Nadine Senior Legacy Fund | Northern School of Contemporary Dance

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About the Fund

Established in memory of Nadine Senior MBE, the late founding Principal of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, this fund supports future generations of talented young individuals to access dance education of the highest quality, regardless of personal circumstance.

Your donation will go towards providing financial assistance for students from groups currently underrepresented in higher education, including those who:

are from postcodes where participation in higher education in low;
are the first in their generation to consider higher education;
attend schools and colleges where performance is below the national average;
are care experienced;
have a disability;
are young carers;
are estranged from their families;
are from under-represented ethnic backgrounds.

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About Nadine:

Through her educational vision, teaching and leadership, Nadine Senior MBE (1939- 2016) went on to inspire many of the dancers, choreographers, teachers and dance leaders of our time, internationally.

Nadine lobbied with great spirit and passion to prove the need for professional dance education in Leeds and founded NSCD in 1985. To this day it remains the only conservatoire/Higher Education provision in contemporary dance outside of London.

Though Nadine retired in 2001, the tremendous impact of her contribution continues to resonate. It underpins not only NSCD but Leeds as a City of Dance, with Phoenix Dance Theatre, RJC Dance and many other individual artists and arts administrators touched by her inspiration.