PEOPLE AND COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.
The dance world is bedecked with Guggenheim Fellows this year. Janice L. Ross, Dance Magazine correspondent and dance history lecturer at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. , was one of two dance scholars to win. She'll use her fellowship to finish a biography of Anna Halprin. There were four choreography fellows, including Leigh Witchel, founder of Dance as Ever, a ballet company Noun 1. ballet company - a company that produces ballets
troupe, company - organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" in Manhattan. He's the first classical ballet-maker to win in a decade ... Performance artist and choreographer John Kelly John Kelly or Jack Kelly is the name of: People
- John Kelly of Killanne (died 1798), leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 in Wexford
- John Kelly (U.S. politician) (1822–1886), politician in Tammany Hall, U.S.
won a $50,000 CalArts/Alpert Award ... nicholasleichterdance in Manhattan received $25,000 from the Jerome Foundation to support new work. David Gordon's Pick Up Performance Company received $12,000 ... Garth Fagan won this year's $35,000 Samuel Scripps/American Dance Festival Award, which goes to modern dance choreographers for lifetime achievement ... The application deadline for the annual Choo-San Goh choreography awards is August 10. Call 562/424-3929 for more information ... The Bay Area's Footage Dance Film Festival seeks entries. The deadline is September 1. Call 415/454-3564 ... Prima Ballerina Assoluta Eva Evdokimova-Gregori will teach at the Cecchetti Society USA's International Summer School, held August 5-11 at the Sarasota Ballet in Florida ... Christopher Wheeldon has been named resident choreographer for 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. ... Sally Ann Isaacks, principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet Miami City Ballet was created in 1986 with former New York City Ballet principal dancer Edward Villella helming the company. The Miami City Ballet flourishes as one of America's most respected Balanchine-style based ballet companies. and a company member for fifteen years, has retired ... The Pennsylvania Ballet's Portia Maria Jones also retired after fifteen years with PB ... American dancer Michael Shannon has joined the U.K.'s Birmingham Royal Ballet The Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the UK's foremost ballet companies, based at the Birmingham Hippodrome in Birmingham, where it enjoys custom-built facilities such as the Jerwood Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Dance Injuries and the as principal dancer. He was previously with the Vienna State Opera Ballet The Vienna State Opera Ballet, like the opera company, is based at the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria. External links
- Vienna State Opera Ballet -- Dance Magazine
- "The Merry Widow" review -- Vienna State Opera Ballet -- Dance Magazine
... Houston Ballet principal dancers Barbara Bears, Dawn Scannell, and Kathryn Warakomsky retired. Julie Gumbinner (who appeared on Dance Magazine's cover last December) and David Makhateli are now principals, and Tyann Clement, Fernando Moraga, Lucas Priolo, and Sara Webb have been promoted to soloist.
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