Meet Our 2017 Dance Magazine Awardees
What do Fred Astaire, Pina Bausch and Misty Copeland have in common? They are all part of one of the most prestigious groups in dance: the Dance Magazine Award recipients. A tradition that dates back...
View ArticlePress Release: Dance Magazine Announces a New Partnership With The Harkness...
***** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ***** Contact: Nicole Buggé Media Manager Dance Media Publications, LLC nbuggé@dancemedia.com 212-979-4862 Dance Magazine is pleased to announce that the annual Dance...
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2017 Dance Magazine Awards
The Dance Magazine Awards recognize outstanding men and women whose contributions have left a lasting impact on dance. The tradition dates back to 1954. Celebrate this years awardees at the 2017 Dance...
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Dance Magazine Award Honoree: Diana Vishneva
For years, Diana Vishneva seemed to be an exotic creature who landed in New York City: If we held our collective breath long enough, perhaps she wouldn’t fly away. But last June, this Russian...
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Dance Magazine Award Honoree: Linda Celeste Sims
Yes, she’s small, but the word “mighty” doesn’t even begin to get to the root of Linda Celeste Sims’ startling magnetism. She joined Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1996 and now, at 41, it’s as...
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Dance Magazine Award Honoree: Rennie Harris
It makes sense that Dance Magazine long ago dubbed Rennie (Lorenzo) Harris the “high priest of hip hop.” When the often shy, Philadelphia-born choreographer founded his company Rennie Harris...
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Dance Magazine Award Honoree: Marika Molnar
Since George Balanchine first asked her to care for his dancers in the 1980s, Marika Molnar has helped heal icons as varied as Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Natalia Makarova, Judith Jamison, Twyla...
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What Makes the Dance Magazine Awards So Uplifting
Some nights, you head home buzzing with energy. After last night’s Dance Magazine Awards, we were dancing with it. We had the privilege of honoring four legends of our field—Rennie Harris, Marika...
View ArticlePress Release: Dance Magazine Awards 2018 Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Contact: Jonathan Marder + Company Eve Hodgkinson | 212.271.4285 Eve.Hodgkinson@gsmltd.net New York, NY (September 2018) – Misty Copeland will open the 61st annual Dance...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dance Magazine Award Honoree Ronald K. Brown
Choreographer Ronald K. Brown sees himself as a weaver—of movement, but more importantly, of stories. “When I started my company Evidence 33 years ago, I needed to make a space for what I thought of...
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Congratulations to Dance Magazine Award Honoree Crystal Pite
She may not be the first choreographer to claim that movement is her first language, but when Crystal Pite says it, it’s no caveat: She’s as effective and nuanced a communicator as the writers who...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dance Magazine Award Honoree Lourdes Lopez
No, she isn’t like other artistic directors, and that’s not just because she’s a woman. Lourdes Lopez, who’s led Miami City Ballet since 2012, doesn’t want this to be taken the wrong way, but as for...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dance Magazine Award Honoree Michael Trusnovec
Paul Taylor cultivated many brilliant dancers during his 60-plus-year career, but seldom have any commanded such a place of authority and artistry as Michael Trusnovec. He models what it takes to...
View ArticleCongratulations to Dance Magazine Leadership Award Honoree Nigel Redden
General director of Spoleto Festival USA since 1995 and, for two decades (1998-2017), the director of the Lincoln Center Festival, Nigel Redden has an internationalist’s point of view on the...
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Misty Copeland at the Dance Magazine Awards: "Dance Unifies, So Let's Get to...
What does it mean to be human? Well, many things. But if you were at the Dance Magazine Awards last night, you could argue that to be human is to dance. Speeches about the powerful humanity of our art...
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Dance Magazine Award Honoree: Masazumi Chaya
When Masazumi Chaya moved to New York City in 1970, leaving his Japanese homeland behind, he never dreamed he would become one of the longest-serving artists with the Alvin Ailey American Dance...
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Dance Magazine Award Honoree: Angel Corella
When Angel Corella took over as artistic director of Pennsylvania Ballet in 2014, the company underwent a sea change. And while some in the ballet world were shocked by Corella’s vision to...
View ArticleDance Magazine Award Honorees: David Gordon & Valda Setterfield
How to frame two lifetimes of work as broad and vibrant as that of choreographer David Gordon and performer Valda Setterfield? When onstage together, an invisible tether connects them, whether they’re...
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Dance Magazine Award Honoree: Sara Mearns
Sara Mearns is a force. There is a monumentality to her dancing that was apparent even as a young corps member of 19, cast in her first Swan Lake with New York City Ballet. She threw herself into the...
View ArticleDance Magazine Chairman's Award Honoree: Linda Shelton
In an industry that has been clamoring for more female leadership, Linda Shelton, executive director of New York City’s The Joyce Theater Foundation since 1993, has been setting an example for...
View ArticleCongrats to the Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Awardees
All net proceeds from the Dance Magazine Awards ceremony go towards the Harkness Promise Awards, which grant $5,000 and 40 hours of studio space to innovative young choreographers. This year’s...
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The Dance Magazine Awards Celebrate Everything We Love About Dance
What a night. The Dance Magazine Awards yesterday at the Ailey Citigroup Theater was jam-packed with love for dance. From legendary icons to early-career choreographers we can’t stop obsessing over,...
View ArticleDance Magazine Award Honoree: Camille A. Brown
This week we’re sharing tributes to all the 2020 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our virtual ceremony taking place December 7, visit dancemediafoundation.org. Although Camille A. Brown...
View ArticleCelebrating the 2020 Harkness Promise Awards
A partnership between Dance Magazine and the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Harkness Promise Awards recognize choreographers in their first decade of professionally presenting their work. The net...
View ArticlePress Release: 2020 Dance Magazine Award Recipients Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Nicole Buggé nbugge@dancemedia.com (New York, NY) September 21, 2020—Dance Media Foundation (dancemediafoundation.org) in conjunction with Dance Magazine, announced...
View ArticleMeet the 2020 Dance Magazine Award Honorees
Since 1954, Dance Magazine has celebrated the living legends among us with the Dance Magazine Awards. This year, in light of deep reflections on racial equity inspired by the Black Lives Matter...
View ArticleThe 2020 Dance Magazine Awards Celebrated Outstanding Talent, Leadership & Joy
Thank you for celebrating this year’s incredible Dance Magazine Award honorees with us. Watch on demand here. As this year like none other finally draws to a close, I’ve noticed a familiar sentiment...
View ArticleCelebrating the 2021 Harkness Promise Award Honorees: Alethea Pace and Yin Yue
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. A partnership between...
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Celebrating Chairman’s Award Honoree Works & Process
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. Works & Process at...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Andy Blankenbuehler
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. Andy Blankenbuehler got...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Tamara Rojo
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. A former star of The Royal...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Dormeshia
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. If you ask a tap dancer...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Akram Khan
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. Akram Khan shows us what...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Robert Battle
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2021 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to our hybrid ceremony taking place December 6, visit dancemediafoundation.org. Robert Battle once told...
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The 2021 Dance Magazine Awards Illuminated Possibility and Community
Missed the livestream? Get access to the 2021 Dance Magazine Awards on demand here. One of my favorite things about the Dance Magazine Awards has always been the sense of worlds colliding—the way...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2022 Dance Magazine Award Honorees
The Dance Magazine Awards, one of the most prestigious honors in dance, celebrate the living legends who have made a lasting impact on the art form. Established in 1954, Dance Magazine Awards have...
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Honoring Legends in Dance at the 2022 Dance Magazine Awards
The dancers, choreographers and scholars that make up this remarkable group of 2022 Dance Magazine Award honorees are notable not only for their artistry but also for their impact on the field of...
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The 2022 Dance Magazine Awards Celebrated Longevity and Interconnectedness
If there is one thing the 2022 Dance Magazine Awards ceremony made clear, it is how misleading the term “dance lineage” can be. Rather than traveling in a straight line, the connections and community...
View ArticleDance Magazine Award Recipients
2022 Kyle Abraham Lucinda Childs Herman Cornejo Brenda Dixon-Gottschild Dianne McIntyre Chairman’s Award: Jim Herbert Harkness Promise Awards: Johnnie Cruise Mercer and Kayla Farrish 2021 Robert...
View ArticleHere Are the 2023 Dance Magazine Award Honorees
The 2023 Dance Magazine Awards will honor Antoine Hunter, Alicia Graf Mack, Norton Owen, Bijayini Satpathy, and Maria Torres. The Chairman’s Award will be given to Jody Gottfried Arnold; the Harkness...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Bijayini Satpathy
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2023 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 4, visit dancemediafoundation.org. When Bijayini Satpathy dances, the...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Antoine Hunter
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2023 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 4, visit dancemediafoundation.org. “Dance saved my life,” says Antoine...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Alicia Graf Mack
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2023 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 4, visit dancemediafoundation.org. A review of Alicia Graf Mack’s...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Norton Owen
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2023 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 4, visit dancemediafoundation.org. For Norton Owen, the director of...
View ArticleCelebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Maria Torres
This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2023 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 4, visit dancemediafoundation.org. The same energy that crackles in...
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2023 Posthumous Dance Magazine Awards
Founded in 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards have historically only been given to living artists. This year’s new posthumous honors were created to recognize some of the many artists active since 1954...
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The 2023 Dance Magazine Awards Celebrated the Power of Dance to Transcend...
Watching this year’s Dance Magazine Awards ceremony at 92NY (sponsored by 92NY, University of the Arts, and The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation), I was reminded of something Lar Lubovitch...
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