2019

Low Decile Schools Attendance Programme

$15,000 – Supported by various donors

Contributions to the Low Decile Schools Attendance Programme off-set costs for students at low-decile schools to attend the RNZB schools’ performances, by paying for transport and allowing the RNZB to give those students a discount to the ticket cost.

Barbara Webster Memorial Scholarship

$10,000 – Supported by a bequest in memory of Barbara Webster

Establish in 2017, this scholarship provided $2,000 per annum to a classical ballet student studying at the New Zealand School of Dance, official school of the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

The 2019 recipient was Tayla-Rose Frisby.

Harry Haythorne Award

Supported by the Harry Haythorne Fund

After a hiatus re-thinking the Harry Haythorne Award in 2018, in 2019 the Foundation Trustees sponsored choreographer Loughlan Prior in his creation of a new work for the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Hansel & Gretel.

Choreographic Research Project

The Ballet Foundation supported RNZB Choreographer in Residence Loughlan Prior on an international research project.

Loughlan wrote about his experience, “At the end of 2018 I was commissioned by the Royal New Zealand Ballet to create Hansel & Gretel, my first full length production. Excited and focused on the enormous scale of the task ahead, I took it upon myself to embark on a period of research and development abroad. My main focus was to strengthen my skills as a choreographer by observing and studying the work of other creative artists presenting narrative dance and theatre work in Australia, Singapore and the UK.”