SHIFT - an exciting career development opportunity for Hip Hop Artists, powered by a partnership between Dancers’ Career Development, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company and Boy Blue.

Please complete this form to apply for SHIFT.
If you need any support with your application or would like a confidential conversation please contact dancers@thedcd.org.uk

DCD is committed to ensuring that we reach a diverse group of people. By completing the equal opportunities monitoring information below, you are helping us better understand who is applying for our programmes and where we can improve. Your responses to these questions will not impact whether you are offered a place on the programme.

Your Region

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Age range

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Gender

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Gender Identity

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Sexual Orientation
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Ethnicity

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Disability and/or impairment
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Neurodiversity
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Dependants

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Socio Economic Background

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The following questions form part of your application.
You can can choose to answer questions 1-5 either in writing, and/or with an audio / video recording. You should have one recording to answer these questions, that is a maximum of ten minutes long. We ask you to provide a link and password to your recorded application if so. 

Dance Genre

What is your main dance genre (tick one only)
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For example, independent reading/online research, interviewing others in the field, job shadowing, volunteering/interning, completing a course etc.
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If you are wishing to use the grant towards the cost of a course, please provide details of the course and course provider.  
For programmes of self-study i.e., a programme of learning you have put together yourself that relies on gaining time/access and skills from individuals in a different career please give details of those individuals and what they will offer.
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To find out more about Mentoring, please copy and paste the below link into your web browser. 
https://thedcd.org.uk/dancers/beyond-dance/ 
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This may include gaining certain qualifications or ways in which you'd like to grow and/or professionally develop throughout the process etc.

The following two boxes are here for you to provide your application video link and password to that link. 

If you are not yet sure how you plan to use the grant then please leave blank.

Please use the budget template provided:

Budget Template


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