Listed here are the newest promotions, appointments, and departures, in addition to notable awards and accomplishments, from September 2024. Plus, a newly obtainable funding alternative for dance artists.
Comings & Goings
Vershawn Sanders-Ward has been named president of Black Arts & Tradition Alliance of Chicago.
Emily Shooltz has been named the subsequent inventive director of off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre, succeeding Paige Evans on November 1.
Former Joffrey Ballet director of improvement Bradley W. Renner has been named the subsequent government director of Orlando Ballet, starting October 14.
Branislav Henselmann has been named the subsequent government director of San Francisco Ballet, starting in November.
At Boca Tuya, Lindsay Clipner has been named government director and producer, and Rachel Secrest firm supervisor.
Karen Shepherd stepped down as interim managing director of The Washington Ballet on the finish of September.
Houston Ballet government director James Nelson will retire in 2026.
Jeanie Scott has been named the subsequent chief government of Scotland’s Dance Base, succeeding Jim Hollington on November 15.
Sean Aaron Carmon has joined Dance Kaleidoscope as rehearsal director.
At Pacific Northwest Ballet, Luther DeMyer has been promoted to soloist.
Nationwide Ballet of Canada principal Jurgita Dronina will depart the corporate on the finish of the 2024–25 season.
Awards & Honors
Justin Vivian Bond and Shamel Pitts are among the many 2024 MacArthur Fellows, every of whom receives an $800,000 unrestricted grant.
Ralph Lemon and Shavon Norris are among the many recipients of the 2024 Pew Fellowships within the Arts, which every embrace $85,000 unrestricted grants. Artistic Challenge Grants have been awarded to BalletX (for Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak), Nichole Canuso Dance Firm (Lunar Retreat), and The Schuylkill Middle for Environmental Schooling (for Silvana Cardell’s site-specific TERRA: Our bodies & Territories).
Imania Fatima Detry and Robby Lee Williams are among the many recipients of this 12 months’s 3Arts Awards, which embrace a $30,000 unrestricted grant.
Inaugural recipients of Doris Duke Basis’s Performing Arts Applied sciences Lab grant embrace Alaska Native Heritage Middle (Yuraq Challenge), Ballet Hispánico Instituto Coreográfico and Cornell Tech’s Artwork initiative (Innovación Fellowship in Dance & Emergent Expertise), ChromaDiverse, Inc. (Unlocking Historical past: Enhancing CD SmartCapture), grisha coleman (The Motion Undercommons: Expertise as Resistance | Future Archives), jaamil olawale kosoko/kosoko efficiency studio (Mapping the Ephemeral Passage: Strategies for Archiving Efficiency), Momentum Stage, Inc. with Nicole Perry, Pedram Nimreezi, and Ed Talavera (Totentanz: Artistic Efficiency Safety), and VisionIntoArt (Sensorium AI: Incapacity, Expertise, and Voice).
On the Artistic Arts Emmys, Karla Puno Garcia received Excellent Choreography for Selection or Actuality Programming for her work on the 76th Annual Tony Awards and Nina McNeely received Excellent Choreography for Scripted Programming for “The Idol.”
Allure La’Donna received the MTV Video Music Award for Finest Choreography for Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” video.
Jan Bartoszek acquired the 2024 Legacy Award from See Chicago Dance.
Christopher Gerty acquired the Nationwide Ballet of Canada’s 2024 Dancers First Award, which features a $5,000 prize.
New Funding Alternative
Illinois Arts Council is accepting functions for its Artistic Accelerator Fund, which can present $10,000 grants to Illinois-based impartial artists. Software deadline is November 20. Extra data right here.
