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2026 Recipients
Past projects
2025 – Adelina Larsson Mendoza
'Bell' is a new solo performance and the latest instalment in Min Folkdans, an ongoing archival research project and choreographic collection by Adelina Larsson Mendoza. Drawing from Larsson Mendoza’s Swedish-Mexican family history, Min Folkdans unfolded as a personal, political, and historical meditation on the folk dances that had shaped her imagination.
2025 – Harrison Ritchie-Jones
In 'CUDDLE', two of Melbourne’s rising contemporary dance artists, Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Michaela Tancheff, engage in a difficult and dynamic duel filled with surreal sonic and visual surprises. Weaving contemporary dance with elements from martial arts, figure skating, rodeo barnyard dance, and a host of more abstract inspirations, CUDDLE ebbs and flows from the joyful and absurd to the inventive and technically brilliant.
2024 – gemma+molly
‘LUSH’ is a cyclical performance work where femme bodies, fruit, fans and a blender are drawn into a shared choreographic system. Informed by Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic, the work treats the erotic as a collaborative force, moving between animate and inanimate bodies, ripening, consumption, attention and desire. Through vivid imagery and performative metaphor, ‘LUSH’ queers time and lets its many cycles fall in and out of sync.
2024 – Ta'alili
‘MANU MALO’ is a dreamscape of dance, spoken word, ancestral memory and coexistence. Translating from Samoan as “strong bird,” the work moves between ocean, sky, language and body, tracing how shared experience can shift from speech into embodied expression. Featuring CONJAH, ‘MANU MALO’ carries memories, talanoa and Pacific movement practices into a layered reflection on land, spirit, resistance and the temporary body.
2024 – Emma Fishwick & Serena Chalker
‘What Came Before’ is a playful performance work that brings construction and dance into the same space to question what kinds of labour are valued. Working with what already exists, the piece builds and rebuilds frameworks, structures and materials in real time, drawing attention to the effort, economy and instability behind change. Through dance, manual labour and makeshift infrastructure, ‘What Came Before’ reflects on meaningful work, precarity, impermanence and the often invisible labour carried by feminised bodies.