Ms Plummer was a 24-year-old dance scholar who died in 2003 from a rare cancer: pleuro-pulmonary blastoma.
The community dance fellowship, believed to be the first of its type in the world, was established by the Caroline Plummer Memorial Trust, which was set up by her family and the University of Otago.
This year's fellow is Brisbane-based independent dance education consultant Barbara Snook.
Ms Snook's mother, daughter and husband have died from cancer. She wants to use her six-month tenure to focus on the community around cancer sufferers.
"Having lost a daughter and husband in the past 18 months to cancer, I have combined the experience of these losses to facilitate movement workshops with the cancer community; those diagnosed, in remission, bereaved, or a close family or friend of a person with cancer," she said.
"The idea is that the workshops may allow those affected by cancer to take control of their lives by expressing themselves through movement. Emotional and physical pain are closely linked. Allowing the expression of emotion through movement explores the different levels of being human and provides opportunities for growth of the spirit and soul," she said.
"I am passionate about the power of dance to communicate beyond what many people are able to express verbally."
Ms Snook's only daughter, Phillipa (39), died from breast cancer in March last year. Ms Snook's husband, Michael McCarthy, died from cancer six months earlier.
"It was my 60th birthday," Ms Snook said.
"We had a great six years, but that's all we had."
Her eldest son, Kristen Hinds, who attended Kaikorai Valley High School, died aged 30 after an accidental drug overdose in Melbourne in January 1995. The trio are buried together in the Pinaroo Cemetery in Brisbane.
Ms Snook has one surviving child, Tim (28).
The group trains at the University of Otago physical education department in Cumberland St at lunchtime every Thursday.
"There are 30 participants in the course. They come and they go. They get treatment and they get sick. It's pretty emotional," Ms Snook said.
Ms Plummer's mother, Bibby Plummer, said her late daughter was also passionate about therapeutic dance for the elderly, disabled, prisoners and the troubled and ill.
"Caroline believed dance provided a unique means of celebrating and improving humanity," Mrs Plummer said.
Ms Snook, who has written four dance textbooks, arrived in Dunedin in March and will complete the scholarship by the end of August.
A public performance of the dance therapy project will be performed in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery at 2pm on Sunday, June 29.