This year Independent Dance is offering bursary awards to support practitioners to undertake MA/MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional, a course led by Trinity Laban in partnership with Independent Dance and Siobhan Davies Studios.
We are offering 4 bursary awards of £500 each for students undertaking study in the academic year 2026-27, thanks to the generous support of the Choreographers’ Gallery.
This bursary fund will be specifically distributed to students who have identified personal caring responsibilities, and where these commitments to caring are proving to be prohibitive to them undertaking this course. It will also be available to students that are travelling from outside of London or the UK, as a contribution towards travel and accommodation.
To be eligible, applicants:
- Will have accepted the offer of a place on MA/MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional full-time or part-time. (For information about the course and how to apply please see here).
And one or both of the following:
- Have identified personal caring responsibilities that are prohibitive to them undertaking the course.
- Are based outside of London or the UK and need support towards the cost of travel.
To apply, please submit a short statement, indicating your eligibility for the bursary. This can be a written statement (maximum 500 words), an audio or video statement (maximum 2 minutes). Of the eligible applications, four will be randomly selected, using a random number generator.
Deadline: Wednesday 20 May 2026
For further information and how to apply, please see the Application Pack below.
This bursary fund has been supported by the Choreographers’ Gallery.