College education can be very taxing. You might be in a situation where you cannot spend a lot of money on college, because of a lot of financial dependencies. That is why scholarships are the silver lining in a stormy sky.

The good thing for dancers in the US is that they can apply for scholarships. Scholarships can reduce the burden of pursuing higher education. Here are two scholarship programs that dancers can use. You can also search for other scholarships. These two are just to give you a glimpse on what you can expect.

Harlequin Dance Scholarship

This scholarship is for dancers who have enrolled in a dance program, and who would like to take up dancing professionally. The age limit is from fifteen and twenty one years of age. The scholarship amount is twenty five thousand dollars. And the number of scholarships is twenty. Students can expect to get up to five thousand dollars as scholarship money. For applying for the scholarship, a letter has to be obtained from the dancing instructor. This letter serves as the nomination letter. A random draw is held to select the dancers for the scholarship. If you miss it, don’t worry. The scholarship will return the next year.

Jessica Karrat Dance Scholarship Fund

The Jessica Karrat Dance Scholarship Fund is for deserving students who want to pursue a career in dance. It helps students fulfill their dreams by funding their dance education. The fund is named so because it is a memorial fund named after Jessica Karrat. Jessica died in a car accident at the tender age of thirteen. Much of Jessica’s time was devoted to taking dance sessions for her friends. Jessica was known to be a happy person, who was full of life. Unfortunately life did not favor her. Since this fund is memorial in nature, the corpus of amount is not large. Yet funds starting from minimum amount of five hundred dollars are given to a deserving dancer.