowned apprenticeship scheme and creating a series intensive work placement apprenticeships, that are flexible and tailored to specific and individual needs
The first two apprenticeships have been awarded to independent dancer, Eleanor Brown and Mandev Sokhi, education officer, Ballet Cymru |
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 |
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