Baryshnikov, Ratmansky, Sutton Foster & Jenifer Ringer head the line-up for the 54th Annual Dance Magazine Awards

Mikhail Bary­sh­nikov, Tony Award-winning Any­thing Goes star Sut­ton Foster, New York City Bal­let prin­cipal Jenifer Ringer and cho­reo­grapher Alexei Rat­mansky are among the dance per­son­al­it­ies tak­ing part at Manhattan’s Ailey Cit­ig­roup Theater on Decem­ber 5 for the Dance Magazine Awards.

Bary­sh­nikov presents the award to pion­eer­ing “dance healer” Dr. Wil­liam Hamilton, while Foster will honou her Any­thing Goes director/choreographer, Tony Award win­ner Kath­leen Mar­shall. Present­ing to Ringer is her hus­band and former NYCB dance part­ner James Fay­ette, now a rep­res­ent­at­ive for Amer­ican Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA).

Post­mod­ern cho­reo­grapher Yvonne Rainer rounds out the evening’s glit­ter­ing honorees. John Mee­han, a former prin­cipal dan­cer at ABT and cur­rent fac­ulty at Vas­sar, and cho­reo­grapher Sally Sil­vers com­plete the lineup of presenters.

In addi­tion to the present­a­tions, the even­ing includes an excerpt of Ratmansky’s Rus­sian Sea­sons, per­formed by Jen­nie Somogyi, Amar Ramasar, Jonathan Stafford, and Sean Suozzi of NYCB. Films of work by both Mar­shall and Rainer will also be shown.

The even­ing is open to the pub­lic with a recep­tion imme­di­ately fol­low­ing in The Ailey Studios.

via Mar­ket­Watch

Tick­ets $50: Ash­ley Mathus at 212–979-4872 or dmawards@dancemedia.com

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