PEOPLE AND COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.

Former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Eleanor D'Antuono has rejoined the New York International Ballet Competition as artistic director, a post she last held in 1996. Freelance choreographer Jennifer Roth has signed on as associate director of the competition, which will be held at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall June 5-25 -- Christina Yang has been appointed media director at Manhattan interdisciplinary art space The Kitchen, where she will oversee the Kitchen Archive and the Kitchen Video Collection, which includes footage from past dance performances -- The Peoria Ballet, the Joel Hall Dancers, and Muntu Dance Theater all performed new works at the dance-themed Illinois Governor's Awards for the Arts, held in November -- The Capezio[TM]/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation has named Michael Terlizzi and Lawrence Freedman as trustees to its philanthropic organization -- Fountainhead Tanz Theatre, directed by former Dance Theater of Harlem principal dancer Gayle Mc Kinney Griffith and modern dancer Donald Griffith, is producing the Black International Cinema Festival in Berlin this April and May -- Ballet Theatre of Chicago has returned to Chicago following a season in Lexington, Kentucky, where it collaborated with the Lexington Ballet -- the newly formed Dance Connecticut opened its inaugural Nutcracker run with Performing Artservices cofounder Margaret Wood at the helm -- The Actors' Fund of America has expanded its Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center, which is accessible at www.actorsfund.org -- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago celebrates its twentieth anniversary with work by Jiri Kylian, David Parsons, Nacho Duato, Twyla Tharp and others March 28 to April 16 at Chicago's Schubert Theater -- Former Dance USA president Bonnie Brooks has been appointed chair of the dance department at Columbia College Chicago, where she will oversee academic activities and public programming.