Astaire Awards Announce Additional Performers

Patricia Watt, Executive Producer and Joe Lanteri, Co-producer have announced several more electrifying moments for the 2011 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards on May 15 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU.

Russell Janzen from New York City Ballet will perform a short variation from George Balanchine's "Who Cares?" set to music by George Gershwin - as part of the Jacques d'Amboise tribute. Jacques d'Amboise was the original dancer when Balanchine created the piece. Balanchine and Gershwin's plans to collaborate were frustrated by the composer's untimely death in 1937. Thirty-three years later, Balanchine chose seventeen of Gershwin's from Broadway musical songs for this ballet.

Cesar Corrales, critically acclaimed for his turn as ‘Billy' in the smash musical "Billy Elliot" is flying in from the Toronto where he is performing with the touring company to perform "Electricity".