PEOPLE AND COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.The site of Jacob's Pillow, America's oldest dance festival, has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places This article is about the U.S. Register. For the National Register of Historic Places in Canada see Canadian Register of Historic Places. The National Register of Historic Places ... In May, Alvin Ailey dancers appeared on Sesame Street to help kids across the country understand how emotions can be shown in movement ... The deadline for submitting possible entries for New York's thirtieth Dance On Camera Festival is August 15. For more information, visit www.dancefilmsassn.org or call 212/727-0764 ... Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the oldest and largest lesbian and gay legal organization, honored Bill T. Jones with a Liberty Award in May for his tireless activism and commitment to telling personal stories of those affected by the HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic ... Nevada Ballet Theatre received $250,000 from the E.L. Wiegand Foundation for an all-new production of The Nutcracker ... The Juilliard School awarded Mark Morris an honorary doctorate on May 25 ... Pacific Northwest Ballet The Pacific Northwest Ballet is a ballet company and based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its current name in 1978. Artistic Director Kent Stowell, a Utah native, received a lifetime achievement award from the University of Utah The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. in April ... Ohio's Dayton Ballet Association received $400,000 from the Mathile Family Foundation. The money brings DTA closer to its goal of raising $3 to $5 million to fund ten to fifteen new, full-length American ballets over the next twenty to thirty years ... The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Surdna Foundation plan to jointly invest more than $16 million over the next five years to support institutions that train gifted performing arts students. This year's recipients include Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation, California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , 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. , and Baltimore School for the Arts Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA) is a public high school located in Baltimore, Maryland and is a part of its public school system. BSFA offers concentrations in classical music, theater, dance, theater production and visual art. ... The Council of Organized Researchers for Pedagogical Studies (CORPS) de Ballet International will honor ballerina and teacher Violette Verdy for her lifetime contribution to dance as part of their 2001 conference, which will be held July 30-August 1 in Seattle ... Cuban-born Xiomara Reyes, previously with Royal Ballet of Flanders, has joined ABT as a soloist ... Clara Blanco will join the San Francisco Ballet's corps next season ... Atlanta Ballet dancer Thomas Shoemaker starts as ballet master of Georgia's Augusta Ballet this month. |
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