Fulbright Scholarship

How to apply

Candidates are required to complete two separate applications – one to the Fulbright Commission, and the other directly to Trinity Laban via UCAS Conservatoires – in order to be eligible for Trinity Laban’s UK Partnership award.

To see the full application procedure, visit both the Fulbright website and the Trinity Laban website.

Applications to Trinity Laban open in mid-July each year and applications to Fulbright close in October for the following year’s intake.

The Trinity Laban application, along with all supporting materials and recorded audition where relevant, must be submitted and made available for consideration by mid-November before the year of intake for applications to the Faculty of Music and mid-January of the year of intake for applications to the Faculty of Dance.

Please see our How to Apply pages for details of what is needed for each programme.

Current Fulbright Scholar

Lauren Auyeung

Lauren is a dancer, choreographer and artist from Chicago, Illinois.

During her undergraduate years at Princeton University, Lauren majored in Architecture and spent her summers training in Hip-Hop dance intensives all over the world. Over the past few years, she has trained in Senegal, Germany, Japan, and New York City, which has allowed her to experience the vastness of hip-hop’s global influence. For her senior thesis in the Department of Dance, she was the first student to create a full-length Hip-Hop dance work titled “Over Exposure”.

Lauren enjoyed a summer residency with Urban Movement Arts in Philadelphia, creating her first solo work Threshold, before relocating to New York and joining Concept Kinetics, a hip-hop dance theater company founded by James Cricket Colter, and all-female urban dance collective L/A/Y/E/R/S, founded by Léa Ono. She has also collaborated with artists including Marguerite Hemmings and Ryan Wolfe on multidisciplinary projects.

After graduating in 2019, she was asked to return to Princeton to curate and teach Princeton’s first ever hip-hop technique curriculum. This curriculum brought in artists of color from the NYC/NJ dance community into the Princeton classroom. She is proud to have created a lasting impact in the Princeton dance community.

Past Fulbright Scholars

2019/20: Garrett Snedeker is a 2019 graduate of Washington State University, with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance/Pedagogy.

2018/19 Oluwaseun Olayiwola: Oluwaseun is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Studies. During his tenure as Fulbright Scholar, Oluwaseun studied on the MFA Choreography Programme, exploring issues of identity.

 

2017/2018 Roman Baca: During his tenure as Fulbright Scholar, choreographer Roman Baca developed immersive dance installations exploring experiential memory and ways of connecting military veterans, victims of war and civilians to evaluate how training for war impacts the individual.

 

2016/17 (inaugural recipient), Madison McGrew: A graduate of the University of South Florida, Madison completed her MSc Dance Science at Trinity Laban. Read an interview with Madison on our blog.