MAD DANCE HOUSE RISE UP GRANT

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2024 MDH RISE UP RESIDENCY AND GRANT WINNER

FLOSS MOLONEY

Massive Congratulations to Floss Moloney, the 2024 recipient of the MDH Rise Up Grant!!

Floss will receive $3,000 and 3 weeks of studio residency at Mad Dance House to produce her short film “White Picket Fence”. White Picket Fence aims to “...explore the societal pressures and expectations placed upon emerging adults, particularly concerning career choices and the traditional notion of success”.

We’re excited to see Floss challenge herself as an artist in bringing this exploratory work to life.

Congratulations also to all the other wonderful submissions. We see you! Keep applying for grants and get your vision out there!

GRANT RECIPIENTS

  • Grant Recipients

    Jessica Goodfellow

    Creative Development

    “The MDH Rise Up grant has been an invaluable offering for me as I have just moved to Brisbane. The grant has given me the opportunity to explore a project I moved here to launch, and has allowed me to begin in a place that feels perfect, with the freedom of time and space.”

    Maryanne Nucifora and Michael Huges

    Video Concept Project
    This grant helped with paying the dancers and extras to create this video.
    Watch here

    Kerrod Box

    Concept Choreography

    “The Rise Up grant has given me the opportunity to pay my beautiful talented friends. The privilege to give my dancer the pay she deserves has been one of the most rewarding experiences thus far in my careers. This grant has give me the creative freedom and resources to make a leap into the professional dance world.”

    Watch Here

  • Grant Recipients

    Georgina Baumann

    Indigenous Community Hip Hop Classes

    Amira Younan-Wise

    Concept Video Project
    Watch Here

    Bella Hood
    Studio Time, Creative Process and Showing

    Robert Tinning

    ‘The Drip’ Creative Development

  • 2019 $10,000 Recipient: Liesel Zink

    Created AWESOME: A STATE OF WONDER AND FEAR

    Liesel Zink Interview

    The 2 x $1,500 Rise Up Grant was awarded to Georgia Pierce and Asher Bowen-Saunders.Asher Bowen-Saunders - Asher created ‘Call To The Stone’ a dance film that speaks to where we are as a species and how we’ve arrived here; our collective narrative told with gentle potency to bring awareness, lighten our spirits and walk each other home to our connected Origin. What is it like to inhabit your body? What world do you ache for? Watch 'Call To The Stone'

    Georgia Pierce - Georgia used the funds to use the studio to workshop and create a solo experimental dance piece. She also was able to use the money to pay her brother, who produced the music for her piece.Watch Georgia's Piece at HYPE NIGHT

  • 2018 $10,000 Recipient: Sammie Williams

    Sammie Williams’ further developed One Way: Hip Hop, Breaking and Contemporary Dance Theatre Show, which showed at La Boite Round Theatre.

    Watch Sammie's Interview

    The 2 x $1,500 Rise Up Grant was awarded to Charles Ball and Wanida Serce.

    Charles Ball - Charles used the studios for 2 weeks to develop a 20min dance piece with Sam Evans. This fused both Contemporary and Street dance together.

    Wanida Serce - Wanida used the grant money to fund her trip to Japan so that she was able to dive into the culture and train in the style of Waacking.