horton awards winners
2010 Horton Award Winners
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Helios Dance Theater "Beautiful Monsters' Laura Gorenstein Miller
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Bradley Beakes "Always Remember Never Forget" Visions Dance Theatre,
Macarena Granadillas
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Drea Sobke "Gods and Marionettes" LA Contemporary Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble (Duets/Trios/Quartets)
C. Derrick Jones & Nehara Kalev, "IRON" Catch Me Bird
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long Form
Barak Marshall "Rooster"
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short Form (less than15 minutes)
Nate Hodges "Flowers That Pick Themselves" RhetOracle Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in World Dance
Malathi Iyengar "Shivaya" Rangoli Dance Company
Outstanding Production of a Festival or Series
Pasadena Dance Festival produced by Lineage Dance Company, Hilary Thomas,
Artistic Director
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Monique L'Heureux "Hammerklavier" Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Kharen Zuenert, Laura Karlin and Erin Schlabach "WreckTangle" Invertigo
Dance Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
String Theory (composed by Toby Karlin, Najeeb Sabour, Luke Rothschild,
Holly Rothschild, Joseph Harvey, Danny Moynahan) "Wrecktangle" Invertigo
Dance Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Chris Kuhl "Tov" Rosanna Gamson Worldwide
SPECIAL HONOREES
Dance in the Community Award
The Wooden Floor - Melanie Rios Glaser, Executive and Artistic Director
The Lester Horton Excellence in Teaching Award
Bando Mitsusa
The Lester Horton Lifetime Achievement Award
Inesita
The Lester Horton Furthering the Visibility of Dance Award Furthering Visibility
Award
Fred Strickler
2009 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
David Rousseve/REALITY-Saudade, David Rousseve
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Kevin Williamson Fruit, KDUB DANCE
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Marissa LaBog Really All About Eve, Collage Dance Theater
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble (Duets/Trios/Quartets)
Bahareh Ebrhimzadeh, Rogelio Lopez Garcia, Andrew Merrell and Jennifer
Parra, The Presence of Absence - Keith Johnson/Dancers
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long Form (more than 15 minutes)
David Rousseve, David Rousseve/REALITY-Saudade
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short Form (less than 15 minutes)
Bradley Michaud volenti non fit injuria, Method Contemporary Dance
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Ryan Heffington, Really All About Eve
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Alexander Marchand, Say the Body is Like This Lamp, Alyson Boell
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Matt Scarpino, Silk or Cotton, Bare Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Eileen Cooley, The Crossings, Regina Klenjoski Dance Company
Outstanding Production of a Festival or Series
50th Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration produced by Los Angeles
County Arts Commission
Outstanding Achievement in World Dance
Viver Brasil, Feet on the Ground/Aiye, Linda Yudin and Luiz Badaró
SPECIAL HONOREES
The Lester Horton Award for Service to Our Dance Community
Carol Zee (Gabriela
Axelrod foundation)
The Lester Horton Furthering the
Visibility of Dance Award
Jamie Nichols
The Lester Horton Excellence in Teaching Award
Ron Brown
2008 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Method Contemporary Dance, This is Not an Exit
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Jacob "Kujo" Lyons, Metanoia, Lux Aeterna Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Drea Sobke, Arrive, BackhausDance
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble (Duets,Trios,Quartets)
David Contreras and Anh Dillon, Duet by Terri Best
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long Form (More than 15 min)
Bradley Michaud, This is Not an Exit, Method Contemporary Dance
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short Form (less than 15 min)
Jacob "Kujo" Lyons, Metanoia, Lux Aeterna Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Sri Susilowati, Karuna Agung - A Buddhist Requiem, Sri Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Luiz Badaró and Mario Pallais with Jose Ricardo Sousa of Viver Brasil Dance Company, So Moved/In Motion
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Francisco Martinez, Orbital Dances, Francisco Martinez Dance Theater
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Eileen Cooley, Sans Detour, Catch Me Bird and Baker & Tarpaga
Outstanding Achievement in World Dance
Sohini Ray, Gita-Govinda, Manipuri Dance Visions
Outstanding Production of a Festival or Series
Celebrate Dance 2008 produced by Jamie Nichols
Special Jury Award
Gnama Gnama Mana Mana Kono/Disorder Inside Order
Baker and Taparga Dance Project
SPECIAL HONOREES
Lifetime Achievement in Dance
Arlene Kennedy
Service to the Field Award
The James Irvine Foundation
Furthering the Visibility of Dance
Lynette Kessler
Excellence in Teaching
Luis Badaró and Linda Yudin, Co-Artistic Directors, Viver Brasil
2007 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Lux Aeterna Dance Company, Underwater and Beached
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Patrick Damon Rago, MANIFOLD (Palindrome Performance Group)
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Holly Johnston, experiment one (Ledges and Bones Dance Project)
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble
Andrea Brache & William Lu, Push (Backhausdance)
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long Form
Keith Johnson, Girl Falling Towards The Sky (Keith Johnson/Dancers)
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short Form
(Tie)
Jennifer Backhaus, Push
Regina Klenjoski, The Museum Project - Triptych #2
Outstanding Production of a Festival or Series
Jamie Nichols, Celebrate Dance 2007
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Monica Favand Campagna, Poisoning the Well (TRIP Dance Theatre)
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Charlie Campagna, Poisoning the Well (TRIP Dance Theatre)
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Rogelio Lopez Garcia, Girl Falling Towards The Sky (Keith Johnson/Dancers)
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Eileen Cooley and Monique L'Heureux, Celebrate Dance 2007
Revival, Reconstruction, Restaging
Keith Glassman, Slip Knot (Keith Glassman Dance & Performance)
Special Awards
The Lester Horton Award for Service to Our Dance Community
Meg Wolfe
The Lester Horton Lifetime Achievement Award
Grover Dale
The Lester Horton Furthering the Visibility of Dance Award
Tim Agler
The Lester Horton Dance Innovator Award
Rosanna Gamson
2006 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Djanbazian Dance Company, Anna Djanbazian, Artistic Director, for Rumi: Path to Enlightenment
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Carlos Rodriguez, La Hora de Salir, Oni Dance
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Jean Michelle Sayeg, Té Verde 'Danza Brasileira', Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble
Andrea Brache, Andrew Cook, and William Lu, eXit, Backhausdance
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long Form
Francisco Martinez, Té Verde, Francisco Martinez Dancetheatre
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short Form
Jennifer Backhaus, Love and Other Impossibilities, Backhausdance
Outstanding Production of a Festival or Series
Jamie Nichols, Celebrate Dance 2006
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Elias Roldan, Arriba Jalisco: A Gritos Y A Sombreazos, Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Ron Bartlett, Charlie Campagna, & Moira Smiley
Synergy, TRIP Dance Theatre & Regina Klenjoski Dance Co.
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Brock Cilley, The Cage, Marie de la Palme, Choreographer
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Monique L'Heureux, La Jupe, Backhausdance
Revival, Reconstruction, Restaging
Jennifer Backhaus, Disintegration (2001), Backhausdance
Special Awards
The Lester Horton Lifetime Achievement Award
Andrei Tremaine, choreographer and former Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo dancer
Gary Bates Service to the field
Allegra Fuller Snyder, choreographer and dance historian
Excellence in Teaching
Alfred Desio, creator of the Colburn Kids Tap Ensemble and Zapped Taps
Furthering the visibility of Dance
Ann Haskins: Dance writer for LA Weekly
2005 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Rhapsody in Taps Banderillas, Linda Sohl-Ellison, Artistic Director, Stroke of the Oarsmen
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
John Pennington, Reflections on Kreutzberg, Pennington Dance Group
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Maria Gillespie, Bandits, Oni Dance
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble
Sarandon Cassidy and Rogelio Lopez, G Orpheus and Eurydice, PTERO Dance Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long Form
Linda Sohl-Ellison, Stroke of the Oarsmen, Rhapsody in Taps
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short Form
John Pennington, Out Of, Pennington Dance Group
Outstanding Production of a Festival or Series
Celebration of Dance, Jill Sanzo, Ballet of the Foothills
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Monica Favand, Where the Body Ends, PTERO Dance Theater
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Paul Des Marais, Reflections on Kreutzberg, Pennington Dance Group
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Newell Taylor Reynolds, Spaces Between, Pennington Dance Group
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Andrew N. Milhan, On the Brink of Time, Pennington Dance Group, Spaces Between, Reflections on Kreutzberg, Crossing
Revival, Reconstruction, Restaging
John Pennington and Emma Lew Thomas, Reflections on Kreutzberg (1936-48), Pennington Dance Group; Diana MacNeil and John Pennington, Spaces Between (1974), Pennington Dance Group
Special Awards
The Lester Horton Lifetime Achievement Award
Jaime Rogers: choreographer: instructor: dancer and producer
Teaching
John Pennington
Service to the field
Eileen Cooley. Lighting Designer.
Furthering the visibility of Dance
Victoria Looseleaf
2004 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance, Company
Tongue Tertium Quid, artistic director Stephanie Gilliland
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Arsen Serobian Komitas
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Narineh Gazarians
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small ensemble
Rei Aoo: Erin Dwyer: Carrie Green: Carin Noland: Rain: Rei Aoo's Dance Planet
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long form
Anna Djanbazian Komitas: Kroong Bnaver (Komitas: Banished but Not Forgotten)
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short form
Sitting on January by BackhausDance Jennifer Backhaus McIvor
Outstanding Achievement in Production of a Festival or Series
Jill Sanzo Celebrate Dance Festival
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Rhonda Earick Sitting on January
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Rev. Tom Kurai & Satori Daiko: Creation: Rei Aoo's Dance Planet
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Nina Kaufman and Bradley Shimada, Found and What Remains
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Monique L'Heureux Sitting on January
Outstanding Achievement in Revival, Reconstruction, Restaging, Anna Djanbazian Komitas
Kroong Bnaver (Komitas: Banished but Not Forgotten)
Special Awards
Lifetime Achievement
Rudy Perez
Teaching
Stefan Wenta
Service to the field
composer Michael Roberts
Furthering the visibility of Dance
Lewis Segal dance critic
2003 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance, Company
Loretta Livingston and Dancers: Leaving (Evidence)
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Johnny Tu, Two Views (an urban ocean has 29 eyes) (Rosanna Gamson)
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Loretta Livingston, Leaving (Evidence)
Outstanding Achievement in Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble
Maria Gillespie and Stephan Nicoli, The Quickening (Helios)
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography -Long form
Loretta Livingston, Leaving (Evidence)
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography -Short form
Patrick Damon Rago, Four Inches to the Left
Outstanding Achievement in Production of a Festival or Series
The Ford Amphitheatre summer Dance Series: produced by the L.A. County Arts Commission: Laura Zucker: executive director
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Anna Djanbazian: What Is Inside Every Woman
Outstanding Achievement in Music
Robin Cox, Leaving (Evidence)
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Lucas Reiner, The Quickening
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Eileen Cooley: Guran
Outstanding Achievement in Revival, Reconstruction, Restaging
Rosanna Gamson: Again Not Again
Special Awards
Lifetime Achievement
Simone Forti
Teaching
Douglas Nielsen
Furthering the visibility of Dance
Debbie Allen
Innovation
Hassan Christopher
Service to the field
Danielle Brazell
2002 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Collage Dance Theatre: Cover Story, Heidi Duckler (artistic director)
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Male
Patrick Damon Rago: Native Son, Joe Goode (choreographer)
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Female
Maria Gillespie: Against Ending, Victoria Marks
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Small Ensemble (duets/trios/quartets)
Maria Gillespie, Stephanie Nugent and Karen Schupp: Against Ending, Victoria Marks
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Long Form
Victoria Marks with Maria Gillespie: Stephanie Nugent and Karen Schupp, Against Ending
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography - Short Form
Lisa K. Lock, pending
Outstanding Production of a Festival or Series
Spectrum Dance in LA Series, Deborah Brockus and Daisy Kim (producers)
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Denise Lichter: Original Sin, Regina Klenjoski Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Robin Cox, Move/Let Us Listen, Loretta Livingston and Dancers
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design (a tie)
Marco De Leon: The Bible Wall, MizeranyDance!and Jeff Cain and Ann Kaneko, High Fall: Nesting Dolls
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Carol McDowell: Against Ending, Victoria Marks
Outstanding Achievement in Revival
Reconstruction: Restaging (tie): Kathryn Cassis: Isadora Dances: Marion Scott's Spirit Dances 6: Inspired by Isadora and Anna Djanbazian: Memento, (An Uzbek Dance), Sarkis Djanbazian (choreographer), Djanbazian Dance Company
Special Awards
Lifetime Achievement
Don Martin
Excellence in Teaching
Karen McDonald
2001 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Company/Western
Collage Dance Theatre: After Eden.
Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Company/Non-Western
Avaz International Dance Theatre: Charkh: Jamal: choreographer
Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Individual/Western - Male
Stanley Holden: Coppelia (Dr. Coppelius).Inland Pacific Ballet
Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Individual/Western -Female
Jamie Nichols: El Trabajo Solo Progresa:Jamie Nichols: choreographer: Fast Feet: Spectrum: Dance in L.A. #8
Outstanding Achievement in Performance-Individual/Non-Western
Ramaa Bharadvaj: Suddha ittam.
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography I (Long-form pieces)
Heidi Duckler: After Eden: Collage Dance Theatre:
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography II (Short-form pieces)
Ramaa Bharadvaj: Suddha Nrittam
Outstanding Achievement in Production of a Festival or Series
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre-Dance Series:Summer: 2001. Summer Nights at the Ford
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Western
Charles Tomlinson: bodytalk Dance: Lauren Winslow Kearns: choreographer
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design/Non-Western
Jamal: Charkh
Outstanding Achievement Original Music for Dance
Amy Knoles: After Eden. Collage Dance Theater
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
(tie) Daniel Wheeler: Trajectoire: Section 2: Diavolo Dance Theatre: Jacques Heim: choreographer and Steven Woodruff: She Don't Work at the Pizzeria No Mo': Jamie Nichols, choreographer, Fast Feet: Jazz Dance L.A.
Outstanding Achievement in Light Design
Frank McKown, After Eden, Collage Dance Theater
Special Awards
Teaching: Jamie Nichols
Lifetime Achievement
R'wanda Lewis: Dancer: choreographer and company leader
Marion Scott: Dancer
choreographer and teacher
Yvonne Mounsey: ballet Dancer and teacher
Gary Bates Service to the Field Award: Louise Reichlin: director: Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers
California Arts Council Lifetime Achievement
Donald McKayle: Dancer: choreographer and teacher Anthony Shay: Dancer: choreographer: teacher and company leader
1999 & 2000 (Double Ceremony) HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Choreography
1999: Francisco Martinez for The Colorado: Francisco Martinez DanceTheatre
2000: Francisco Martinez for Miniatures: Francisco Martinez DanceTheatre
Individual Performance (Western)
1999: Diana MacNeil: The Beloved: American Repertory Dance Company
2000:John Pennington: David Rousseve Ten Year Chat
Individual Performance(Non-Western)
1999: Parijat Desai: program at Highways
2000: Oguri: Body Landscape 2000
Company Performance (Western)
1999: Diavolo Dance Theatre: Trajectoire
2000: Jazz Tap Ensemble: Tribute to the Nicholas Brothers
Company Performance (Non-Western)
1999: Silayan Dance Company: M'ai Lost
2000: Viver Brazil Dance Company: UniVerse Festival
Revival: Restaging or Reconstruction
1999: E.L. Thomas and John Pennington for Harald Kreutzberg's Tanze vor Gott: American Repertory Dance Company
2000: (tie) John Pennington for Bella Lewitzky's On the Brink of Time: American Repertory Dance Company; Claude Thompson and Keny Long for Thompson's Killer Joe: Jazz Dance L.A. 2000
Production: Festival or Series
1999: No award (new for 2000)
2000: (tie) Dance Kaleidoscope and Grand Performances
Special Achievements
1999: Grand Performances
2000: No award (no Longer included)
Field Service Award
1999: No award (new for 2000)
2000: Gary Bates
Music for Dance
1999: (tie) Michele Columbier for Catapult: Diavolo Dance Theatre; I Nyomen Wenten for Nusantara: Rhapsody in Taps
2000: Paul Des Marais for Cuinass: Solo Festival 2000
Set Design
1999: (tie) Jeremy Railton for Catapult: Diavolo Dance Theatre; Daniel Wheeler for Trajectoire: Diavolo Dance Theatre
2000: (tie) Marco DeLeon for Necessary Depravity: Michael Mizerany Dance; Amy Strong and B.J. Krivanek for subVersions: Collage Dance Theatre
Lighting Design
1999 and 2000: Eileen Cooley
Costume Design (Western)
1999: Donna Dickens for The Colorado: Francisco Martinez DanceTheatre
2000: (tie) Helga Grimsdottio for subVersions Collage Dance Theatre; Wes Stengel for Temporal: Fast Feet
Costume Design (Non-Western)
1999 and 2000: Jamal: Avaz International Dance Theatre
Sustained Achievement
1999: Donald Hewitt
2000: No award (no Longer included)
Lifetime Achievement
1999: No award (new for 2000)
2000: Donald Hewitt
Teaching
1999: Elizabeth Oberstein
2000: Stanley Holden
Board of Directors award
1999: No award
2000: Serena Tripi
Special Award by the California
Arts Council
Bella Lewitzky
1998 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance
Company American Repertory Dance Company California Pioneers
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Individual
Karen Goodman
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Rosanna Gamson Grand Hope Flower
Outstanding Achievement in Staging
Traditional Dance Avaz International Dance Theatre:
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Laura Brody Capture, Diavolo Dance Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in Music
Shane Cadman, Grand Hope Flower
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Adam Davis, Capture Diavolo Dance Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Eileen Cooley, Feet Speak: Dance Kaleidoscope: 5 Women Dancing and a program by the Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble
Outstanding Achievement in Revival/Restaging or Reconstruction
American Repertory Dance Company California Pioneers
Special Awards
Dance Resource Center board of directors award
Laura Zucker of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission for her support of Dance
Teaching
Elle Johnson.
Sustained Achievement
Lynn Dally (director of the Jazz Tap Ensemble) and Lula Washington (director of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre).
Don Hewitt (Longtime producer of the annual Dance Kaleidoscope Series) and Ellen Ketchum (impresario of the Feet Speak Series) for presenting local work
1997 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance Company
Collage Dance Theater Most Wanted
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Individual
Mark Mendonca (Steps Ahead Tap Trio)
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Most Wanted, Heidi Ducker Collage Dance Theater
Outstanding Achievement in Production (100 seats or less)
Heidi Ducker, Collage Dance Theater
Outstanding Achievement in Production (100 seats or more)
Jacques Heim, Diavolo Dance Theatre and Bella Lewitzky (Farewell program)
Outstanding Achievement in Music
Carla Lucerno, Most Wanted
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Eileen Cooley, Feet Speak series
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Laura Brody Series de Tete Diavolo Dance Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Roger Webb Series de Tete Diavolo Dance Theatre
Outstanding Achievement in Revival/Restaging or Reconstruction
Bella Lewitzky Nos Duraturi and Donald McKayle Songs of the Disinherited
Outstanding Achievement in Staging Traditional Dance
Juan Talavera and Men of Flamenco
Special Awards
Teaching
Rudy Perez
Sustained Achievement
Ellen Ketchum
Special award
Feet Speak Series, Ellen Ketchum producer
1996 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Company
Lewitzky Dance Company
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Individual
Michael Mizerany,Bump in the Road
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Bella Lewitzky, Four Women in Time
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Designs
Monica Favand, Carpal Tunnel
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
Murielle Hamilton, Tales From the Plate, Moving North, Loretta Livingston
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Frank Romero Tales From the Plate, Moving North, Loretta Livingston
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Stephen Bennett, Tales From the Plate, Moving North, Loretta Livingston
Outstanding Achievement in Revival: Restaging or Reconstruction
Inscape, Bella Lewitzky:
Outstanding Achievement in Staging Traditional Dance
Aman International Folk Ensemble for World Beats
Special Awards
Don Hewitt
Sustained Achievement
Stanley Holden
Teaching
Judy Scalin
County Arts Commission:
Stephan Wenta
Tap crusader Frances Nealy
Longtime Music Center employee Rena Nadler
1995 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Company
Diavolo Dance Theatre, Jacques Heim Te^te en l'Air.
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Individual
Michael Mizerany, Tin Soldier
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Janis Brenner: Tina Gerstler, Danielle Shapiro, Shel Wagner and Scott Wells, Tom's Renaissance (Pacific Dance Ensemble)
Outstanding Achievement in Staging Traditional Dance
Gema Sandoval, Epopeya Mestiza: (Danza Floricanto/USA)
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design
Eileen Cooley (lighting) Thunder Is Not Yet Rain (Winifred R. Harris' Between Lines); Laura Brody (costumes) for Diavolo Dance Theatre; Roger Webb (Set) for Te^te en l'Air
Outstanding Achievement in Music
Steve Moshier, Hae Kyung Lee and Dancers
Outstanding Achievement in Restaging: Revival or Reconstruction
Bella Lewitzky, Spaces Between, (Lewitzky Dance Company)
Special Awards
Teaching: Don Bondi
L.A. County High School for the Arts
Sustained Achievement
artistic director Michael Alexander: California Plaza
Special Award
executive director Dr. Clifford Harper: Luckman Fine Arts Complex: Cal State Los Angeles
Board of Directors Awards
Dance producer Neil Barclay; the national service/advocacy organization Dance/USA; impresario James A. Doolittle
1994 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Company
Loretta Livingston and Dancers: 10th anniversary program
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Individual
Janet Eilber: Weeping Women in Dance
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Ferne Ackerman: for Perseverance (Pacific Dance Ensemble)
Outstanding Achievement in Music for Dance
John Zeretzke and Laura Dean: for Light (Aman International Music and Dance Company).
Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design
Francine Le Coultre: The Nutcracker (Los Angeles Chamber Ballet)
Outstanding Achievement in Set Design
Yu-Ming Chien: The Nutcracker (Los Angeles Chamber Ballet).
Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Design
Stephen Bennett: for a program of Hae Kyung Lee choreography
Outstanding Achievement in Restaging/Revival/Reconstruction
Bonnie Oda Homsey and Janet Eilber: Weeping Women in Dance
Outstanding Achievement in Staging Traditional Dance
Aman International Music and Dance Company (30th anniversary program)
Special Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Teaching
Stanley Holden
Sustained Achievement
Bella Lewitzky
Special Award: Don Hewitt
for Dance Kaleidoscope
DRC Thank-You Awards
Martin Kagan and the Dance Gallery; Duane Ebata and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center; David Plettner: outgoing DRC board member
1993 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Loretta Livingston & Dancers Grandma Moses Project
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Individual
Mehmet Sander ,Single Space
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Stephanie Gilliland ,Coriolanius
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design
Liz Stillwell, Los Angeles Chamber Ballet Concert
Outstanding Achievement in Revival
Restaging or Reconstruction Jazz Tap Ensemble ,Tribute and Doxi
Outstanding Achievement in Sound, Music, Score, Text
David Karagianis, Rose Polsky and Dancers
Outstanding Achievement in Staging Traditional Dance
Danza Floricanto/USA (Entire Concert) Gemma Sandoval
Staging Traditional Dance
Ramaa Bharadvaj and the Angahara Dancers: for Nadanta Natanam.
Special Awards
Special Dance Award
Lewis Segal: Dance writer: Los Angeles Times
Sustained Achievement in Teaching
Don Hewitt
Sustained Achievement in Teaching
Gary Bates
Sustained Achievement
Judith Scalin (Loyola Marymount University)
Board of Directors Award
Jody Leader: Dance writer: Los Angeles Daily News
1992 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Mehmet Sander Dance Company, Board Stiff
Outstanding Achievement in Performance/Individual
Loretta Livingston, Don't Fall Pomegranate and Lori DuPeron Rope Dance
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Loretta Livingston, A History of Restlessness-
Outstanding Achievement in Staging Traditional Dance
Ahmet Luleci Halay, Turkish Men's Dance, Aman Folk Ensemble
Outstanding Achievement in Revival
Restaging or Reconstruction: Los Angeles Chamber Ballet, Group Portrait: Satoh Piece by Mary Jane Eisenber
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design
Eileen Cooley, Crash Test Dummies and Other Love Songs Lori DuPeron, It Squad
Outstanding Achievement in Sound/Music/Score/Text
Eric Ruskin, L.A. Chamber Ballet Tunnel
Special Awards
Lula and Erwin Washington for hosting the 5th Annual Black Dance Companies Conference and Showcase
Sustained Achievement Awards
Lola Montes and Gloria Newman
1991 HORTON AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Company
Loretta Livingston & Dancers
Outstanding Achievement in Performance - Individual
Rudy Perez: Victoria Koenig ,Kiss
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Loretta Livingston, Window in the Passage: Stephanie Gilliland, Spell: Still Creating the World
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design
Loretta Livingston, A Window in the Passage: Doc Ballard: lighting; Martha Ferrara: costumes
Outstanding Achievement in Revival, Restaging, or Reconstruction
Bella Lewitzky (entire retrospective)
Outstanding Achievement in Sound/Music/Score/Text
Butch Rovan, Stephanie Gilliland, Spell, Still Creating the World
Special Awards
Donald Hewitt for producing Dance Kaleidoscope
The Dance Resource Center board of directors award
David Leahy
Sustained Achievement
Eddie Brown
Special Award
Bella Lewitzky, In the Works lecture/demonstrations sponsored by the Dance Gallery
Life Achievement award
Bella Lewitzky
