MAD DANCE HOUSE
Grants/residencies

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mdh rise up GRANT RECIPIENTS

The ‘Rise Up’ Grant is awarded by MDH to independent local artists to help them create, showcase and upskill. This is an initiative dedicated to giving back to the local dance community and MDH is proud to have supported many artists in their journeys.

ARTIST SUPPORT CONTACT FORM

  • BUDDY MALBASIAS
    2026 RISE UP GRANT RECIPIENT

    Buddy received a $10,000 cash grant and studio residency to develop his work towards an informal showing at the ‘Ascend’ showcase on September 5th, 2026 as part of the inaugural TranscenDance Festival.

  • FLOSS MOLONEY
    2024 RISE UP GRANT RECIPIENT

    Floss received $3,000 and 3 weeks of studio residency at Mad Dance House to produce her short film “White Picket Fence”. White Picket Fence aimed to “...explore the societal pressures and expectations placed upon emerging adults, particularly concerning career choices and the traditional notion of success”.

    Watch “White Picket Fence” here!

  • Grant Recipients

    Jessica Goodfellow
    Creative Development

    “The MDH Rise Up grant has been an invaluable offering for me as I have just moved to Brisbane. The grant has given me the opportunity to explore a project I moved here to launch, and has allowed me to begin in a place that feels perfect, with the freedom of time and space.”

    Maryanne Nucifora & Michael Huges
    Video Concept Project
    This grant helped with paying the dancers and extras to create this video.

    Watch here

    Kerrod Box
    Concept Choreography

    “The Rise Up grant has given me the opportunity to pay my beautiful talented friends. The privilege to give my dancer the pay she deserves has been one of the most rewarding experiences thus far in my careers. This grant has give me the creative freedom and resources to make a leap into the professional dance world.”

    Watch Here

  • Grant Recipients

    Georgina Baumann
    Indigenous Community Hip Hop Classes delivered locally.

    Amira Younan-Wise
    Concept Video Project.

    Watch Here

    Bella Hood
    Studio Time, Creative Process and Showing.

    Robert Tinning
    ‘The Drip’ Creative Development.

  • Grant Recipient ($10,000)

    Lisel Zink
    Created “AWESOME: A STATE OF WONDER AND FEAR”.

    Liesel Zink Interview


    Grant Recipients (2 x $1,500)

    The 2 x $1,500 Rise Up grants were awarded to Georgia Pierce and Asher Bowen-Saunders.

    Asher Bowen-Saunders
    Asher created ‘Call To The Stone’ a dance film that speaks to where we are as a species and how we’ve arrived here; our collective narrative told with gentle potency to bring awareness, lighten our spirits and walk each other home to our connected Origin. What is it like to inhabit your body? What world do you ache for?

    Watch 'Call To The Stone'

    Georgia Pierce
    Georgia used the funds to fund her studio residency and create a solo experimental dance piece. She also engaged her brother, who produced the music for her piece.

    Watch Georgia's Piece at HYPE NIGHT 2019!

  • Grant Recipient ($10,000)

    Sammie Williams
    Sammie Williams further developed “One Way”, a Hip Hop, Breaking and Contemporary Dance Theatre Show, which showed at La Boite Round Theatre.

    Watch Sammie's Interview

    Grant Recipients (2 x $1,500)
    The 2 x $1,500 Rise Up grants were awarded to Charles Ball and Wanida Serce.

    Charles Ball
    Charles used the studios for 2 weeks to develop a 20-minute dance piece with Sam Evans, experimenting with the fusion of Contemporary and street dance together.

    Wanida Serce
    Wanida used the grant money to fund her trip to Japan so that she was able to dive into the culture and train in the style of Waacking.