The 56th Annual Dance Magazine Awards

The 56th Annual Dance Magazine Awards

NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dance Magazine honors five exceptional artists at The Ailey Citigroup Theater (405 West 55(th) St) in Manhattan on Monday, December 9, 2013. In terms of both genre and geography, these five represent a broad span of excellence: the otherworldly San Francisco Ballet ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan, dance-theater visionary Martha Clarke, Swedish maverick choreographer Mats Ek, Balanchine's allegro ballerina Patricia Wilde, and the composer whose transporting music sends dancers into upper realms, Philip Glass.

This is the first time Dance Magazine is honoring a composer since 1979, when an award went to Aaron Copland.

Christopher Wheeldon will present to Yuan Yuan Tan, Robert Barnett will honor Patricia Wilde, Charles Reinhart will introduce Martha Clarke, Damian Woetzel will present to Philip Glass, and Jorma Elo will speak about Mats Ek.

An excerpt of Clarke's Cheri, which will have opened the night before at Signature Theater, will be performed by Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo. With Cheri, Ferri is making her first stage appearance in the U.S. since she retired from American Ballet Theatre in 2007.

New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder will perform an excerpt of Balanchine's Square Dance in tribute to Wilde.

The evening is open to the public with a reception immediately following in The Ailey Studios. Tickets are available for $50. Contact Ashley Mathus at 212-979-4872 or dmawards@dancemedia.com.

Doors open at 7:00 pm. The program begins at 7:30 pm.

The Dance Magazine Awards are lifetime achievement awards. They recognize the outstanding men and women whose contributions have left a lasting impact on the dance world. The tradition dates back to 1954.

About Dance Magazine

Dance Magazine's editorial mission is to inspire dance students, professionals and educators to excel at the art of dance. Dating back to 1927, Dance Magazine provides insight and practical information as well as in-depth features, news, interviews, and resources.

Dance Magazine is published by DanceMedia, LLC., whose properties include: Dance Magazine®, Dance Spirit®, Dance Teacher®, Pointe®, Dance Retailer News(TM) and associated websites. Properties also include: the all-dance, video, and news website, www.dancemedia.com, as well as the highly touted web reality series, "Dance 212," and associated events.




Past DANCE MAGAZINE AWARD recipients
(* Special Award)

2012 Julie Kent

Anna Kisselgoff

Renee Robinson

Dianne Walker

2011 Dr. William Hamilton

Alexei Ratmansky

Kathleen Marshall

Yvonne Rainer

Jenifer Ringer

2010 Deborah Jowitt

Pilobolus Dance Theater

Irina Kolpakova

Matthew Rushing

2009 Allegra Kent

Ohad Naharin

Sara Rudner

Jason Samuels Smith

2008 Pina Bausch

Lawrence Rhodes


Ethan Stiefel

Sylvia Waters

2007 Bettie de Jong


Bebe Neuwirth


Desmond Richardson

Wendy Whelan

2006 Todd Bolender


Eiko & Koma


David Howard


Gelsey Kirkland


Joan Myers Brown

2005 Clive Barnes


Alessandra Ferri


Donald McKayle


Jimmy Slyde


Christopher Wheeldon

2004 Jose Manuel Carreno


Chuck Davis

Anna Halprin

Chita Rivera

2003 William Forsythe

Susan Jaffe

Jock Soto

Charles and Stephanie
Reinhart

2002 Nina Ananiashvili


Frank Andersen

Jack Mitchell

Tina Ramirez

2001 Terese Capucilli

Michael M. Kaiser

Susan Stroman

Damian Woetzel

2000 David Parsons

Ann Reinking


Ben Stevenson

1999 Barbara Horgan for the
Balanchine Trust

Al Pischl for Dance Horizons

Jacques d'Amboise


Martin Fredmann


Kevin McKenzie

1998 Jeraldyne Blunden


Julio Bocca


Suki Schorer


Dame Ninette de Valois

1997 Claude Bessy


Anna-Marie Holmes and Bruce
Marks

Dudley Williams

Hernando Cortez & Dancers
Responding to AIDS*

1996 Peter Boal


Savion Glover


Francia Russell and Kent
Stowell


Ann Barzel*

1995 Susan Marshall


Carla Maxwell


Fayard and Harold Nicholas

1994 Christine Dakin


Kate Johnson

Jiri Kylian

1993 Bill T. Jones


Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne
Marceau

Beatriz Rodriguez

1992 Darci Kistler

Meredith Monk

Helgi Tomasson

1991 Virginia Johnson

Mark Morris

Jennifer Tipton

1990 Garth Fagan


Eliot Feld

Hanya Holm

1988 "Dancing for Life"


Moscelyne Larkin and Roman
Jasinski


P. W. Manchester


Kyra Nichols

1987 Merrill Ashley


Trisha Brown


Liz Thompson


David White


Doris Hering*

1985 Charles "Honi" Coles


Richard Cragun


Frederic Franklin


Heather Watts


Walter Sorell*

1984 Alexandra Danilova


Robert Irving


Donald Saddler


Tommy Tune


Dance Masters of America,
Inc.*

1983 Jeannot Cerrone


John Neumeier

Michael Smuin

Martine van Hamel

1982 Fernando Bujones


Laura Dean

Arnold Spohr

Lee Theodore

1981 Selma Jeanne Cohen


Sir Anton Dolin


Twyla Tharp


Stanley Williams

1980 Patricia McBride


Ruth Page


Paul Taylor


Herbert Ross and Nora Kaye*

1979 Aaron Copland

Jorge Donn


Erick Hawkins

1978 Mikhail Baryshnikov


Raoul Gelabert


Bella Lewitzky

1977 Murray Louis


Natalia Makarova

Peter Martins

1976 Michael Bennett


Suzanne Farrell

E. Virginia Williams

1975 Alvin Ailey

Cynthia Gregory

Arthur Mitchell

1974 Gerald Arpino

Maurice Bejart

Antony Tudor

1973 The Christensen Brothers


(Lew, Harold, Willam)


Rudolf Nureyev

1972 Anthony Dowell

Judith Jamison

1970 Sir Frederick Ashton


Carolyn Brown


Ted Shawn

1969 Erik Bruhn

Katherine Dunham

Carla Fracci

1968 Eugene Loring

Alwin Nikolais


Violette Verdy

1967 Carmen deLavallade

Sol Hurok


Wesleyan University Press

1966 Edwin Denby


Margaret H'Doubler

Maya Plisetskaya

1965 John Butler


Peter Gennaro


Edward Villella

1964 Gower Champion


Robert Joffrey

Pauline Koner

1963 Isadora Bennett

Margot Fonteyn

Bob Fosse

1962 Melissa Hayden


Anna Sokolow


Gwen Verdon

1960 Merce Cunningham


Igor Moiseyev


Maria Tallchief

1959 Dorothy Alexander


Fred Astaire


George Balanchine

1958 Alicia Alonso


Doris Humphrey

Gene Kelly


Igor Youskevitch

1957 Lucia Chase

Jose Limon

Alicia Markova


Jerome Robbins

1956 Agnes de Mille

Martha Graham

1955 Jack Cole

Gene Nelson

Moira Shearer

1954 Dance on TV:

Adventure (CBS)

Tony Charmoli (NBC)


Max Liebman (NBC)


Omnibus (CBS)








Contact: Ashley Mathus

Media/Publishing Manager, DanceMedia, LLC.

212-979-4872

amathus@dancemedia.com


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