PEOPLE AND COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.National Performance Network, a coalition of artists and presenters that helps contemporary performing artists tour nationally and works to set standards for national cultural policy, received a $1.45 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in December. The money will be used to supplement existing programs and implement new ones. NPN (1) See new public network. (2) (Negative Positive Negative) See PN junction. also named M. K. Wegmann president and chief executive officer. Wegmann has served as NPN board president and interim director ... Dance Connecticut has been awarded a $40,800 grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to support long-term institutional planning ... The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) is an agency serving the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Established in 1966, its mission is "to foster the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts gave $34,000 to the central state's only professional modern dance repertory company, Pennsylvania Dance Theatre. The funding will aid home season activities and state tours ... Fabian Barnes, a former Dance Theatre of Harlem Dance Theatre of Harlem, the first black classical ballet company. The group was founded in Harlem, New York City, by Arthur Mitchell, then of the New York City Ballet, the first black principal dancer of a classical company of international standing. dancer and founder of the Dance Institute of Washington, received a $100,000 Use Your Life award from Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network. The DIW brings dance education to underserved communities in the Washington, D.C., area. The award, which Barnes accepted on Winfrey's television talk show in early December, will fund scholarships allowing even more students to participate ... Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is an American professional ballet company based in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. History In 1965 Yugoslavian choreographer Nicolas Petrov joined the dance faculty at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. principal dancer Ying Li has received $15,000 as the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's 2000 Creative Achievement Award recipient ... Toronto's Citytv, which has been covering The National Ballet of Canada's performances for a decade and a half, recently donated raw footage of the company collected over the last fifteen years to the company's archives ... The International Dance Council will hold a congress, "Dance in the World Today," in conjunction with its general assembly meeting June 27-29 in Paris. Check the council's Web site at www.unesco.org/ngo/cid for more information . . . April 1 is the application deadline for the Shanghai International Ballet Competition, which will be held August 12-19. Application forms are available online at www.chinaballet.com/english/applicationform.htm ... Ballet Society Hanover's fifteenth International Choreographic Competition will be held June 9 and 10. Dancers and choreographers must submit videos by April 21. More information is available online at www.choreographenwettbewerb.de ... Gianni Di Marco Gianni di Marco was a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was played by Marc Bannerman. Gianni arrived in Walford along with the rest of the di Marco family in 1998. , Brenda Divelbliss, Ahmet Luleci and Collage International Dance Ensemble, Tommy Neblett and Dianne Arvanites-Noya of Prometheus Dance Company, and Seth Rishkin and Mia Keinanen received commissions to create a world-premiere work for Boston audiences in Dance Umbrella's annual commissioning competition, Boston Moves . . . Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet has selected four choreographers for "Choreoplan 2001," which gives young choreographers the opportunity to create works on a company of well-trained classical dancers. This year's recipients are Armando Luna, director of the School of Atlanta Ballet; Amy Seiwert, grand-prize winner of Montreal's Festival des Arts de St-Sauveur Choreographic Competition; Christopher Stowell, dancer and choreographer with the San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet, or SFB, is a San Francisco, USA based ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, where it is directed by Helgi Tomasson. ; and Deanna Carter, ballet mistress for Leipzig Ballet in Germany . . . Abi Stafford, a New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. corps member, is the company's first Janice Levin Dancer. The new honor will be bestowed annually on one of the most promising young members of NYCB's 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. by Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins ... The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the name by which it is known, (or, as named on the building itself, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts but, locally called the The Kennedy Center honored Jacques d'Amboise's commitment to young people in December with a tribute that featured George Stevens Jr. and children from the National Dance Institute. Mr. d'Amboise started the institute, which brings dance to thousands of schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school each year, while he was still a principal dancer with the NYCB ... 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. principal dancer Leslie Browne will give master classes and lectures as part of Dance Connecticut's Masters Series. Browne will be teaching in Hartford March 9-11 ... In December, the Dance Space Center in Manhattan presented An Evening of Dance in Memory of Elizabeth Pape. Ten choreographers donated works and all performance proceeds went to the Elizabeth Pape Scholarship Fund. Pape performed with Bebe Miller, Eun Me Ahn and Kevin Wynn, among others ... Patricia T. Smalley was named Dance Theatre of Harlem's chief executive officer in November. She was formerly director of the American Academy in Berlin, where she created opportunities for U.S.-German cultural and educational exchange ... Choreographers Dan Froot and Victoria Marks have twin baby boys. Milo Jem and Emmett Bay Marks Froot were born on October 10 ... North Carolina Dance Theatre's artistic director, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, will continue to be responsible for artistic programming in his new expanded role as executive director. Carl Powell, who has been serving as interim executive director, will be managing director ... The Cincinnati Ballet's Joy Detherage was promoted to soloist ... Frank Augustyn has been appointed director of the dance program at Adelphi University. He was a principal dancer with 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). and has served as artistic director of the Ottawa Ballet and Le Gala des Etoiles in Montreal ... Spoleto Festival USA
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