When I saw her work "Rite of Passage," and this formal yet informal portrait of her mother, I felt a strong connection.
In her new two-part work, "rite riot," the Zimbabwe-born, New York-based choreographer examines the notion of sacrifice through a contemporary lens, while questioning Stravinsky's and Nijinsky's fascination with "the primitive".
More than 80% of Working Rite trainees go on to full-time employment or apprenticeships.
The tradesman pays the teenager around £50 a week, and Working Rite handles all the red tape and brings the wage up to around £100. "It's a rite of passage," says Sandy Campbell, who cofounded Working Rite with Allan Nicol.
Many nominees offered creative responses to the return of mass unemployment – from Women Like Us to Working Rite.
It was only the year before that the company arrived at BAM for the first time, performing four works ("Rite of Spring," "1980," "Café Müller," and "Bluebeard").
Two of the most recent projects to enter are Dementia Adventure, which is based in Essex, and Working Rite, based in Edinburgh.
Shrewd social entrepreneurs – like those behind Enabling Enterprise, Teach First and Working Rite – will need to continue to scrape around for risk capital, and scramble to build robust business models under innovative services.
For example, Scottish social enterprise Working Rite was supported by the Young Foundation to develop a financially sustainable business model before it could attract capital to its apprenticeship-style work preparation programme, even though it had achieved better results for youngsters from tough backgrounds than its larger, commercial competitors.
In August 2009, Mellor won the AU$40,000 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, for his mixed media work From Rite to Ritual.
Since 2000, Mellor's works have been included regularly in National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award exhibitions; in 2003 he was awarded a "highly commended", for his print Cyathea cooperi, and in 2009 he won the principal prize, for a mixed media work From Rite to Ritual.
