On November 21, the Martha Hill Dance Fund honors two women with the Lifetime Achievement Award: movement researcher Ann Hutchinson Guest and dance writer Deborah Jowitt. Choreographer Frederick Earl Mosley receives the MHDF Mid-Career Award. Ann Hutchinson Guest is an expert on Labanotation. She co-founded the Dance Notation Bureau in New York City and founded […]
Next month, the American Dance Festival will honor modern dance choreographer Lar Lubovitch with the 2016 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement. The $50,000 prize is awarded annually. Lar Lubovitch with Alexander Sergeyev and Svetlana Ivanova of the Mariinsky Ballet Lubovitch founded the New York City–based Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1968. […]
Your browser does not support the video tag. Franco De Vita is the director of American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and the 2014 recipient of the Dance Teacher Lifetime Achievement Award. Here, he breaks down pas de chat, emphasizing retiré to help students maintain their turnout.