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* DORIS DUKE DOLLARS GIVEN TO DANCE 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. has selected Twyla Tharp, Meredith Monk, Eiko & Koma (right), Martha Clarke, John Jasperse, and David Dorfman as recipients of its second annual Doris Duke Awards for New Work for modern choreographers. Tharp and Monk each receive $100,000; Eiko & Koma and Clarke $40,000; and Jasperse and Dorfman $15,000. * BOSTON DANCERS IN SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia Classical Ballet's LIFECHANCE will include performances by Boston Ballet's Jennifer Gelfand and Yuri Yanowsky (pictured), as well as Patrick Armand, Viktor Plotnikov, Pollyana Ribeiro, Reagan Messer, Simon Ball, Larissa Ponomarenko, April Ball, Zachary Hench, and Lyn Tally. A fund-raiser for the children's charity The Nurturing Center, the event will take place January 23 at the Koger Center. * PEOPLE IN THE NEWS In addition to being elected second vice president of Dance Masters of America this summer, dance teacher Lee Garrard, owner of Lee's School of Dance in Butler, Pennsylvania, has three former students performing professionally--in three very different productions. Garrard was in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. last fall to see student Michelle Vargo, a former Junior Miss Dance of America, dance with the Metropolitan Opera, Former student Michelle Pawk is dancing in Cabaret, and Brandy Johnson is in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is an annual show that is held at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Myrtle Beach is a city and in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. It is part of the Grand Strand, a stretch of beaches along the South Carolina coastline, and the combined Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach MSA. .... "Many people can dance, but few can teach and communicate as Bob Fosse could," said Ann Reinking, accepting the Document of Dance Award from the Dance Library of Israel on October 25. "He was generous and giving in all his work. And I discovered that the performance is not only for the theater, but reaches out into the community. I learned that it is important to give back." * DANCE BUILDINGS The 1996 renovation of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House earned a 1998 National Preservation Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.... The Lille Opera House in France closed in July 1998 for two years of renovation.... Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago is the largest arts and communications college in the United States[1] Founded in 1890, the school is located in the South Loop of Chicago. purchased a 33,000-square-foot building that will be renovated to create a new home for the presenting organization the Dance Center, the college's dance department, and Mordine & Company Dance Theatre.... The opening of the restored 2,500-seat Allen Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square Center The Playhouse Square Center, in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, is the second-largest theater complex in the United States (second only to New York City's Lincoln Center).[2] brings the total number of seats in the historic center to 9,500.... The American Harlequin flooring company broke ground last fall on a new facility in Moorestown, New Jersey, scheduled to be completed in February 1999. * DANCESPORT READIES FOR PRIME TIME It will still take more than just fancy footwork to get to the Olympics. However, ballroom dance, now called dancesport, will be seen as an exhibition in the year 2000 and as a planned medal event at the 2008 Games. More than 200 colleges and universities have offered dancesport on a competitive and social basis for several years. And the 1,200 elementary and middle school youngsters in New York City classrooms, who began ballroom dance as a study for its physical, social, and psychological benefits, now have a new goal--Olympic gold. [See Teacher Talk, October 1998.] Manufacturers, aware of the number of recent social dance--related movies, such as Shall We Dance? and Dance with Me, as well as the revenue possibilities of anything Olympics-related, are designing new collections of ballroom dance--related items. Capezio[R]/Ballet Makers has created a new group of stylish shoes and sweeping rehearsal skirts with dancesport in mind. With nine years to go, there is plenty of time for everyone to rehearse waltzing away with the gold. * DANCE MAGAZINE'S WEB SITE: www.dancemagazine.com includes issue highlights, the performance calendar, a photo gallery, and Web site exclusives. * HIRINGS AND PROMOTIONS Jean-Albert Cartier was elected president of UNESCO's Conseil International de la Danse, succeeding Milorad Miskovitch.... Louis Robitaille is the new artistic director of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal.... April Ball, Marjorie Grundvig, and Tara Hench have been promoted to soloist at Boston Ballet, and principal dancers Aleksandra Koltun and Adriana Suarez have returned to the company.... Stacey Shiori Minagawa was made second soloist at National Ballet of Canada National Ballet of Canada, the leading Canadian ballet company. Based in Toronto, it was founded (1951) by Celia Franca (1921–2007) and modeled on Sadler's Wells (now the Royal Ballet). .... Colorado Ballet has hired four new dancers: Hesen Weirun, Vitali Prokhnitski, Dimitri Trubchanov, and Lee Clayton.... Carlos Dos Santos, Jr., Alicia Stewart, Carlos Venturo, and Siobhain Mosley have joined Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble.... David Taylor Dance Theatre has hired Corey Colfer, Gabriel Chajnik, Troy Bowles, Richard Comstock, Guoqiang Li, Michael Johnson, Heather McNabb, Sara Kappraff, Margaret Tappan, Sara Rifkin, and Rachel Whiting.... Ballet Theatre of Annapolis has engaged Zhirui Zou, formerly of National Ballet of China The National Ballet of China (NBC), or the Central Ballet Troupe as known in China, headquartered in Beijing, was founded on December 31, 1959, and is the only national ballet troupe of the country. .... Nevada Ballet Theatre has hired Kyu Dong Kwak as a principal dancer and Dereck Michael Townsend as a soloist.... Columbia City Ballet has hired Anton Labuschagne as a principal dancer.... Garrett Ammon, Eric Harris, Konstantin Kouzin, Eric Roberts, and Scoff Trumbo have joined Oregon Ballet Theatre Oregon Ballet Theatre is the premiere ballet company for the state of Oregon. The company is the result of the 1992 merging of Ballet Oregon and Pacific Ballet Theater. James Canfield, formerly a dancer with Joffrey Ballet as well as a principal dancer for Pacific Ballet Theater, .... Zuri Goldman has been hired by Ohio Ballet.... Jodi Allen, Ali Fischer, James Healy, Michael Mizerany, and Amy Beth Patton have signed on with Malashock Dance & Company. * ADMINISTRATION The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago has appointed Jack R. Lemmon executive director.... State Ballet of Missouri has hired Jeffrey J. Bentley as executive director.... San Jose Cleveland Ballet has named Andrew Bales executive director.... Vanessa A. Thomas is the new managing director at Philadanco.... Edward Downing is the new president at Interlochen Center for the Arts  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . .... Dancing in the Streets has hired Aviva Davidson as executive director and producer. * PRINCESS GRACE AWARDS WINNERS: Houston Ballet's Yin Le, American Ballet Theatre's Gillian Murphy, Martha Graham Dance Company's Jennifer DePalo, Maria Bystrova of the Kirov Academy of Ballet The Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington, D.C. is a ballet school that serves students in grades 7 through 12 and offers a high school diploma in addition to its dance instruction. It was founded in 1990 by Rev. , and Philip Colucci of the Juilliard School received Princess Grace Awards for young dancers in a ceremony October 29 in New York City. Pictured, HRH HRH abbr. Her (or His) Royal Highness HRH Her (or His) Royal Highness HRH abbr (= His (or Her) Royal Highness) → S.A.R. Prince Albert of Monaco and Bystrova. |
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