As youngsters, my brother, Gregory, and I went to the Apollo Theater in Harlem to watch tap greats like Teddy Hale, Bunny Briggs, the Step Brothers and Coles & Atkins. Most of those guys would come on the stage and just tap.
With a wide range of spoken, signed, and movement languages, the 2023 Dance Magazine Awards celebrated the singular contexts and voices of the awardees.
A tradition dating back to 1954, the awards feature several changes for 2023, including the addition of an annual theme, the establishment of criteria for the selection committee, and the inclusion of posthumous honors to recognize some of the many artists who were not given awards during their lifetimes.
Winners of the Dance Magazine Awards, from 1954 to the present
Dancer, Emmy-nominated TV and film choreographer, co-founder of the Syncopated Ladies, tap shoe designer – Chloé Arnold is having a moment, and she’s thriving in the spotlight.
The disparities between the dance and tech communities can seem pretty vast, yet the two have found an odd, contemporary synergy in NFTs.
You couldn’t be blamed if you showed up to Skeleton Crew, a play by Dominique Morisseau starring Phylicia Rashad that just opened on Broadway, not expecting any dance. Set in Detroit in 2008, the show, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, follows a group of auto workers navigating the impending closure of their factory. But not only […]
“I can’t ever remember not tapping,” Gregory Hines told us in the December 1988 issue of Dance Magazine.
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