PEOPLE AND COMPANIES IN THE NEWS.The fourteenth annual International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference will be held January 18-21, 2001, in San Diego; call 610/266-7105 or visit www.virtuallyblack.com/dance for registration and more information ... Dancer-choreographer Susan Marshall has won a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship; the artistic director of Susan Marshall and Company will receive $500,000, paid over five years ... The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone awarded 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. a $2.3 million grant in September ... Italian ballerina Alessandra Ferri is expecting her second child in March 2001; in October, she joined the Hamburg Ballet in The Lady of the Camellias, but cancelled subsequent season appearances ... International master teacher Pattie Obey received this year's Jazz Dance World Congress Award at the conference, held in August in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ... Chicago-based company Jan Eckert & Dancers called it quits in October after a twenty-year run; though the company has described itself as financially fit, the board of directors made the decision following Eckert's announcement that she would pursue independent projects ... Dame Alicia Markova, whose ascent to fame began with Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, celebrates her ninetieth birthday on December 1 ... 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. School director David Holladay has resigned; he will leave in February 2001, and a national search for his replacement is under way ... The Joffrey Ballet School/New School University has appointed Rebecca Wright, former director of the Adelphi University Dance Program, and a former Joffrey dancer, as chair of its program. In September, Wright took over from founding chair Kathryn Posin, who will remain on the faculty ... Philanthropist Henry T. Segerstrom has donated $40 million toward the Orange County Performing Arts Center's $200 million capital campaign for the construction of a concert hall and music theater, to be named after Segerstrom and his late wife ... Sylvia Waters celebrates her twenty-fifth anniversary as artistic director of Alvin Ailey II on December 5, during the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's annual City Center season 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. ... Welz Kauffman, former director of artistic planning for the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. History Founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. , was appointed president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Ravinia Festival, an Illinois-based international performing arts festival, effective October 1 ... DancePlace, the official school of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. Dance Theatre, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte now offer a program that enables college students to earn an undergraduate certificate in ballet and to train, rehearse and perform with the company while they pursue a university degree ... Princeton Ballet School, the official school of New Jersey's American Repertory Ballet, has opened a new facility and added 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. principal Kyra Nichols to its faculty ... Oregon-based choreographer Gary Palmer won a Fulbright grant to teach and create new ballets on El Ballet Nacional de Peru in Lima during the 2000-01 academic year ... A sixtieth birthday party and tribute concert for dance stage manager Maxine Glorsky, with performances by 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. , the White Oak Dance Project and many others, was held in September at New York's Joyce Theater ... Osceola Bragg, founder and artistic director of the former Fourteenth Street Y (now the Sol Goldman YM-YWHA), was honored for her life's work at a September performance in the newly renamed facility. This year Bragg was named managing director of American Repertory Ballet ... The School of American Ballet The School of American Ballet is located in New York City, in Lincoln Center. It is considered one of the most prestigious and notable ballet schools in the United States and teaches some of the most talented young dancers in the country. gave its 2000 Mae L. Wien Award for Distinguished Service to SAB teacher Marina Stavitskaya and its Mae L. Wien Awards for Outstanding Promise to dancers Ashley Bouder, Glenn Keenan, Amar Ramasar and Andrew Veyette ... Michigan's MoreDances Contemporary Dance Company named founding company member Janet Clayton as artistic director in September ... Prometheus Dance of Massachusetts recently won a $12,500 Artist Grant in Choreography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council ... The George Balanchine Foundation has opened new offices, expanded its projects agenda and appointed dance technology specialist Leslie Hansen Kopp, formerly of the dance documentation organization Preserve, Inc., as general administrator ... Pennsylvania Ballet has added four new dancers to its roster: soloist Jonas Lundquist (Finnish National Ballet), 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. member Harly Rowe and apprentices Sara Edery and Jennifer Gall. Apprentice Philip Colucci was promoted to the corps de ballet. Send Presstime press·time n. The time at which a publication, especially a newspaper, is submitted for printing. News items to Associate Editor Heather Wisner, 111 Myrtle St., Suite 203, Oakland, CA 94607-2597, fax to 510/839-6066 or email to hwisner@dancemagazine.com. Include the sender's name, address, phone number and email address. Deadline is twelve weeks prior to issue. (Deadline for March issue is December 5.) |
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