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Join in community with and be inspired by an outstanding network of dance educators as we come together to celebrate the 2022 Dance Teacher Awards on Thursday, August 18, at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in NYC!
Tickets (including group tickets) are available for the ceremony only or for the ceremony with cocktail reception. Proceeds from the cocktail party fund the Dance Teacher Scholarship at MOVE|NYC|. Get your tickets now!
Ahead of the ceremony, get to know the 2022 Dance Teacher Award recipients:
Kay Mazzo
![Kay Mazzo sits on a window sill and smiles toward the camera. She wears a white dress and folds her hands in her lap.](https://dance-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/KCF0431-HighRes-Print_Web_R1-horiz-1024x732.jpg)
Risa Steinberg
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Ronald K. Alexander
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Antonio and Kirven Douthit-Boyd
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Kristine Elliott
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Ana Nery Fragoso
![A dance teacher holding a drum teaches a dance class full of moving dancers.](https://dance-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MG_4952-1024x683.jpg)
Yvonne Gutierrez
![Yvonne Gutierrez, in all black, poses in the back with her Spanish dancers. The young female dancers are dressed in bright red and black performance dresses, adorned with floral patterns and polka dots. Their hair is pulled back into sleek low buns with adorning flowers. The group poses outside on a wooden patio in front of trees and bushes.](https://dance-teacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Little-Island-by-O.-Gutierrez-1024x1024.jpg)
Get your tickets now! We can’t wait to see you there!
Header photo credits, clockwise from top left: Photo by Rosalie O’Connor, courtesy SAB, Photo by Peter Schaaf, courtesy Steinberg; Photo by Hollis King; Photo by Peter Wochniak, courtesy Center of Creative Arts; Photo by L Kronenfield; Photo by Nel Shelby; Photo by Patricia Unterman; Photo by Peter Wochniak, courtesy COCA