AWARDS IN THE NEWS.Three books were honored this year by Dance Perspectives Foundation. The newly instituted Lillian Moore Award was given to Knud Arne Jurgensen for his two-volume The Bournonville Tradition: The First Fifty Years 1829-1879. The De la Torre La Torre is a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 357 inhabitants. Bueno Prize went to Valerie Preston-Dunlop's Rudolf Laban Rudolf (Jean-Baptiste Attila) Laban, also known as Rudolf Von Laban (December 15, 1879, Pressburg, Austria-Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia) - July 1, 1958, Weybridge, England) was a notable central European dance artist and theorist, whose work laid the foundations for : An Extraordinary Life. A special citation was awarded to Debra Hickenlooper Sowell's The Christensen Brothers: An American Dance Epic.... The 1998-99 Bessie Awards, held September 24, featured a special citation to The Point Community Development Corporation in the Bronx. Choreographer/creator awards went to Ping Chong and Muna Tseng, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (born 1960 in Mechelen, Belgium, grew up in Wemmel) studied from 1978 to 1980 at MUDRA in Brussels, the school linked to La Monnaie and to Maurice Béjart's Ballet of the XXth Century. In 1981, she attended the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. , William Forsythe and the design team of Frankfurt Ballet, Joe Goode, Headlong Dance Theater, Dean Moss, Tere O'Connor, Mary Overlie, and Steve Paxton. Performer awards went to Roxanne Butterfly, Dana Caspersen, Rachael Lynch-John, Paige Martin, Jim May, and Sharon Skepple. The Installation and New Media Award was given to Red Dive for INHABITED 1998: Afterlives.... James "Jimmy Slyde" Godbolt was awarded a 1999 National Heritage Fellowship The National Heritage Fellowship is a lifetime honor presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts. Similar to Japan's "Living Treasure" award, the Fellowship is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. from the National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. .... At the choreographic competition at the Festival des Arts de St. Sauveur, first prize ($4,000) was awarded to Amy Seiwert for her Quilt, second prize ($1,500) went to Christopher Fleming for his Floating World, and third prize ($750) was given to Luis-Martin Charest for his Ice Cream Parlour Dream.... Designer Sandra Woodall was awarded a Fulbright grant to support travel, research, and lecturing in the arts in Taiwan and China.... The third annual Doris Duke Awards for New Work have been awarded by the American Dance Festival The American Dance Festival is a six-week summer festival of modern dance performances, and a school for dance currently held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. to Trisha Brown and Mark Morris ($100,000 each), Mark Dendy and Doug Varone ($40,000 each), and Ann Carlson and Jane Comfort ($15,000 each). |
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