This year’s Dance Magazine Awards will honor Donald Byrd; Frances Chung; Mandy Moore; Kenny Ortega; Lula Washington; and Brenda Way and Kimi Okada for their work with ODC. The Chairman’s Award will go to Debbie Allen for her work as an educator, and the posthumous awards will celebrate four artists who were not recognized by […]

The artists celebrated at the 2024 Dance Magazine Awards have had such a broad impact that the evening felt as though it were bursting at the seams with wisdom and possibility.

This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. Founded in 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards have historically only been given to living artists, but in 2023 posthumous honors were added to recognize some of the many artists not given awards during their lifetimes.

This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the  2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. The name Mikhail Baryshnikov is synonymous with artistic­ brilliance and the thrill of performance. But in the five decades since Baryshnikov’s sudden and highly publicized departure from what was then the […]

This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the  2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. Shen Wei blends art forms like watercolors. He is accomplished in not just multiple forms of dance but also painting, set design, costuming, film, architecture, calligraphy, and poetry—all of which he integrates […]

This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the  2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. Mavis Staines, the recently retired artistic director of Canada’s National Ballet School, has been a visionary force in 21st-century ballet. A 1972 graduate of the school she would transform over 35 […]

This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. For Liz Lerman, dance happens in a wide-open landscape. She’s made it her life’s work to “horizontalize the hierarchy,” as described in her 2011 book, Hiking the Horizontal: to ensure that her […]

This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. For 44 years, Joanna Haigood’s vision as artistic director of Zaccho Dance Theatre has combined soaring imagination and deeply grounded curiosity. She aims to shift communities’ relationships with history—and to inspire fresh […]