D.A.N.C.E
History
Danish American National Cultural Exchange (D.A.N.C.E) is a scholarship program established in 1983 by Neel Resling Halpern, together with Ballet Master Peter Martins, Frank Andersen, and Ted Michaelsen. The purpose of the program is to award scholarships to young talented performing artists giving them the opportunity to further their education by studying in a foreign country, meeting other artists, sharing experiences, and learning new and different techniques. The first scholarship was awarded in 1984, and aside from a hiatus due to the Covid pandemic in 2020 and 2021, D.A.N.C.E has facilitated this continuous cultural exchange between Denmark and the United States every year. Since 1984, 111 young artists from Denmark and the United States have crossed the Atlantic Ocean to further their education and artistic skills through studies under the expert guidance of world-renowned artists in New York and Copenhagen.
D.A.N.C.E. Scholarship Participants
2023
Celine Kalmayer Olsen, Josephine Henriksen, Maya Milic, Oscar Estep
2022
Wilma Søfeldt Li, Clara Adrian, Alyssa Douglas
2019
Elvira Thomsen and Isabel Dokkeldal
2018
Uma Deming and John Colby
2017
Emilie Palsgaard-Jensen, Lucas Praetorius
2016
Isabella Carroll, Nate Compiano
2015
Karoline Gammelgård Jensen, Sarah Olivia Knudsen
2014
Leah Terada, Dammiel Cruz
2013
Viktoria Hildebrandt, Sebastian Haynes
2012
Ashley Hod, Thomas Houston
2011
Emma Håkonsson, Lukas Hartvig Møller
2010
Bianca Bulle, John Poppe
2009
Alban Lendorf, Jon Axel Fransson
2008
Caroline Beach, Alex Peters
2007
Hilary Guswiler, Amalie Adrian
2006
Alies Van Staveren, Hannah Reid
2005
Elisabeth Dam, Alexander Stæger
2004
Rachel Piskin, Tanner Schwartz
2003
Morten Ramsbøl, Martin Stauning, Julie Valentin
2002
Ulrik Birkkjær, Mads Eriksen, Frederik Farrington, Alexander Stæger, Miriam Rowan, Giovanni Villalobos
2001
Mathilde Søe, Asger Schlichtkrull
2000
Lara O’Brien, Philip Spencer
1999
Esther Wilkinson, Nicolai Hansen
1998
Jordan Pacitti, Lauren Toole, Deborah Baley
1997
Gitte Lindstrøm, Margaret Severin-Hansen, Aaron Severin, Rachel Piskin, Tanner Schwartz
1996
Richard Collins, Christine Severini
1995
Gudrun Bojesen, Maria Lund, Eleena Melamed, Stuart Capps
1994
Thomas Lund, Bill Holmberg, Catrina Choate, Sara De Gennaro
1993
Linda Codeno, Britt Dunaway, Michelle Larsen, Charlotte Aamand
1992
Mads Blangstrup, Julian Ringdal, Rachel Englund Rutherford, Timothy Lynch
1991
Thomas Flindt Jeppesen, Henrik Sten Petersen, Nicole Eldridge, John Winfield
1990
Heather Hawk, Robert Wersinger, Vincent Van Webber, Henriette Muus
1989
Christina Olsson, Petruskika Broholm, Asya Verzhbinski, James Fayette
1988
Ulrik Wivel, Michael Weidinger, Chelsey Di Stefano, Cedric Rouse
1987
Marisa Luther, Henning Albrechtsen, Kathleen Trace
1986
Silia Schandorff, Rose Gad, Romy Katz, Robert Lyon
1985
Karina Elver, Mette Blildtcher, Barbra Britton, Jerry Kipper
1984
Niels Balle, Elizabeth Ferrell, Shanon Stevens, Jerry Kipper
