DT Notes
May 2010 News
- Stephen Pier has been named dance division director at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School. He had previously served as the dance division’s interim director and has danced with the José Limón Dance Company and Royal Danish Ballet, where he also served as ballet master.
- Choreographer Ronald K. Brown received the 2010 Lester Horton Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dance Resource Center. Brown is artistic director of Evidence, A Dance Company, and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.
- Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, VT, has established a $150,000 endowment, the Marina Svetlova and Theodore Haig Fund for the Performing Arts. It will be used to advance classical and modern dance in the region.
- International students may now be accepted into the Milwaukee Ballet II program. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently approved Milwaukee Ballet’s request to issue student visas—this comes as part of the ballet’s accreditation into the National Association of Schools of Dance in 2008.
- The School of American Ballet, along with 11 other artists, including Bob Dylan and Clint Eastwood, received the nation’s highest honor for artistic achievement, the 2009 National Medal of the Arts, from President Obama in February.
- Betty Webster, founder of Salisbury Studio of Dance and founding president of Eastern Shore Ballet Theatre in Maryland, celebrates 50 years in business this year. Her students have gone on to dance with Dance Theatre of Harlem, North Carolina Dance Theatre and Pacific Northwest Ballet, among many other companies.
