Storer Named 2014 Scholarship Recipient

Posted by admin on Aug 18, 2014 in News & Publications | 0 comments

Trinity United Methodist Church, Richland Center, is pleased to announce that Jacob Eldon Storer, son of John & Chris Storer, Richland Center, has been named a 2014 recipient of a $500 higher education scholarship.

Jacob will be entering his second year of a three-year curriculum on August 25, 2014, at the prestigious Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) in Brussels, Belgium, a superior school for contemporary dance designed to train both dancers and choreographers with additional concentrations on other performing arts and basic theoretical teaching.  Recognized by the Ministry of Education as a school for contemporary dance, P.A.R.T.S. receives structural support from the Ministry of the Flemish Community.

Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Bernard Foccroulle, director of the national opera De Munt / La Monnaie, founded the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in 1994.  Under its new director Peter De Caluwe, De Munt/ La Monnaie has continued its structural partnership with P.A.R.T.S.  Since 1994, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has been the director of P.A.R.T.S. whose artistic vision and work, developed since 1982, are a permanent source of inspiration for the pedagogical program.

After a seven-day audition involving over 1000 worldwide applicants, Jacob was selected in 2013 as one of 52 other students to attend the three-year training cycle as Generation XI.  Prior to his current enrollment, Jacob was a 2010 graduate of Richland Center High School and attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 2010-2013 as a double-major in dance and arts management.  He has previously studied abroad in Limerick, Ireland, attending the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance.

Since 2004, Trinity UMC has awarded $3,250 in scholarship monies to high school seniors and returning adult learners in the form of higher education and continuing education scholarships to its members and regular attenders.  Considered an important component of the Trinity ministry, the scholarship is partially funded in memory of Nancy Edwards, Roger Jewell, and Ralph and Helen Monteith and facilitated by the Trinity United Methodist Church Memorial Committee.  For more information regarding the Trinity scholarship ministry, contact the church office at 647-3203 or Memorial Committee Chair Paul Murphey at 647-6439.  Details for the 2015 Trinity scholarship will be available on November 30, 2014.

Trinity United Methodist Church congratulates Jacob Storer on his amazing achievements and is pleased to support financially his personal goal to one day become a working choreographer and performance artist.