Awards and Grants

Chan Han Goh, former National Ballet of Canada star and current director of the Goh Ballet, will receive a FMA Art Achievement Award for her contributions to Canadian art and dance. —posted 8/27/2010

Calvin Royal III has been awarded the Lorna Strassler Award for Student Excellence at The School at Jacob's Pillow. He will receive a full scholarship to The School and a $2,500 cash stipend. Royal has been a member of ABT II since 2007 and will join the main company as an apprentice in October. —posted 8/11/2010

The 2010 Ruth Page Award will be presented to The Chicago Dancing Festival on August 28 at Millenium Park in Chicago. Accepting the award will be co-artistic directors Jay Franke and Lar Lubovitch and board chair David Herro. —posted 8/6/10

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given a grant of $100,000 to the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company to support a second year of CHIME Across Borders, a year-long project that arranges for established choreographers to work with local San Francisco choreographers. In 2011, Ralph Lemon will act as Chair of MJDC. —posted 8/4/2010 

The winners of the 2010 Princess Grace Awards have been announced. Choreography fellowships have been awarded to Kyle Abraham (Abraham.In.Motion) for the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp and Victor Quijada (Rubberband Dance Group) for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Receiving dance scholarships are Craig Black (The Juilliard School) and and Andrew Wojtal (California Institute of the Arts) and receiving dance fellowships are Ashley J. Jackson (Alonzo King's LINES Ballet), Rachel Meyer (Dominic Walsh Dance Theater), Andrea Parson (Northwest Dance Project), and Brett Perry (Trey McIntyre Project). —posted 8/4/2010

Dance Theater Workshop has been awarded a $75,000 grant by the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. The grant will be used to expand The Suitcase Fund: A Project of Ideas and Means in Cross-Cultural Artist Relations. Founded in 1985, The Suitcase Fund has been actively involved in Eastern Europe; with the grant's added support, expansion will include Mali, Lebanon, and Senegal. --posted 7/26/2010

The Capezio Ballet Makers Dance Foundation, a philanthropic organization, has selected Trisha Brown as the recipient of the 59th annual Capezio Dance Award. She will receive the award and accompanying $10,000 honorarium at New York City Center on Nov. 8, 2010 during the Career Transition for Dancers' 25th Anniversary celebration. Brown joins iconical recipients Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Jerome Robbins and Alvin Ailey. --posted 7/26/2010

Trisha Brown has selected Australian dancer/choreographer Lee Serle as her protégé for the 2010-2011 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The program offers exceptional young artists the opportunity to work with a master in their discipline for a year of creative dialogue and mentorship. –-posted 6/29/2010

The 2010 winners of Hubbard Street 2's National Choreographic Competition are Samar Haddad King of Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (NYC), Dominic Walsh of Dominic Walsh Dance Theater (Dallas), and Edgar Zendejas of ezdanza (Montréal). The competition provides each choreographer with a two-week residency to create a piece for HS2, which will premiere during the company's season. —posted 6/22/2010

The 19th annual Horton Awards were presented last Sunday in Los Angeles. Winners include David Rousseve/Reality in Saudade (Oustanding Achievement in Performance—Company), Kevin Williamson of KDUB Dance in Fruit (Oustanding Achievement in Performance—Male), and Marissa LaBog of Collage Dance Theater in Really All About Eve (Oustanding Achievement in Performance—Female). —posted 5/18/2010

Washington Post dance critic Sarah Kaufman has received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Kaufman wrote the provocative article "Make Room Onstage for More Than One Genius" in May 2009, which inspired Dance Magazine's January 2010 story, "Are We Overdosing on Balanchine?" —posted 4/15/2010

Legendary dance photographer Martha Swope will be honored by The Humane Society of New York on April 27. Her photographs, many which have graced the pages of Dance Magazine, will be displayed. The honorary chairs for the event include Mikhail Baryshnikov. —posted 4/15/2010

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $920,000 to 16 artists, companies, and presenting organizations for 2010–2011. The grant recipients, which must reside in Southeastern Pennsylvania, include Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe, Pennsylvania Ballet, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and Eleone Dance Theatre. —posted 4/12/2010

Martha Clarke will receive the 2010 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement on June 27. The $50,000 choreographic award will be presented by screenwriter and playwright Alfred Uhry. Clarke joins a pantheon of past winners that includes Graham, Cunningham, and Ailey. —posted 3/20/2010

On March 22, Judith Jamison, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's artistic director, will receive the 2010 Montblanc De La Culture Award for North America, an annual award for outstanding contributions in the arts. —posted 3/5/2010

Oregon Ballet Theatre has been awarded three foundation grants. OBT received $300,000 from The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation and $80,000 from the Collins Foundation. In addition, the James R. Kuse Family Foundation will donate $75,000 over three years to fund OBT L.A.B. (Learn About Ballet), an outreach program targeting at-risk youth. —posted 2/23/2010

The Boeing Company Charitable Trust has granted the New England Foundation for the Arts $75,000 for its National Dance Project. —posted 2/18/10

Kansas City Ballet has been awarded a $900,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundaton earmarked for renovating the company's permanent home. The Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity, named for KCB's former artistic director, will house the ballet company and its school. —posted 2/1//10

The Critics' Circle National Dance Awards were presented last night at the Royal Opera House in London. Winners include Alexander Grant (De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement); Leanne Benjamin, The Royal Ballet (Best Female Dancer); Paul Liburd, Scottish Ballet (Best Male Dancer); Ballet Black (Outstanding Company); and Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Best Foreign Dance Company). For the other awardees, see www.nationaldanceawards.com. —posted 1/21/2010

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded the Ruth Page Foundation a matching Challenge Grant of $100,000. —posted 1/15/10

American Ballet Theatre's Maria Bystrova has been named the Jennifer Alexander Dancer for 2010. The award is bestowed upon a senior female member of the corps de ballet who "best represents the professionalism, perserverance, and generosity that Jennifer herself embodied." Bystrova joined ABT in 2000. —posted 1/8/10

Dane Campell, director of Full Effect Dance Theatre, has been awarded the 2009 Dance Chicago Choreographer of the Year Award. He joins past awardees Lauri Stallings (2004) and Julia Rhoads (2002). —posted 12/22/09

Trisha Brown has been named the 2010/2011 Rolex Dance mentor. Brown joins past mentors Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, William Forsythe, and Jirí Kylián. Next spring, she will select her protégé from a group of Rolex-nominated finalists for a year-long creative collaboration. —posted 12/08/09

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange is a receipient of a $125,000 grant from MetLife Foundation. It will go towards the MetLife Foundation Healthy Living Initiave at Dance Exchange, a new program that combines art and wellness. —posted 10/30/09

American Ballet Theatre has been awarded a $500,000 matching grant from the Arison Arts Foundation. It will go towards ABT's pre-professional programs and will fund the ABT/Gold Scholar Partnership, awarded to YoungArts Awardees. —posted 10/30/09

Celebrated dancer and Complexions co-founder Desmond Richardson will receive the YoungArts Alumni Award at YoungArts' An Affair of the Arts gala on Jan. 16. Richardson is a 1986 YoungArts alumnus in modern dance. —posted 10/21/09

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. and New York City Ballet are 2 of 18 NYC cultural organizations that have received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Joyce will use its funding for residencies and NYCB wil commission new works for a set designed by architect Santiago Calatrava. The grants are awarded over two years and range from $50,000 to $250,000 —posted 10/15/09

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre students Sterline Bara, 16, from Larkspur, CO, and Chauncie Parchment, from Brooklyn, NY, have been awarded full scholarships by the Dizzy Feet Foundation. —posted 10/14/09

Ananya Chatterjea of Ananya Dance Theatre has been honored as the Local Mother of Environmental Justice by the Women’s Environmental Institute in St. Paul, MN. —posted 10/5/09