Rolex presented 'AMERICA DANCES! Celebrating Our Sparkling Heritage - Broadway, TV & Film'- Career Transition For Dancers' 24th Anniversary Jubilee on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (bet. 7 & 6 Aves) NYC.
Rolex presents 'AMERICA DANCES! Celebrating Our Sparkling Heritage - Broadway, TV & Film'- Career Transition For Dancers' 24th Anniversary Jubilee on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center. Patrick Swayze (1952 - 2009) will be honored posthumously with the 2009 Rolex Dance Award. The Career Transition For Dancers' Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the World of Dance will be given to Lawrence Herbert and the Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation. The show will be followed by an 'Anniversary Supper with the Stars' at The Grand Ballroom at The Hilton New York.
Rolex presents 'AMERICA DANCES! Celebrating Our Sparkling Heritage - Broadway, TV & Film'- Career Transition For Dancers' 24th Anniversary Jubilee on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:00 pm at New York City Center. Patrick Swayze (1952 - 2009) will be honored posthumously with the 2009 Rolex Dance Award. The Career Transition For Dancers' Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the World of Dance will be given to Lawrence Herbert and the Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation. The show will be followed by an 'Anniversary Supper with the Stars' at The Grand Ballroom at The Hilton New York.
YoungArts, the core program of the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), is set to honor two internationally-acclaimed artists, dancer and choreographer Desmond Richardson and actress and director Liv Ullmann. Richardson will accept the YoungArts Alumni Award and Ullmann will accept the Arison Award at YoungArts' An Affair of the Arts Performance and Gala, January 16 at the Gusman Center and the Alfred I. DuPont Building. SunTrust Bank is Title Presenting Sponsor.
SocialMiami.com is reporting that director Liv Ullmann and Broadway veteran Desmond Richardson will receive YoungArts Awards granted by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts at the YoungArts Gala on January 16, 2010. The Gala is the culmination in a week long workshop provided by YoungArts that allows young artists to take master classes in the arts.
COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET has been called the most creative and compelling multicultural dance company in the arts landscape today. As previously announced, this Saturday the organization will celebrate its 15th Anniversary Season-entitled LOVE, SWEAT & TEARS. The company will commemorate the occasion with a star-studded Anniversary Gala, a wide-ranging tour, and a series of performances at NYC's world-renowned hub for dance arts - The Joyce Theater. S. Epatha Merkerson and Alana De La Garza will co-host Complexions Contemporary Ballet's 15th anniversary gala at the Allen Room on Friday, October 16 at 7pm.
Taye Diggs and his wife, Idina Menzel welcomed a new baby into their lives back on September 2nd and People Magazine has released the first photo of the newest member of their family! Click here for the full story.
The New York City-based dance company known as COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET is perhaps the most creative and compelling multicultural dance company in the arts landscape today, and this fall the organization is proud to celebrate its 15th Anniversary Season-entitled LOVE, SWEAT & TEARS.
The New York City-based dance company known as COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET is perhaps the most creative and compelling multicultural dance company in the arts landscape today, and this fall the organization is proud to celebrate its 15th Anniversary Season-entitled LOVE, SWEAT & TEARS.
The Joyce Theater will invigorate the New York dance scene this fall with an eclectic and exciting line-up, and will offer a special ticket price of $10 for front row seats.
Taye Diggs talks about the upcoming birth of his baby boy to People Magazine. Diggs exclaims that, 'Everyone keeps telling me how amazing it's going to be. Once the birth happens, everything is going to change on every level.' He remarked 'I'm very excited.'
Upright Cabaret producers Chris Isaacson and Shane Sheel will present a trio of shows entitled Upright Cabaret's Wicked Summer Nights: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, beginning in June. The shows will star pivotal performers and figures that have created and shaped Wicked, the powerhouse Broadway musical which tells the story of the two witches of Oz long before Dorothy showed up. All three shows will be directed by Upright Cabaret Artistic Director Billy Porter.
The Pittsburgh Dance Council's Executive Director Paul J. Organisak proudly announces the 2009/2010 series featuring an exciting season of Pittsburgh premieres by leading dance companies from around the globe.
Upright Cabaret producers Chris Isaacson and Shane Sheel will present a trio of shows entitled Upright Cabaret's Wicked Summer Nights: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, beginning in June. The shows will star pivotal performers and figures that have created and shaped Wicked, the powerhouse Broadway musical which tells the story of the two witches of Oz long before Dorothy showed up. All three shows will be directed by Upright Cabaret Artistic Director Billy Porter.
Contemporary dance company dre.dance (Andrew Palermo and Taye Diggs) examines autism in their latest World Premiere, BEYOND.WORDS. Performances of this challenging new work run April 2-4 at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center.
Usmagazine.com is exclusively confirming that, after 13 years together, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel are expecting their first baby, according to their rep. The baby is due later this year. The Private Practice star, 38, and the Tony award-winning actress, 37, first met on the original 1996 Broadway production of Rent in NYC. After seven years of dating, they got married in January 2003 reports US.