Attention all professional theatrical designers and makers!
The founding committee for the Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship for Design in the Performing Arts wants you to apply for their travel scholarship.
The travel scholarship provides $10 000 biennially to assist an Australian designer or maker to travel overseas to enhance their career. Applications close 1 December 2013 and the successful applicant will be announced in 2014 at the Green Room Awards (Vic).
The recipient of the 2012 scholarship was Melbourne-based designer Anna Cordingley. Cordingley’s commissions include designs for Chunky Move’s An Act of Now and Connected, and Lucy Guerin’s Human Interest Story. She has also worked extensively in theatre and opera.
Cordingley’s scholarship has seen her travel to Berlin where she is assisting and observing a variety of operas, including Prokofieff's The Fiery Angel at the Komische Oper, Rigoletto for the Staatsoper Wien (Austria) and Macbeth in Essen (Germany). She has spent three weeks visiting the Ruhrtriennale, an international arts festival which occupies a vast ex-indisutrial region in the west of Germany, and later in the year she will travel to London to attend Warburg Institute lectures.
The Kristian Fredrikson Scholarship for Design in the Performing Arts has been created as an on-going memorial to one of Australia’s most distinguished performing arts designers, the late Kristian Fredrikson, who died on 10 November 2005, after a 40-year career which encompassed ballet, opera, contemporary dance, theatre, exhibitions, film and television.
For more information about the scholarship and Kristian Fredrikson go to www.fredriksonscholarship.org
Above: Anna Cordingley's costume designs for An Act of Now.
Above: Anna Cordingley. Photo: Pia Johnson.