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 […]

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 […]

The 2024 Dance Magazine Awards will honor George Faison, Joanna Haigood, Liz Lerman, Mavis Staines, and Shen Wei. The Chairman’s Award will go to Mikhail Baryshnikov for his work with Baryshnikov Arts, and the posthumous awards will celebrate six artists who were not recognized by the awards committee during their lifetimes. A tradition dating back […]

Winners of the Dance Magazine Awards, from 1954 to the present

With a wide range of spoken, signed, and movement languages, the 2023 Dance Magazine Awards celebrated the singular contexts and voices of the awardees.

Welcome Remarks Joanna Harp, President, Dance Media Caitlin Sims, Content Director, Dance Media, Editor in Chief, Dance Magazine Presentation for George Faison Suite Otis (excerpt) Choreographer: George Faison Music: Otis Redding Costume execution: Natasha Guruleva First performance: August 2, 1971 Performers: Artists of Philadanco! Kaylah Arielle, Janine N. Beckles, Andrew Bryant, William E. Burden, Israel […]