Each of the 2009 Dance Magazine Awards recipients has made a contribution to dance that is both unique and outsized: Jason Samuels Smith, the hard-hitting tapper who cares about community; Allegra Kent, a legendary ballerina who now teaches, coaches, and writes; Ohad Naharin, who revolutionized international dance; and Sara Rudner, who gave postmodernism a spiritual, […]

This year the Dance Magazine Awards are personal for me. I started dancing with Sara Rudner more than 30 years ago. My choreography was influenced by Ohad Naharin 20 years ago, and I started editing with Allegra Kent almost 10 years ago. And Jason Samuels Smith, well, I just admired him from afar the last […]