Dance UK is administering Rayne Fellowships in choreography for 2006 and 2007. For information on the newly appointed 2007 Rayne Fellows or Fellows for 2006 please click on the links to the left.
The Rayne Fellowships for Choreographers have been set up to support and encourage choreographers who want to connect more strongly with society, widen their intellectual and emotional curiosity, and develop their entrepreneurial skills. By helping them experience creativity within a range of contexts, the Fellowships aim to enhance the choreographers’ careers, and stimulate choreographic approaches that are performance and audience aware, outward-looking and engaged with the wider issues of humanity. The Rayne Fellowships are a partnership between The Rayne Foundation and Arts Council England and are administered by Dance UK. A total of £215,471 has been allocated to the project.
Tim Joss, Director of the Rayne Foundation comments: “As our society becomes ever more complex and diverse, we see the growth of incomprehension, insularity and intolerance. Whilst organisations can help to heal divisions, enlarge sympathies and promote understanding, their work alone will never be enough. We need inspiring individuals to build bridges within our complex world. The Rayne Fellowships aim to help and encourage these bridge builders within the UK. In these four Fellows, we have found both choreographic quality and a powerful commitment to bridge-building”
In the future the Rayne Foundation will be continuing the Fellowship scheme in other areas of culture and society within the UK. Ultimately the Rayne Foundation intends to build a network of Fellows, and to enable Fellows to use their influence to find solutions to the problems and needs facing society today.
The Rayne Foundation was founded by Lord Rayne in 1962 and aims to engage with the needs of UK and Israeli society and help address them. Its focus is on arts, education, health and medicine, and social welfare and development work which is nationally important or which has potential for wider than local and immediate application. It never works alone - always in partnership with organisations and individuals which share its objectives.
www.raynefoundation.org.uk
Champions of the Fellowships: Funmi Adewole (Chair, Association of Dance of The African Diaspora), John Ashford CBE (Theatre Director, The Place), Mark Baldwin (Artistic Director, Rambert Dance Company), Theresa Beattie (Arts Consultant), Matthew Bourne OBE (Choreographer), Carol Brown (Choreographer), Julia Carruthers (Head of Dance & Performance, South Bank Centre), Vicki Costello (NESTA), Jonzi D (Choreographer), Celeste Dandeker MBE (Artistic Director, CandoCo), Kate Flatt (Choreographer), Robert Hylton (Choreographer), Stuart Hopps (Choreographer), Shobana Jeyasingh MBE (Director, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company), Ross MacGibbon (Head of Dance, BBC), Wayne McGregor (Choreographer), Royston Maldoom OBE (Choreographer & Community Dance Consultant / Director), David Nixon (Artistic Director, Northern Ballet Theatre), Eddie Nixon (Manager of Artist Development, The Place), Sian Prime (Creative Consultant), Piali Ray OBE (Director, SAMPAD), Alistair Spalding (Chief Executive & Artistic Director, Sadler’s Wells), Sheron Wray (Choreographer), Jan Younghusband (Commissioning Editor, Arts & Performance, Channel 4).
