Dance Magazine Awards
In 2017, we celebrate Rennie Harris, Marika Molnar, Linda Celeste Sims and Diana Vishneva.
Join us to celebrate with live performances and special guests at New York’s Ailey Citigroup Theater on December 4. For the first time, this year’s event will donate proceeds to the Harkness Foundation for Dance to fund a newly-created award for choreographers in their first decade of professional work. Click here for the official press release.
Tickets to the performance and post-awards cocktail party are $250. Opportunities to participate at a leadership level of $1,000 are available and include a VIP pre-performance champagne reception. Performance-only tickets are $50. To order, email [email protected] or call 212-979-4872.
Watch highlights
from the 2016 Dance Magazine Awards.
See all the past recipients of Dance Magazine Award below.
2016
Carolyn Adams
Lynn Garafola
Lar Lubovitch
Tiler Peck
2015
Soledad Barrio
Marcelo Gomes
Karen Kain
David Vaughan
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
2014
Brenda Bufalino and Tony Waag
Misty Copeland
Luigi
Wayne McGregor
Larissa Saveliev
2013
Martha Clarke
Mats Ek
Philip Glass
Yuan Yuan Tan
Patricia Wilde
2012
Julie Kent
Anna Kisselgoff
Renee Robinson
Diane Walker
2011
Dr. William Hamilton
Alexei Ratmansky
Kathleen Marshall
Yvonne Rainer
Jennifer Ringer
2010
Deborah Jowitt
Pilobous Dance Theatre
Irina Kolpakova
Matthew Rusing
2009
Allegra Kent
Ohad Naharin
Sara Rudner
Jason Samuels Smith
2008
Pina Bausch
Lawrence Rhodes
Ethan Stiefel
Sylvia Waters
2007
Bettie de Jong
Bebe Neuwirth
Desmond Richardson
Wendy Whelan
2006
Todd Bolender
Eiko & Koma
David Howard
Gelsey Kirkland
Joan Meyers Brown
2005
Clive Barnes
Alessandra Ferri
Donald McKayle
Jimmy Slyde
Christopher Wheeldon
2004
Jose Manuel Carreño
Chuck Davis
Anna Halprin
Chita Rivera
2003
William Forsythe
Susan Jaffe
Jock Soto
Charles and Stephanie Reinhart
2002
Nina Ananiashvili
Frank Andersen
Jack Mitchell
Tina Ramirez
2001
Terese Capucilli
Michael M. Kaiser
Susan Stroman
Damian Woetzel
2000
David Parsons
Ann Reinking
Ben Stevenson
1999
Barbara Horgan for the Balanchine Trust
Al Pischl for Dance Horizons
Jacques d’Amboise
Martin Fredmann
Kevin McKenzie
1998
Jeraldyne Blunden
Julio Bocca
Suki Schorer
Dame Ninette de Valois
1997
Claude Bessy
Anna-Marie Holmes and Bruce Marks
Dudley Williams
Hernando Cortez & Dancers Responding to AIDS
1996
Peter Boal
Savion Glover
Francia Russell and Kent Stowell
Ann Barzel*
1995
Susan Marshall
Carla Maxwell
Fayard and Harold Nicholas
1994
Christine Dakin
Kate Johnson
Jirí Kylián
1993
Bill T. Jones
Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau
Beatriz Rodriguez
1992
Darci Kistler
Meredith Monk
Helgi Tomasson
1991
Virginia Johnson
Mark Morris
Jennifer Tipton
1990
Garth Fagan
Eliot Feld
Hanya Holm
1988
“Dancing for Life”
Moscelyne Larkin and Roman Jasinski
P. W. Manchester
Kyra Nichols
1987
Merrill Ashley
Trisha Brown
Liz Thompson
David White
Doris Hering*
1985
Charles “Honi” Coles
Richard Cragun
Frederic Franklin
Heather Watts
Walter Sorell*
1984
Alexandra Danilova
Robert Irving
Donald Saddler
Tommy Tune
Dance Masters of America, Inc.*
1983
Jeannot Cerrone
John Neumeier
Michael Smuin
Martine van Hamel
1982
Fernando Bujones
Laura Dean Arnold Spohr
Lee Theodore
1981
Selma Jeanne Cohen
Sir Anton Dolin Twyla Tharp
Stanley Williams
1980
Patricia McBride
Ruth Page
Paul Taylor
Herbert Ross and Nora Kaye*
1979
Aaron Copland
Jorge Donn
Erick Hawkins
1978
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Raoul Gelabert
Bella Lewitzky
1977
Murray Louis
Natalia Makarova
Peter Martins
1976
Michael Bennett
Suzanne Farrell
E. Virginia Williams
1975
Alvin Ailey
Cynthia Gregory
Arthur Mitchell
1974
Gerald Arpino
Maurice Béjart
Antony Tudor
1973
The Christensen Brothers (Lew, Harold, Willam)
Rudolf Nureyev
1972
Anthony Dowell
Judith Jamison
1970
Sir Frederick Ashton
Carolyn Brown
Ted Shawn
1969
Erik Bruhn
Katherine Dunham
Carla Fracci
1968
Eugene Loring
Alwin Nikolais
Violette Verdy
1967
Carmen deLavallade
Sol Hurok
Wesleyan University Press
1966
Edwin Denby
Margaret H’Doubler
Maya Plisetskaya
1965
John Butler
Peter Gennaro
Edward Villella
1964
Gower Champion
Robert Joffrey
Pauline Koner
1963
Isadora Bennett
Margot Fonteyn
Bob Fosse
1962
Melissa Hayden
Anna Sokolow
Gwen Verdon
1960
Merce Cunningham
Igor Moiseyev
Maria Tallchief
1959
Dorothy Alexander
Fred Astaire
George Balanchine
1958
Alicia Alonso
Doris Humphrey
Gene Kelly
Igor Youskevitch
1957
Lucia Chase
José Limón
Alicia Markova
Jerome Robbins
1956
Agnes de Mille
Martha Graham
1955
Jack Cole
Gene Nelson
Moira Shearer
1954
Dance on TV: Adventure (CBS)
Tony Charmoli (NBC)
Max Liebman (NBC)
Omnibus (CBS)
*Special award
