IZZYS RECOGNIZE BAY AREA ARTISTS.Every year the Bay Area dance community recognizes its own with the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards ceremonies. This year's "Izzy" Awards, which recognized contributions to the 1997-98 dance season, were given out during a ceremony at Yerba Buena yerba buena (yĕr`bə bwā`nə), trailing evergreen perennial (Micromeria chamissonis) of the family Labiatae (mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to woodland areas along the Pacific coast. Center for the Arts. The Izzy for best individual performance went to San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Ballet's Lucia Lacarra for her role as the man-eating Amazonian in Jerome Robbins's The Cage. That production also won SFB SFB Sonderforschungsbereich SFB Sender Freies Berlin (German Radio and TV Station) SFB Star Fleet Battles (game) SFB San Francisco Ballet SFB Society for Biomaterials SFB ScaleFactor Band an Izzy for best revival/reconstruction. SFB also received the award for best company performance of Othello. The Izzy for best choreography went to Keith Hennessy, Jules Beckman, and Jess Curtis, who recently relocated to France, for Ice/Car/Cage; this work was also recognized for best visual design: sets. Other awards for visual design went to Raquel Lopez (costumes) of El Cuadro Flamenco and Joe Williams (lighting) for his contribution to the Sky Dancers Sky Dancers were a toy marketed by Galoob Toys between 1994 and 2000. Galoob was purchased by Hasbro in 1998. The dolls themselves were pre-posed ballerina characters made of molded plastic, about the size of a Barbie Doll, and had foam wings attached permanently to their Evening at Brady Street. The a cappella a cap·pel·la adv. Music Without instrumental accompaniment. [Italian : a, in the manner of + cappella, chapel, choir.] Adj. 1. group SoVoSo won the Izzy for music for their score to Robert Moses's Mother May I; Kim Epifano and Rafael Vargas Benita won for text and sound of Calida Fornax. Dancers' Group executive director Wayne Hazzard dressed as Shirley MacLaine (spokesperson for this year's National Dance Week) to give the two Izzys for ensemble performances to Robert Moses This is about the urban planner; for other uses, see Robert Moses (disambiguation). Robert Moses (December 18 1888 - July 29 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County. , Joe Venegoni, and Dan Reiter for Untitled Solo #4; and Shannon Mitchell and Kevin Ware for KT Nelson's On the Loose. This year's awards for sustained achievement went to educators David Wood and Marni Thomas Wood; the Zellerbach Family Fund; and philanthropists Chris and F. Warren Hellman. Patrick Makuakane received a special Izzy for his full-length The World According to Hula hula, traditional Hawaiian dance usually performed standing with symbolically descriptive arm and hand movements and gracefully sensual undulations of the hips; it is also done in a sitting position. , in which his company Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu evokes both contemporary And ancient Hawaiian culture. Hotline was reported by Horst Koegler (Germany), Rita Felciano (Izzys and Summerfest), Wilma Salisbury (Poll), Karyn Bauer (Dupond), Marene Gustin (Houston). |
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