PEOPLE AND COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.Winners of the 1999 ChooSan Goh Awards for Choreography, announced in December, include: Toronto Dance Theatre (choreographer Christopher House); Carolina Ballet (Tyler Walters); Rambert Dance Company The Rambert Dance Company, formerly Ballet Rambert, is a contemporary dance company founded in 1926 by Dame Marie Rambert at the Mercury Theatre in London. Initially founded as a touring ballet company, it was relaunched during the mid-1960s as a contemporary dance company. (Didy Veldman); State Theater Ballet (Sue Kirkland); Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (Alan Hinelan); 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. (David Palmer), and Canada's Ballet Jorgen (Kathleen Rea). Awards support newly choreographed works added to a dance company's repertory ... Gus Giordano, Debbie Allen, Ann Miller, Yuri Grigorovich, and Paul Maure will receive the "First Legends of Dance Award" March 8 at the Torrance, California, Cultural Arts Center ... Royal Winnipeg Ballet The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America. It was founded in 1939 as the "Winnipeg Ballet Club" by Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally. soloist Tara Birtwhistle was named as one of "100 Canadians to Watch" by the December issue of Maclean's magazine. Birtwhistle will make her debut as Juliet in RWB's Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. this season ... San Francisco Ballet announced that the Rudolf Nureyev Dance Foundation has given the company a $100,000 grant to stage the lavish third act of Raymonda in this season's Program Seven, held in April ... The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (founded in 1968) is a dance company based in New York City and founded by Lar Lubovitch in the late 1960s. They have performed at Carnegie Hall, and worldwide. was recently awarded a $150,000 grant from the Irene Diamond Fund to support new work over the next three years, including an as-yet untitled dance created in collaboration with the Royal Danish Ballet Royal Danish Ballet, one of the oldest major ballet companies, established at the opening of Denmark's Royal Theater in Copenhagen in 1748. The company was developed over the centuries by three great masters. and set to Mozart. The piece will premiere in Copenhagen March 25. A second piece, a dance-theater work based on a Grimm's fairy tale, debuts 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. during the 2000-2001 season ... Talia Paz, a dancer with Sweden's Cullberg Ballet, won the 1999 Philip Morris Ballet Flower Award. The prize, 75,000 Swedish crowns, is awarded annually in Stockholm. Paz was honored as a dancer who possesses "a magnetic power on the dance scene." Paz has performed with Tel Aviv's Batsheva Dance Company The Batsheva Dance Company is a highly respected dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel and founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild in 1964, after whom it was named. Ohad Naharin has been its in house choreographer since 1990. and Holland's Scapino Ballet ... The Thirty-Ninth Annual Craft of Choreography Conference presented a Choreography Connection Award to the University of Iowa's Sara Simonis and Dance Magazine scholarships to Rebecca Alaly, Elisabeth Hahn, Laurel Lynch, Kim Ratcliffe, and Emily Farrell ... The Cultural Services of the French Embassy conferred the prestigious Order of Arts and Letters Arts and Letters (1966-1998) was an American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by American sportsman, and noted philanthropist Paul Mellon, and trained by future Hall of Famer Elliott Burch, the colt began racing at age two. medal on modern dance maverick Trisha Brown in January ... Dance/USA has chosen the late Dayton Contemporary Dance Company founder Jeraldyne Blunden and Dance Theater Workshop Dance Theater Workshop is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located on West 19th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. director David R. White as the recipients of the 2000 Dance/USA Honors. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Executive Director John R. Killacky and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American modern dancer Ted Shawn in 1930, and three years later it became the home of his Men director of preservation Norton Owen will receive the Ernie Awards; both sets of awards, which recognize outstanding lifetime contributions to dance, will be presented at the Dance/USA 2000 National Roundtable, held in June in San Francisco ... Evanston Dance Ensemble Artistic Director Bea Rashid recently received the Evanston, Illinois, Mayor's Award for the Arts for her work with children ... The UCLA National Dance/Media Project Fellowship Program announced its year 2000 fellows. They include professional choreographers and film/video artists Pooh Kaye, Eva Lee, Linda Lewett, Judy Lieff, Mitchell Rose, Charlie Steiner, and UCLA World Arts and Culture graduate students Valida Hadzimuratovic-Carroll and Carol Lyn McDowell. Fellows will develop collaborative projects exploring documentation and dance/media experimentation during the ten-week residency ... Colorado's Speaking of Dance company received that state's National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. grant for 2000 ... The San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum named David R. Humphrey as executive director, effective as of last month. Humphrey, an arts education consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts and the former acting director of the Kennedy Center's Education Department, will oversee PALM's extensive performing arts archive ... Dr. Michelle Heffner-Hayes, former artistic director of the Colorado Dance Festival and former modern dance teacher at the University of California's Irvine and Riverside campuses, has been appointed executive director of cultural affairs at Miami-Dade Community College. She will oversee the development of contemporary cultural programs ... Caracas Contemporary Ballet embarks on its first U.S. tour this month, with stops in Atlanta and Manhattan, and performances of artistic director Maria Barros' Three Loves ... The Fourth Annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival is conducting a search for risk-taking performing artists. For an application and more information, browse www.pafringe.com or email pafringedb@aol.com. |
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