First Artists Announced for Beyond Spring Awards
On Tuesday 07 March, we held our fourth and final round of BEYOND in the 22-23 funding cycle, to select two recipients for the BEYOND: Spring Awards.
Beyond is a seed funding initiative, which aims to nurture, support and kick start artist-led projects and practices that take dance beyond the studio to connect more people to dance, while also fostering collaboration and artistic community within TWR membership.
Piloting a first round in 2018, Beyond was relaunched in May 2022 following a period of consultation with a working group of members, to redesign the fund and experiment with different processes of decision-making, adopting a random selection process for awarding funds (More about the process here).
The Beyond: Spring Awards selection involved a peer review process by members Salma Faraji and Alex Tsiapi, who checked the EOI's against the funds eligibility criteria, shared some responses and thoughts on the proposals to support their onward journey, and witnessed the random selection process to confirm its legitimacy.
We are happy to announce the first of two projects selected in this round is: Clarinda Tse & Jian Yi with JTTE Open Workshops
JTTE Open Workshops proposes a series of open-level workshops for the local community exploring performance-based art forms led by Jian Yi & Clarinda Tse. Drawing on Eastern dance art traditions and performance, the sessions will focus on sharing knowledge and movement through a series of open practice workshops.
The BEYOND funding will allow them to deliver five to six workshops, through which they will begin this year to structure and develop this research project in dialogue with the wider community and consider how they might invite other artists or participants to engage in their work practices.
In sharing practice and research through these workshops they hope to communicate their experience with those interested in connecting with Eastern dance forms and performance art.
As ever, we are grateful to all our members who took the time and creativity to share an idea in their EOI for Beyond and participate in the selection process.
The Spring Awards Draw was the final awards draw in this 2022-2023 round of Beyond funding. Beyond will now be paused pending a process of evaluation, and to allow the funds to re-accumulate ahead of another round of seed funding. Please keep an eye on TWR website and newsletters for details on this later in the year
Awardees in the 2022-23 Beyond Seed Funding Awards:
- Summer Award – Kirstin Haliday with Anya Sirina- In the Gardens
- Autumn Award – Collective Endeavours – Wee Open Floor Day (working title)
- Winter Award – Nina Enemark – Empowered Bodies
- Spring Award 1 – Clarinda Tse & Jian Yi – JTTE Open Workshops
- Spring Award 2 – TBA…!
