danceWEB Scholarship
The danceWEB programme is a 5 week further education and exchange programme taking place every year in July and August in Vienna in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.
The programme offers young professional dancers and choreographers from mainly European but also non-European countries the possibility to take part in an intense multinational further training programme.
The programme focuses on the exchange of ideas and knowledge, not limited by national borders, on concentrated further training, on meeting with internationally renowned artists gathering at ImPulsTanz with the aim to orient the career of its participants and establish a network.
In order to achieve both its educational and artistic goals, the danceWEB participants are accompanied each year by artistic mentors selected amongst dance personalities, who have played a decisive part on an international level in the development of contemporary dance in recent years.
Application Information
A participation includes the following free services:
- free participation in the ImPulsTanz Research Projects (Pro Series & Field Projects)
- free participation in the ImPulsTanz workshops
- free admission to all productions of ImPulsTanz
- free accommodation in Vienna for the entire duration of the programme (5 weeks)
- artistic accompaniment by the artistic mentors
- exchange of ideas and contact with the international guests at ImPulsTanz
- lectures
- representation in the yearly growing, international danceWEB-database
- opportunity of building up international networks
The programme does not include travel, per diem, visa and insurance expenses! These expenses need to be covered by the participants themselves!
If selected for the danceWEB programme, the participants still need to find a financial contribution (EUR 2.500,-) to their total programme expenses from national/regional funding institutions in their home country/country of residence in order to secure their participations.
danceWEB Scholarship Mentors
2026 Raja Feather Kelly
2025 Raja Feather Kelly
2024 Isabel Lewis
2023 Clara Furey in dialogue with Lara Kramer and Caroline Monnet
2022 Wim Vandekeybus & Nicola Schössle
2020 Anne Juren & Frédéric Gies
2021 Anne Juren & Frédéric Gies
2019 Anne Juren & Annie Dorsen in Dialogue with Mette Ingvartsen
2018 Florentina Holzinger in Dialogue with Meg Stuart
2017 Doris Uhlich, Austria
2016 Tino Sehgal, Germany/UK
2015 Mentorship Collective Teachback!
2014 Chris Haring, Austria & David Wampach, France
2013 Ivo Dimchev, Bulgaria
2012 Benoît Lachambre, Canada & Robin Poitras, Canada
2011 Boyzie Cekwana, South Africa & Isabelle Schad, Germany
2010 Sarah Michelson (USA/UK) & Yasuko Yokoshi (USA/Japan)
2009 Philipp Gehmacher, Austria & Christine de Smedt, Belgium
2008 DD Dorvillier & Trajal Harrell, USA
2007 Jonathan Burrows & Adrian Heathfield, UK
2006 Mathilde Monnier & Loïc Touzé, France
2005 David Zambrano, The Netherlands
2004 Mark Tompkins, USA
2003 Ko Murobushi, Japan
2002 Vera Mantero, Portugal
2001 Mark Tompkins, France
2000 Emio Greco, Italy & Pieter C. Scholten, The Netherlands
1999 Emio Greco, Italy & Pieter C. Scholten, The Netherlands
1998 Jorma Uotinen, Finland
1997 Ismael Ivo, Germany & Susanne Linke, Germany
1996 Stephen Petronio, USA