DANCE MAGAZINE OUT & ABOUT.The Dance Magazine Awards, presented at a ceremony in April at New York's Merkin Concert Hall
This year's honorees were Martha Graham Company The Graham Company was founded in 1950 by William Graham III. It is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a leading US insurance broker. Focused on commercial property and casualty insurance for clients with complex risks the company provides services nationwide to a variety dancer Terese Capucilli Terese Capucilli is an American modern dancer best known for her work with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Capucilli was one of the dancers to revive Martha Graham's lead roles after Graham went into retirement in the 1960s. , John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the name by which it is known, (or, as named on the building itself, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts but, locally called the The Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser, choreographer and director Susan Stroman, and New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. dancer Damian Woetzel Damian Woetzel (born May 17, 1967) is the senior male principal dancer for the New York City Ballet. In 2007, he earned a Master of Public Administration degree at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. . They join a select international group of dance luminaries to have received Dance Magazine Awards since 1954. But the recipients are only half the story. We were there--and we've got the pictures to prove it. How about a little eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. to go with them? Bill Randolph described his wife Terese Capucilli as having a "richer, deeper voice than anyone onstage today." What he meant of course was the dancer's unrelenting focus and hard work as illustrated by her response to a suggestion that she try to relax while working with Graham during the creation of Rite of Spring: "If I take it easy, Martha will give up on me. And no one gives up on me!" Eliot Feld rhapsodized on the qualities that make Damian Woetzel's dancing so compelling. The beauty of his epaulement. His musicality. "Great male dancing confirms nature," Feld said, "It is a confirmation of the natural world, not something effete ef·fete adj. 1. Depleted of vitality, force, or effectiveness; exhausted: the final, effete period of the baroque style. 2. or separate. So much of what I love in Damian's dancing is found in the easy, breezy, American style." Just try to get a ticket to Susan Stroman's Broadway smash The Producers. Stephanie Michels, Deborah Yates, and Karen Ziemba of Contact, another Stroman success on Broadway, each described an ingredient that makes Stroman's work shimmer: She is fearless; her work is sexy, exploring the eternal interplay between the sexes. And Stroman is a storyteller whose passions breathe life into whatever she does. Michael Kaiser has an extraordinary ability to restore life to flailing arts organizations. "What is the key to Michael's success?" Claudette Donlon asked. "He will tell you that it requires confident leadership and investment in artistic initiative, marketing, new sources of earned and contributed income, and an optimism built on a solid strategic plan." But, she continued, "What is truly at the heart of Michael's success is Michael himself, his compassion and passion for the performing arts and the artists themselves." |
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