News: August 2010 DT Notes
- Daniel Gwirtzman and his dance company started a new festival to prepare aspiring theatrical dancers: The Washington Heights Summer Musical Theater Dance Festival, July 19–August 1. Classes for ages 13–17 include jazz, tap and composition. Info: www.gwirtzmandance.org
- Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council offer the Lincoln Center Institute International Educator Workshop, August 2–6, a professional development program for educators, arts administrators and artists, on the campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. Forty participants are expected this year. Info: www.lcinstitute.org
- The Ford Foundation has announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative to generate new arts spaces nationwide. Supporting Diverse Arts Spaces grants will go to organizations in the early stages of planning facilities that will strengthen relationships between artists and the community. Letters of inquiry for the fall 2010 cycle must be received by September 17, 2010. Info: www.fordfound.org
- The Russian American Foundation has selected 10 young ballet dancers for the National Security Language Initiative for Youth Program, which provides merit-based scholarships to U.S. high school students to study language and culture in foreign countries. After three weeks of intensive training with the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in NYC, the students spend six weeks, July 17–August 28, in Moscow studying Russian language, culture and ballet at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Info: www.russianamericanfoundation.org
- This summer, Maurice Brandon Curry became chairperson of the summer arts day camp Usdan Center for the Performing Arts. Curry is former director of the Joffrey Ballet School and has directed, choreographed and produced events around the world.
- The National Endowment for the Arts has granted $15,000 through the “Access to Artistic Excellence Award” to The Antony Tudor Ballet Trust. The trust plans to use the majority of the funds to digitally transfer archival performance footage of Tudor ballets and create short online video excerpts. (See February 2010 DT.) Info: www.antonytudor.org
- Wallie Wolfgruber became director of dance at SUNY Purchase College in July. She previously taught at Rutgers University and the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY. She was a principal dancer in the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, where she also served as choreographic assistant, and has served on the faculty at Florida State University, Manhattanville College and SUNY Brockport, where she was the dance department’s undergraduate program director.
- In May, honorary degrees were presented by Cornish College of the Arts to SUNY Brockport professor Bill Evans (2010 DT Lifetime Achievement Award winner), and by The Juilliard School to Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Supplements
Studio Talk - April Edition
Dance Directory 2010
Role Models Past and Present
Beyond Performance
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