• Further your choreographic practice, increasing confidence and developing innovative and effective ways of creating new work
• Raise your profile within (and potentially beyond) the dance sector
• Gain a clearer understanding of potential audiences for, and commissioners of, your creative work, better informing your research and development
• Embed your future development and work within a local and national context: with other potential future collaborators, support agencies, companies, promoters, producers / venues and events

GDance staff invest in Fellows over approximately 6-9 months to help them progress with a Dance Leadership, Arts Management or Artistic career. The benefits, dependent on the aims of each Fellow, can include:

• mentoring from a professional choreographer, Dance Leader or producer / manager
• a contribution to travel and/or training costs to attend courses, performances and conferences
• free places on GDance courses including Lead In
• opportunities to shadow, and benefit from observations with, experienced dance practitioners
• assisting at GDance events and / or in the office or studio
• self-reflection, evaluation and reporting on learning

This opportunity is supported by Gloucester City Council, and Fellows must therefore be teaching, working and/or living in the City.

Our 2012/13 Fellows are:

• Aislinn Lewis, who is working to develop her film work, including creation of an education package to sell to schools
• Tyler Attwood, an urban dancer and emerging Dance Leader, who is working to hone his leadership skills, brand and marketing / dance business development skills