PEOPLE & COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.A MEMORIAL FOR dancer-choreographer Anna Sokolow (see Dance Magazine, July 2000, page 50) will be held at 8 P.M. Sept. 14 at the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., 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. . RSVP to Players' Project at (212) 966-5621.... The National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance has awarded grants to three institutions that submitted promising models for documenting and preserving dance. The White Oak Project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received $115,000; The Kitchen, New York, received $135,000, and Atlatl atlatl (ät`lätəl) [Nahuatl], device used to throw a spear with greater propulsion. Atlatls began to be used in the Americas in the post-Pleistocene period and were eventually replaced by the bow and arrow. , Inc., Phoenix, Arizona, received $150,000. Additionally, NIPAD-UCLA National Dance/Media Fellowship Program members Valida Carroll, Pooh Kaye, Linda Lewett and Mitchell Rose won money to continue their documentation studies.... Robert de Warren, artistic director of Florida's Sarasota Ballet, has announced that the Fourth International Choreography Competition will be held Feb. 2-5 in Sarasota. The closing date for entries is Sept. 15, 2000; for applications and more information, call (941) 359-0099, ext. 110.... Tony Award-nominated choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett has accepted a five-season invitation from Carolina Ballet to serve as principal guest choreographer; she will create a new work each season, and the April 2001 show will be an all-Taylor-Corbett program.... The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company appointed Julia Blackburn as executive director, effective in July. Blackburn had served as executive director of Ohio's BalletMet prior to her appointment.... Utah's Ballet West has promoted Michiyo Hayashi to principal artist, Leslie Ann Larson to senior soloist, and Heather Colledge, Seth Olson, Tonia Stefiuk and Anne Breneman to members of the corps de ballet corps de bal·let n. The dancers in a ballet troupe who perform as a group. [French : corps, corps + de, of + ballet, ballet. .... Pilobolus was honored with the Samuel H. Scripps 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. Award June 18 at North Carolina's Duke University, just after performing their ADF-commissioned world premiere Duet.... North Carolina School of the Arts The North Carolina School of the Arts is a well known arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was the first state-supported, residential school of its kind in the nation. has added alumna Christine Spizzo, a former American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. soloist and Phantom of the Opera Broadway cast member, to its teaching faculty.... At Philadelphia company Philadanco's recent performance at the Joyce Theater, artistic director Joan Myers Brown announced that dancer Hope Boykin was moving to Alvin Ailey. Brown also gave dancer Kim Y. Bears an award for her nineteen years of service to the company.... Derek Deane, artistic director of the English National Ballet English National Ballet, founded in 1950 as the "Festival Ballet" inspired by the then imminent Festival of Britain, is one of the leading ballet companies in the United Kingdom founded by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, with the financial backing of Polish impresario Julian , and former Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Sulamith Messerer were awarded the Order of the British Empire at Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Honors celebration, held June 2 in London.... The Association of Performing Arts Presenters named Sandra Gibson as president and chief executive officer, effective in July. Gibson had most recently served as chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. and executive vice president for Americans for the Arts Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in the United States. They describe themselves as being dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the .... The first Mia Arbatova Mediterranean Ballet Competition ended with a gala performance May 13 in Tel Aviv, Israel; an international panel of judges awarded prizes to Serhat Gudul (Turkey), Lydiya Rotterdamskaya (Israel), Maria Mpoubouli (Greece), Olga Tzimourta (Greece), Nadia Tarasov (Israel), and Shorena Haindrava (Israel).... Dancers Responding to AIDS, a division of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, presents the Second Annual Jazz Festival Artists Excellence Awards in April 2001. The Elan Awards, as they are called, go to emerging choreographers.... The University of Minnesota's Barbara A. Barker Center for Dance was a finalist in the Minnesota American Consulting Engineers Council's Excellence Awards for 2000.... In Virginia, Richmond Ballet celebrates its move to a new facility with a parade and Mardi Gras-style festival Sept. 23.... Leah Kreutzer kreu·zer or kreut·zer n. Any of several small coins of low value formerly used in Austria and Germany. [German, from Middle High German kriuzer, from kriuze, , artistic director of the New Jersey company LKB Dance, has won an Individual Artist Fellowship for choreography from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts The New Jersey State Council on the Arts was founded in 1966 to support artistic activities in the state of New Jersey. It is funded by the New Jersey State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). . The grant was applied to the completion of a new postmodern work, Soup/Fish.... School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet is located in New York City, in Lincoln Center. It is considered one of the most prestigious and notable ballet schools in the United States and teaches some of the most talented young dancers in the country. president Larry Alan Smith has resigned to take a composition professorship with the Hartt School at Connecticut's Hartford University.... The 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). has promoted Sonia Rodriguez to principal dancer, Stacey Shiori Minagawa to first soloist, and Stephanie Hutchison, Guillaume Cote, Matjash Mrozewski and Jeremy Nasmith to second soloists.... The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County has formed the Center Dance Association, a new support group dedicated to bringing dance programming and educational dance-related activities to the Center. Liane Weintraub, chair of the organizing committee, inaugurated group activities with a master class and rehearsal with American Ballet Studio Theater Company, an evening with Bolshoi Ballet principal dancer Nina Ananiashvili, and the premiere of the Bolshoi's new Don Quixote.... Daniel Duell, School of Ballet Chicago's director, taught Balanchine technique to ballet students in Warsaw, Poland, this spring at the invitation of the Warsaw Ballet School, which sent a student back to Chicago to study with Duell.... Merce Cunningham will be honored with the 2000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize--a silver medallion and $250,000--for his artistic contributions. The award ceremony will be held Oct. 18 at New York's Hudson Theater... The Parsons Dance Company will replace the embattled Martha Graham Dance Company in the UCLA Performing Arts 2000-01 season, which opens in October. |
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