DT Notes: January 2010 News
- In October, alumni from Marymount Manhattan College performed onstage to memorialize Professor Emeritus J. William Bordeau, who passed away in July. Bordeau had taught at the college for 30 years and was instrumental in creating its BFAs in acting and dance.
- Milwaukee Ballet has received a $1 million endowment from the Dohmen Family Foundation. Part of that gift will aid the ballet company’s education department, which served more than 32,000 last season through its outreach programs.
- An October fundraiser, “A Siren’s Soiree,” for Westside Ballet Company in Santa Monica, CA, celebrated the 90th birthday of Yvonne Mounsey, founder of the company and the Westside School of Ballet. She danced professionally with the Ballets Russes and at New York City Ballet under Balanchine.
- H.T. Chen, founder of H.T. Chen & Dancers and the Mulberry Street Theater in New York City, received the Mayor’s Award for Arts & Culture 2009. Chen’s dance school and theater are located in New York’s Chinatown.
- Christopher d’Amboise, son of Jacques d’Amboise and Carolyn George of New York City Ballet and a former NYCB dancer himself, has joined George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, as an instructor. He teaches beginning and advanced ballet, and beginning modern dance.
- Sterling Baca, 16, and Chauncie Parchment, 15, students at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre, were awarded full scholarships from the Dizzy Feet Foundation. They were 2 of 10 awarded in the foundation’s first year.
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