The American Faucet Dance Basis (ATDF) will current the 2024 and 2025 Faucet Metropolis Awards on Thursday, September 11 at 6:00 PM on the Bruno Walter Auditorium, situated throughout the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Middle, 111 Amsterdam Avenue (at sixty fifth Road) in New York Metropolis. This occasion is free and open to the general public, and a ticket hyperlink might be coming quickly.
This particular occasion will honor recipients of the ATDF Hoofer Awards, Faucet Preservation Awards, and inductees into the Worldwide Faucet Dance Corridor of Fame for each 2024 and 2025. The night will embrace shock friends, archival movie clips, and stay performances, celebrating the wealthy legacy and vibrant way forward for faucet dance. Honorees will embrace Dick Van Dyke, Tommy Tune, Lisa La Touche, the late Billy Strayhorn and extra.
“After the ATDF downsized in 2023, I started to really feel the Faucet Metropolis Awards had been method too necessary to only cease,” mentioned Tony Waag, ATDF Founding Director. “If our art-form goes to outlive, we have to proceed our dedication of recognizing the foremost figures who’ve made important contributions to the sector by honoring their legacies. Having felt very anxious to carry the Awards again, I approached the Lincoln Middle Library, and so they agreed. So, a really particular thanks go to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division on the New York Public Library for his or her underwriting assist.”
The Faucet Metropolis Awards have a good time the luminaries and innovators of faucet dance, recognizing their contributions to the artwork type’s vibrant legacy at this 12 months’s ceremony.
The Hoofer Awards honor Bril Barrett and Josh Hilberman from 2024, alongside 2025 recipients Germaine Goodson, Faucet and Tray, and Lisa La Touche, all celebrated for his or her distinctive artistry and boundary-pushing performances. The Worldwide Faucet Dance Corridor of Fame inducts 2024 honorees Billy Strayhorn and Joe Stirling, along with 2025 inductees Skip Cunningham, Tommy Tune, and Dick Van Dyke, for his or her transformative impression on the worldwide faucet group. Moreover, the Faucet Preservation Awards acknowledge Gene Medler from 2024 and 2025 recipients Kurt Albert and Klaus Bleis for his or her devoted efforts in sustaining and selling faucet’s wealthy heritage.
The American Faucet Dance Basis is a non-profit 501(c)(3) group devoted to the preservation and development of faucet dance as an American artwork type. By means of performances, training, archival initiatives, and annual awards, ATDF honors the artwork type’s previous, helps its current, and nurtures its future. Be taught extra at www.atdf.org
