Fetes its own.CONSIDER the irony: A work celebrating the impermanence im·per·ma·nent adj. Not lasting or durable; not permanent. im·per  ma·nence, im·per of dance, Loretta Livingston's Leaving (Evidence), captured the most honors--four--at the thirteenth annual Lester Horton Lester Horton (January 23, 1906 - November 2, 1953) was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.Lester Horton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Choosing to work in California (three thousand miles away from the center of modern dance - New York City), Horton Dance Awards, cementing the choreographer-performer's place in the terpsichorean history of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Named after West Coast modern dance pioneer Lester Norton, the awards, which were given April 18 at the George and Sakaye Aratani/Japan American Theatre, are voted on by the membership of Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles, the locally based service organization that presents the event. Punctuated by eloquent speeches, archival film segments, and live performances, the night again proved that dance is a necessary good. Livingston, in addition to snagging awards for long-form choreography and best female performance, was visibly moved when her troupe, Loretta Livingston & Dancers, earned best performance by a company, while composer Robin Cox Robin Cox is an American composer and violinist. He is also the director and founder of the Robin Cox Ensemble http://www.robincoxensemble.com. Cox studied at the University of Texas at Austin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Miami with composers Leslie took home the honors for musical score. Modern dance continued to dominate with Laura Gorenstein Miller's Helios Dance Theater The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German expressionist dance. Its most influential performers are Pina Bausch and Susanne Linke. and Rosanna Gamson/World Wide racking up two awards each: A luminous Maria Gillespie (she also performed) and Stephane Nicoli won for small ensemble performance in Helios' The Quickening, and Lucas Reiner copped a Horton for set design. Johnny Tu, recognized for his work in Gamson's Two Views (an urban ocean has 29 eyes), earned best male performance award, and Gamson netted a Horton for her revival of 1997's Again Not Again. Other awards went to Patrick Damon Rago, in short form choreography (Four Inches to the Left), and Eileen Cooley, in lighting design (Guran). Anna Djanbazian received the costume design Costume design is the design of the appearance of the characters in a theater or cinema performance. This usually involves designing or choosing clothing, footwear, hats and head dresses for the actors to wear, but it may also include designing masks, makeup or other unusual forms, award for What Is Inside Every Woman, with Arsineh Ananian performing Djanbazian's 2002 award-winning solo, Memento (An Uzbek Dance). The Horton for outstanding production of a festival or series went to the Ford Amphitheatre List of Ford Amphitheatres
Special category Hortons saw Douglas Nielsen humbly accept the excellence in teaching award front his first instructor, the choreographer-educator Donald McKayle. Debbie Allen, just back from Beirut, was honored for furthering the visibility of dance, Danielle Brazell received a service to the field award for her indefatigable producing endeavors, and the new innovator award went to Hassan Christopher for his twenty-first century approach to blending dance with text. Postmodern icon Simone Forti--part earth goddess, part leprechaun leprechaun (lĕp`rəkŏn), Irish fairy represented as a tiny old man. Leprechauns are mischievous and elusive creatures, said to possess buried crocks of gold, the location of which they will reveal if forced. , and now in her seventh decade--graciously accepted the lifetime achievement award, and vowed to keep working. |
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