Scholarships

Annual Scholarship

A scholarship of $3,000, provided by the State Government through the Department of Culture and the Arts, is awarded each year to a recent or current member of STEPS between the age of 16 – 25 years. This Scholarship aims to support young artists in securing an ‘extraordinary’ arts experience outside Australia’s excellent dance education environment.

2011 Winner - Tyrone Robinson

Tyrone (19) has been a member of STEPS for 3 years, on the Board of Management as Company representative for a year, and worked with Alice Lee Holland and Adam Wheeler as an emerging choreographer on FREERANGE 2009 and PHOENIX. He is currently 3rd year WAAPA Bachelor of Arts degree.

Tyrone used his scholarship to travel to New York and undertake a 2-week secondment with independent artist Kyle Abraham and his company Abraham.in.Motion.

He spent the first week working with Abraham and the company in rehearsal times joining them creating and rehearsing material for “Live! The realest MC” which has since premiered in Pittsburgh. During his second week Tyrone participated in a residency with Abraham at the Mark Morris Studios in Brooklyn. Highlights for Tyrone included performing in the Residency showing , choreographing some floor work for the Residency and working with the “unique movers” of A.I.M.

“I got so much from working with this company, not only a greater sense of what’s out there that I really enjoy watching as well as dancing, but I also made some amazing new friends”

Tyrone also managed to squeeze in some sight seeing, some of NYC's legendary shopping and a dance class at Broadway Dance Centre with Luam, Boy Boi and Sheryl Murakami - some of the most acclaimed commercial dancers in New York!

“On my weekends I travelled north of the city to Purchase and got to see the amazing SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory an absolutely beautiful campus, but more importantly I got to see my friends that I had met when they came to WAAPA on the exchange program.”

Tyrone with the cast of "Live! The Realest MC"
From left to right: Rachelle Rafailedes,Chalvar G.Y. Monterio, Rena Butler, Maleek Washington, Hsiao Jou Tang,Tyrone Robinson, Elyse Morris