ADG’s Jacob’s Pillow Scholarship

THE DUNHAM LEGACY INTENSIVE

The American Dance Guild invites dancers to apply for our scholarship to the renowned summer dance school at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts.

The scholarship covers one dancer’s tuition fees for The Dunham Legacy Intensive in Summer 2025.

The selected dancer must be a member of the American Dance Guild.

The Jacob’s Pillow Dunham Legacy Intensive is a 2-week program that selects 24 dancers interested in artists as activists and humanitarians. The program consists of daily 9-5:30pm studio hours plus up to four hours of evening activities. Jacob’s Pillow summer intensives entail a day-to-evening conservatory style curriculum designed for dancers to embody the stamina, perseverance, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and creative voracity required to live and work as a dance artist. 

For more information on Jacob’s Pillow offerings, visit www.jacobspillow.org. The full list of program fees and scholarship information is available here.

This prestigious opportunity is made possible by the board of the American Dance Guild in collaboration with Jacob’s Pillow. It was formerly known as the Erna Lindner-Gilbert Scholarship, and the Fannie Weiss scholarship, in honor of the women members who founded the scholarship.

Former recipients of the ADG/JP scholarship:

2024 – Sophie Sowinski: ChoreoTech Lab

2022 – Kimberly Lara - Dance Theatre: Afro-Latin Immersion.

2021 – Madison Hilligoss: Tap Program

2020 – Street & Club Dance Program

2019 – Corinna Roche: Flamenco and Spanish Dance Program

2018 – Trinity Dawn Bobo: GAGA: The Movement Language of Ohad Naharin

2017 – Megan Davis: Tap Program with Michelle Dorrance

2016 – Katrina Sarah Miller: Improv Traditions: From Ringshout to Blues with UBW

2015 – Demetrius Burns: Social Dances: Jazz to Hip Hop with Camille A. Breown & E. Moncell Durden