Dance Magazine

? Join us for the 2024 Dance Magazine Awards! ? Monday, December 2, 2024, at 7 pm Baryshnikov Arts, Jerome Robbins Theater 450 W 37th St, New York We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 67th Annual Dance Magazine Awards. This year, it is our privilege to honor these best in our field, on the stage and beyond: ? George Faison ? Joanna Haigood ? Liz Lerman ? Mavis Staines ? Shen Wei? ? Chairman's Award: Mikhail Baryshnikov ?For the second time ever, we will also give Posthumous Dance Magazine Awards to Carmen Amaya, Talley Beatty, Michaela Mabinty DePrince, ‘Iolani Luahine, Raven Wilkinson, and Yuriko. A ceremony to recognize this year's honorees will be held in New York City at Baryshnikov Arts on Monday, December 2, at 7 pm, with performances and presentations for each recipient. For tickets and more information about this year’s awardees, head to https://lnkd.in/gc8fW8Ak #DanceMagazineAwards #DanceMagazine ??: Clockwise from top left: George Faison; photo by Hollis King. Joanna Haigood; photo by Charlie Formenty. Liz Lerman; photo by Christine Johnson. Shen Wei; photo courtesy Shen Wei. Mavis Staines; photo by Johan Persson. Media description: A composite of the 2024 Dance Magazine Awardees’ headshots and the event logo in white, laid over a navy blue background with gold speckles.?

The documentary film “Obsessed with Light” explores the innovative choreographer Lo?e Fuller's life—and her impact on dance, technology, fashion, and the nature of celebrity. Co-directed by Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum, it had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival in October of 2023, and has since been screened at festivals worldwide. Krayenbühl and Oelbaum sat down to talk about the documentary in advance of its theatrical release on December 6 at the Quad Cinema Corp in New York City. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/ev-DaZUy ??: Lo?e Fuller in a still from "Obsessed With Light." Photo courtesy Film Movement. ??: Cara Hagan #LoieFuller #ObsessedWithLight #DanceHistory Description: A black and white image of Fuller, a fair-skinned woman with curly hair wearing a dark, flowing dress covered with sparkling embellishments. She holds up the left side of her costume as she looks down at what appears to be a light near her feet. Its soft glow is setting her costume aglitter.

This week, we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. Founded in 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards have historically only been given to living artists, but in 2023 posthumous honors were added to recognize some of the many artists not given awards during their lifetimes. This year’s posthumous awardees are: ? Carmen Amaya ? Talley Beatty ? Yuriko ? ‘Iolani Luahine ? Raven Wilkinson ? Michaela Mabinty DePrince Learn more about these extraordinary artists at https://lnkd.in/eeDseqTD For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. Article by Eva Yaa Asantewaa #DanceMagazineAwards #DanceMagazine Baryshnikov Arts The 2024 Dance Magazine Awards are sponsored by New York City Center, Canada's National Ballet School, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Bennington College.

Get to know: Dance Magazine Award Honoree George Faison ? For choreographer George Faison, it all started when a high school friend took him to a performance of Alvin Ailey’s “Revelations.” Reflecting on the iconic wedge formation from the opening section, Faison says, “that was how I wanted to live. With abandon. Without restrictions. Without holding back. So focused. So purposeful.” That’s precisely what Faison did—first as a leading dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where his spirited presence, long lines, and spitfire turns were unforgettable, and then as a performer and choreographer in musical theater and beyond. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/ewWiY5tt This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. All video footage courtesy Faison. Article by Zita Allen. #GeorgeFaison #georgefaisonfirehousetheater #dancemagazineawards

Get to know: Dance Magazine Award Honoree Joanna Haigood ? For 44 years, Joanna Haigood’s vision as artistic director of Zaccho Dance Theatre has combined soaring imagination and deeply grounded curiosity. She aims to shift communities’ relationships with history—and to inspire fresh commitment to the future. “As I’m getting older, I’m thinking about what is useful,” Haigood says. “Right now, I feel that our society is lost in so many ways. Finding our way back to love—not just of family, but of community, and of the planet—that feels critical.” Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gNTwmGBU This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. Excerpts from Haigood’s “Love, a state of grace,” “People’s Palace,” and “A Poet’s Love.” All video footage courtesy Haigood and Zaccho Dance Theatre. Article by Rachel Howard #joannahaigood #zacchodancetheatre #dancemagazineawards

Get to know: Dance Magazine Award Honoree Mavis Staines ? Mavis Staines, the recently retired artistic director of Canada's National Ballet School, has been a visionary force in 21st-century ballet. A 1972 graduate of the school she would transform over 35 years of directorship, Staines is admired internationally for supporting ideas about community, body diversity, and well-being for students and dancers. Into retirement, Staines will continue her work as a global ambassador for Canada’s National Ballet School. “This is really meaningful now that I can choose how to direct my time,” she says. “It is a beautiful way to keep linking arms with leaders and emerging artists and artists around the world to gradually shift the dial in ways that are essential for keeping ballet vibrant and alive into the future.” Learn more at https://lnkd.in/essAh6q6 This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. All video footage courtesy Canada’s National Ballet School. Article by Kathleen Smith. #MavisStaines #CanadasNationalBalletSchool #DanceMagazineAwards

Get to know: Dance Magazine Award Honoree Shen Wei ? Shen Wei blends art forms like watercolors. He is accomplished in not just multiple forms of dance but also painting, set design, costuming, film, architecture, calligraphy, and poetry—all of which he integrates into his artistic practice. “Making art gives meaning and value to my life and brings magic to the world,” he says. Spending days in the studio dancing and choreographing while also carving out time for painting, Shen Wei pushed the envelope of physicality in visual art, sometimes eschewing the paintbrush and using parts of his body to apply the paint. He extended this method into several choreographic works, in which paint-slathered dancers fill a floor canvas through their dancing. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eJEpUkyi This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. All video footage courtesy Shen Wei Dance Arts. Article by Karen Greenspan. #ShenWei #shenweidancearts #dancemagazineawards

Alicia Graf Mack, celebrated former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artist and current dean and director of The Juilliard School Dance Division, has been appointed Ailey’s next artistic director. Graf Mack, who will assume her role on July 1, 2025, is the fourth artistic director in the company’s history, following founder Alvin Ailey, Judith Jamison, and Robert Battle. Last year, Dance Magazine had the distinct pleasure of awarding Graf Mack a Dance Magazine Award for her contributions to the art form and the education of its future artists. Photo by Gregory Costanzo, courtesy of Ailey. #AliciaGrafMack #AlvinAiley #Ailey Description: Alicia Graf Mack poses for a headshot in a black top, her long curly hair down. She tilts her head and looks into the camera confidently.

Remembering Judith Jamison (1943–2024): Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic Director, and Keeper of the Flame During her extraordinary lifetime, Judith Jamison built a legacy not only as a performer and leader of singular vision, but also as a champion of numerous other dance artists. In the tributes to Jamison that have proliferated since she passed away on November 9, many have marveled at the scope of the longtime Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater director’s influence. Learn more about Jamison and her enduring legacy: https://lnkd.in/g-hiUzZZ ??: Judith Jamison in “Cry.” Photo by J. L. Vartoogian, courtesy DM Archives. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ??: Jamison on the November 1972 cover of Dance Magazine. Photo and cover design by Herbert Migdoll, courtesy DM Archives. ??: Zita Allen #JudithJamison #InMemoriam #Ailey Image descriptions: 1) In a black and white archival image, Judith Jamison grins infectiously as she dances. She wears a long white dress, the skirt of which she lifts into a ripple with one arm as she moves lithely on the balls of her feet, knees bent. 2) A magazine cover featuring a photo of Jamison, a dark-skinned Black woman with close-cropped hair wearing a white strapless top, pictured from the waist up. Her hands are held elegantly in front of her chest and her eyes are gazing upward. The Dance Magazine logo is printed in red across the top of the image.

A dancer’s pay in the U.S. is unpredictable. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median hourly pay for dancers and choreographers in 2023 was $24.95. But that number belies a wide range of experiences, with pay fluctuating depending on location, career level, and freelance status, among many other variables. All too often, the pay a dancer receives seems less than what their work is worth. As a result, unions and protests have grown in the industry. Dance artists are getting increasingly comfortable demanding more and speaking up about their work conditions. To help paint a picture of the current financial landscape in the industry, four dancers got candid about their typical earnings—and the financial needs and concerns that shape their careers. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e-gAvGNJ Photo courtesy Getty Images #dancers #dancerlife #finances Description: 1) Overview of young female accountant with a calculator sitting by desk, making calculations on paper. Text: 4 Pro Dancers Get Candid About Their Finances