David White Captures the Capezio Award.WHEN DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. Randolph White hears his name called at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Joyce Theater The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a on Monday, April 17, he will be no stranger to that stage. That night he receives the prestigious Capezio Dance Award, established by Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation in 1952 to increase public awareness of dance and to honor those who contribute significantly to the art in America Art in America, published since 1913, is an illustrated monthly art magazine covering the visual art world both in the US and abroad, but concentrating on New York City. . The award will be presented as part of Dance Theater Workshop's thirty-fifth anniversary year celebration. A former dancer, musician, and filmmaker, White is celebrating his twenty-fifth year as DTW's executive director and producer. It was only last September 24 that White was onstage at the Joyce to host the fifteenth annual Bessies (the New York Dance and Performance Awards, sponsored by the Village Voice and named for teacher and mentor Bessie Schonberg Varley [1906--1997]), which he was instrumental in conceiving and implementing. These awards go to a diverse cross-section of work created by independent artists in the performing arts community, including a wide range of works seen in smaller, alternative spaces. "You either produce artists or you produce work," White was quoted as saying in DTW DTW Dynamic Time Warping DTW Dance Theatre Workshop (New York, NY) DTW Depth to Water (denotes depth to water in monitoring wells) DTW DoDIIS Trusted Workstation DTW Development Technology Workshop : The First Sixty Years, a retrospective and future-facing book published in 1998 for Dance Theater Workshop Dance Theater Workshop is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located on West 19th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. . "At DTW, we produce artists. Artists produce work." The statement represents the overriding concerns and mission of DTW and its many associated activities: Danspace Project, the Bessie Schonberg Theater; Fresh Tracks, and First Light for emerging choreographers; Public Imaginations, Family Matters, and On the Bus for the larger community; National Performance Network, the International Suitcase Fund, and New York Dance Force. And always, the central concern has been to nurture the artists, young and mature. No stranger to award ceremonies, David White has been given New York mayor's and governor's arts awards; the 1987 Dance Magazine Award; the 1989 Village Voice Obie Award; the 1991 Fannie Taylor Award of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters A performing arts presenting organization is an organization, or department or program of a larger organization, that works to facilitate exchanges between artists and audiences through creative, educational, and performance opportunities. ; and a 1995 Japan Foundation arts fellowship. He will receive a Dance/USA Honor in San Francisco in June, 2000. White joins previous Capezio Award luminaries such as Lincoln Kirstein (1953), Sol Hurok (1959), Harvey Lichtenstein (1983), John Martin (1969), Walter Terry (1980), Doris Hering (1985), Martha Graham (1960), Lucia Chase (1968), Arthur Mitchell (1971), Merce Cunningham (1977), Maria Tallchief (1965), Paul Taylor (1967), and Edward Villella (1989). The winners are elected by trustees from a list of nominations submitted by national advisors in the performing arts. Foundation trustees are Donald Terlizzi, Nicholas P. Terlizzi, Jr., Robert M. Carr, and Anthony Giacoio. Jane Remer is executive director. The award consists of an engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. Baccarat baccarat (bä`kərä', băk`–, Fr. bäkärä`), French card game formerly widely played in European casinos but now supplanted in popularity by chemin de fer. crystal trophy and a $10,000 cash gift. Since its establishment in 1952, the Foundation has awarded more than $4 million in grants and awards to organizations and individuals in the dance community. |
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