The Enhanced danceWEB Europe Scholarship Programme for Contemporary Dance is an opportunity for dancers and choreographers to participate in a five-week summer residency in Vienna. The programme offers around 50 young professional dancers and choreographers an intense multinational training programme focusing on the exchange of ideas and knowledge, meeting with internationally renowned artists with the aim to orient the career of the participants.

The scholarship programme is supervised by an artistic coach selected amongst dance personalities who have played a decisive part in the development of contemporary dance in recent years. It includes individual coaching; participation in the research projects of ProSeries and CoachingProject; participation in the technique workshops of ImPulsTanz; admission to all performances of ImPulsTanz; access to approximately 250 awarded dance film videos library; lecture demonstrations; special projects; connection to and presentation of a yearly growing, international database; own homepage within the DanceWEB Europe website and much more. While the scholarship includes accommodation in Vienna for the period of the programme, it will not include travel and per diem expenses.

Eligibility: Participants should be dancers and choreographers with decidedly professional ambitions, preferably be between 22 and 30 years of age, and possess a good knowledge of English. The quality of the dance background is the main criteria for participation in DanceWEB.

Application: Apply online with your personal data, information about your artistic career (education/ further training/ performance activities), an artistic statement in English, three recommendation letters, two recent photos (portrait and dance photo) and your curriculum vitae.

For more information visit: http://www.dancewebeurope.net/

Deadline: 15 December