PAST WINNERS
Hayley Matthews - 2019-2020
Project : Sanctuary on the Fault Line
Sanctuary on the Fault Line is a global female led dance movement. Guided by woman, wildness, health, contemporary movement science, uniqueness and the birthing of effortless power, agency and dance. It supports and nurtures dancer's power, and how this power can reach society in its freshness and potency. It does this through establishing deep holistic health as the key to great dance. It gardens the foundations of this deep health by making available - contemporary movement science informed by Rolfing, the work of dance's great ancestresses, meditation as vital to dance training and exquisite performance, deeply healthy horizontal global and local relationships between dancers and dancers and audiences, gift economies for dance to dwell in, a wise group of friends from different fields, a license to take space in the wild to dance professionally without permission and support to do this, and by slowly growing scientific evidence to fortify the work of dance performance in the wild.