Dance Magazine Awards 2024, honoring those who've made outstanding contributions to our field

2024 Posthumous Dance Magazine Awards

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.

Baryshnikov–a middle-aged white man wearing black dance clothes—poses in retiré, with his right arm elegantly framing his face, in a sunlit industrial dance studio.

Celebrating Dance Magazine Chairman’s Award Honoree Mikhail Baryshnikov

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 […]

Shen Wei, an Asian man wearing a white t-shirt and blue sneakers, sits serenely on the floor in front of a moody brown and black abstract painting, his legs crossed at the ankles.

Celebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Shen Wei

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 […]

Staines, a fair-skinned woman with close-cropped red hair wearing a black turtleneck and black pants, holds a microphone and smiles broadly as she addresses an applauding crowd.

Celebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Mavis Staines

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 […]

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Celebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Liz Lerman

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 […]

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Celebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree Joanna Haigood

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 […]

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Celebrating Dance Magazine Award Honoree George Faison

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 choreographer George Faison, it all started when a high school friend took him to a performance of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Reflecting on the iconic wedge formation from the opening section, Faison […]

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