Scholarships Information
Summer Scholarships and the Jewell Choreography Prize
MDAA Summer Scholarship Program
MDAA holds its scholarship auditions for summer workshops and intensives at the Spring Workshop. Students who plan to audition, and their parents/guardians, should read the SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION RULES before deciding to audition. The full Scholarship Listing and Scholarship Audition Form will be posted soon. Please refer to the Specialty Audition Form for MDAA’s new scholarship category!
See the 2024 Summer Scholarship Listing & Forms!
Please note that the in-state and out-of-state ballet auditions are combined for 2024
See the schedule posted on the Spring Workshop page.
download 2024 scholarship audition rules
Download 2024 Scholarship Listing
Download Scholarship Audition Form
Download Specialty Audition Form
2024 Acceptance/Refusal Letters
These letters are due by April 22, 2024
If you are accepting a tuition scholarship (a non-cash scholarship), and you are accepting the award,
you must send the LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE AND THE LETTER TO THE PROGRAM.
Download 2024 Scholarship Letter of Acceptance
Download 2024 Scholarship Letter to the Program
Download 2024 Scholarship Letter of Refusal
Download Scholarship Evaluation Essay Form
Donna Jewell Choreography Prize
The goal of expanding the dance opportunities and experiences students have in Montana was met in the spring of 2015 with the addition of the Jewell Choreography Prize. Donna Jewell, a MDAA workshop guest instructor who was so impressed by the work MDAA does, offered to fund a prize for student choreography. The mission of the Jewell Choreography Prize is to foster original and well-crafted student choreography. The objectives of this prize are to:
Promote creativity and craft in dance choreography by non-professional dancers in Montana
Provide objective adjudication of student choreography in the selection of the prize winner
Award the prize to the most artistically deserving student in accordance with the prize criteria
Allow the awarded student to apply the prize to the dance educational experience of their choice
MDAA holds the Jewell Choreography Prize audition at the fall workshop.