NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dance Magazine honors five exceptional artists at The Ailey Citigroup Theater (405 West 55th St) in Manhattan on Monday, December 9, 2013. In terms of both genre and geography, these five represent a broad span of excellence: the otherworldly San Francisco Ballet ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan, dance-theater visionary Martha Clarke, Swedish maverick choreographer Mats Ek, Balanchine's allegro ballerina Patricia Wilde, and the composer whose transporting music sends dancers into upper realms, Philip Glass.
This is the first time Dance Magazine is honoring a composer since 1979, when an award went to Aaron Copland.
Christopher Wheeldon will present to Yuan Yuan Tan, Robert Barnett will honor Patricia Wilde, Charles Reinhart will introduce Martha Clarke, Damian Woetzel will present to Philip Glass, and Jorma Elo will speak about Mats Ek.
An excerpt of Clarke's Cheri, which will have opened the night before at Signature Theater, will be performed by Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo. With Cheri, Ferri is making her first stage appearance in the U.S. since she retired from American Ballet Theatre in 2007.
New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder will perform an excerpt of Balanchine's Square Dance in tribute to Wilde.
The evening is open to the public with a reception immediately following in The Ailey Studios. Tickets are available for $50. Contact Ashley Mathus at 212-979-4872 or [email protected].
Doors open at 7:00 pm. The program begins at 7:30 pm.
The Dance Magazine Awards are lifetime achievement awards. They recognize the outstanding men and women whose contributions have left a lasting impact on the dance world. The tradition dates back to 1954.
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| Past DANCE MAGAZINE AWARD recipients |
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| 2012 |
Julie Kent |
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| Anna Kisselgoff |
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| Renee Robinson |
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| Dianne Walker |
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| 2011 |
Dr. William Hamilton |
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| Alexei Ratmansky |
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| Kathleen Marshall |
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| Yvonne Rainer |
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| Jenifer Ringer |
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| 2010 |
Deborah Jowitt |
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| Pilobolus Dance Theater |
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| Irina Kolpakova |
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| Matthew Rushing |
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| 2009 |
Allegra Kent |
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| Ohad Naharin |
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| Sara Rudner |
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| Jason Samuels Smith |
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| 2008 |
Pina Bausch |
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| Lawrence Rhodes |
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| Ethan Stiefel |
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| Sylvia Waters |
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| 2007 |
Bettie de Jong |
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| Bebe Neuwirth |
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| Desmond Richardson |
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| Wendy Whelan |
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| 2006 |
Todd Bolender |
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| Eiko & Koma |
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| David Howard |
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| Gelsey Kirkland |
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| Joan Myers Brown |
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| 2005 |
Clive Barnes |
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| Alessandra Ferri |
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| Donald McKayle |
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| Jimmy Slyde |
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| Christopher Wheeldon |
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| 2004 |
Jose Manuel Carreno |
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| Chuck Davis |
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| Anna Halprin |
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| Chita Rivera |
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| 2003 |
William Forsythe |
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| Susan Jaffe |
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| Jock Soto |
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| Charles and Stephanie Reinhart |
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| 2002 |
Nina Ananiashvili |
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| Frank Andersen |
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| Jack Mitchell |
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| Tina Ramirez |
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| 2001 |
Terese Capucilli |
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| Michael M. Kaiser |
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| Susan Stroman |
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| Damian Woetzel |
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| 2000 |
David Parsons |
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| Ann Reinking |
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| Ben Stevenson |
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| 1999 |
Barbara Horgan for the Balanchine Trust |
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| Al Pischl for Dance Horizons |
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| Jacques d'Amboise |
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| Martin Fredmann |
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| Kevin McKenzie |
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| 1998 |
Jeraldyne Blunden |
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| Julio Bocca |
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| Suki Schorer |
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| Dame Ninette de Valois |
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| 1997 |
Claude Bessy |
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| Anna-Marie Holmes and Bruce Marks |
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| Dudley Williams |
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| Hernando Cortez & Dancers Responding to AIDS* |
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| 1996 |
Peter Boal |
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| Savion Glover |
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| Francia Russell and Kent Stowell |
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| Ann Barzel* |
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| 1995 |
Susan Marshall |
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| Carla Maxwell |
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| Fayard and Harold Nicholas |
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| 1994 |
Christine Dakin |
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| Kate Johnson |
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| Jiri Kylian |
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| 1993 |
Bill T. Jones |
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| Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau |
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| Beatriz Rodriguez |
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| 1992 |
Darci Kistler |
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| Meredith Monk |
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| Helgi Tomasson |
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| 1991 |
Virginia Johnson |
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| Mark Morris |
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| Jennifer Tipton |
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| 1990 |
Garth Fagan |
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| Eliot Feld |
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| Hanya Holm |
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| 1988 |
"Dancing for Life" |
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| Moscelyne Larkin and Roman Jasinski |
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| P. W. Manchester |
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| Kyra Nichols |
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| 1987 |
Merrill Ashley |
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| Trisha Brown |
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| Liz Thompson |
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| David White |
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| Doris Hering* |
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| 1985 |
Charles "Honi" Coles |
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| Richard Cragun |
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| Frederic Franklin |
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| Heather Watts |
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| Walter Sorell* |
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| 1984 |
Alexandra Danilova |
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| Robert Irving |
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| Donald Saddler |
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| Tommy Tune |
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| Dance Masters of America, Inc.* |
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| 1983 |
Jeannot Cerrone |
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| John Neumeier |
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| Michael Smuin |
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| Martine van Hamel |
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| 1982 |
Fernando Bujones |
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| Laura Dean |
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| Arnold Spohr |
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| Lee Theodore |
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| 1981 |
Selma Jeanne Cohen |
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| Sir Anton Dolin |
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| Twyla Tharp |
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| Stanley Williams |
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| 1980 |
Patricia McBride |
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| Ruth Page |
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| Paul Taylor |
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| Herbert Ross and Nora Kaye* |
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| 1979 |
Aaron Copland |
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| Jorge Donn |
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| Erick Hawkins |
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| 1978 |
Mikhail Baryshnikov |
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| Raoul Gelabert |
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| Bella Lewitzky |
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| 1977 |
Murray Louis |
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| Natalia Makarova |
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| Peter Martins |
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| 1976 |
Michael Bennett |
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| Suzanne Farrell |
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| E. Virginia Williams |
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| 1975 |
Alvin Ailey |
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| Cynthia Gregory |
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| Arthur Mitchell |
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| 1974 |
Gerald Arpino |
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| Maurice Bejart |
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| Antony Tudor |
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| 1973 |
The Christensen Brothers |
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| (Lew, Harold, Willam) |
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| Rudolf Nureyev |
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| 1972 |
Anthony Dowell |
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| Judith Jamison |
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| 1970 |
Sir Frederick Ashton |
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| Carolyn Brown |
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| Ted Shawn |
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| 1969 |
Erik Bruhn |
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| Katherine Dunham |
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| Carla Fracci |
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| 1968 |
Eugene Loring |
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| Alwin Nikolais |
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| Violette Verdy |
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| 1967 |
Carmen deLavallade |
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| Sol Hurok |
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| Wesleyan University Press |
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| 1966 |
Edwin Denby |
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| Margaret H'Doubler |
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| Maya Plisetskaya |
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| 1965 |
John Butler |
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| Peter Gennaro |
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| Edward Villella |
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| 1964 |
Gower Champion |
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| Robert Joffrey |
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| Pauline Koner |
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| 1963 |
Isadora Bennett |
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| Margot Fonteyn |
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| Bob Fosse |
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| 1962 |
Melissa Hayden |
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| Anna Sokolow |
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| Gwen Verdon |
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| 1960 |
Merce Cunningham |
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| Igor Moiseyev |
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| Maria Tallchief |
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| 1959 |
Dorothy Alexander |
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| Fred Astaire |
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| George Balanchine |
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| 1958 |
Alicia Alonso |
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| Doris Humphrey |
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| Gene Kelly |
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| Igor Youskevitch |
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| 1957 |
Lucia Chase |
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| Jose Limon |
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| Alicia Markova |
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| Jerome Robbins |
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| 1956 |
Agnes de Mille |
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| Martha Graham |
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| 1955 |
Jack Cole |
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| Gene Nelson |
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| Moira Shearer |
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Dance on TV: |
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| Adventure (CBS) |
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| Tony Charmoli (NBC) |
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| Max Liebman (NBC) |
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| Omnibus (CBS) |
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| Contact: |
Ashley Mathus |
| Media/Publishing Manager, DanceMedia, LLC. |
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| 212-979-4872 |
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SOURCE Dance Magazine
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