FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2014 Contact Person: Daria Kaufman Email: [email protected] Phone: (805) 680-7299

28th ANNUAL ISADORA DUNCAN DANCE AWARDS CEREMONY, TO BE HELD AT BRAVA THEATER ON MARCH 24, 2014 WITH A STELLAR LIST OF HOSTS AND PRESENTERS

San Francisco, California, February 25, 2014 - - The 28th Annual Isadora Duncan Dance Awards ceremony will be held on March 24, 2014 at Brava Theater in . The evening’s festivities will begin with a reception from 6 to 7pm, followed by the awards ceremony from 7 to 8pm. Cupcakes will be served after the ceremony. The event is free and open to the public.

Hosting the ceremony will be Joanna Haigood and Rob Bailis. Awards will be presented by Joe Goode, Alex Conde, Patty Ann Farrel, Andy Mogg, Mythili Kumar, Kimi Okada, Kawika Alfiche, Carlos Carvajal, Sam Weber, Anita Paciotti and Michael Lowe. The ceremony will also feature performances by Daiane Lopez Da Silva in collaboration with Yannis Adoniou, Kara Davis and Nicholas Korkos, Babatunji Johnson, Laszio Tihanyi, Dexandro Montalvo, Ryan Fuimaono, and Grant Avenue Follies.

The "Izzies" awards, created in 1984, are designed to celebrate the unique richness, diversity and excellence of Bay Area dance. The Izzies Committee honors local dance artists and promotes their visibility, primarily by acknowledging outstanding achievements within a twelve-month period of performances, running September 1st through August 31st.

Awards are given in nine categories to honor the dancers, choreographers, designers, composers, dance companies, dance scholars and other individuals who have made important contributions to the ’s thriving dance community.

During each 12-month performance cycle, the Committee collectively views over 400 eligible performances. The final nominees and honorees are selected at an annual voting meeting held in September after the close of the viewing cycle. The Izzies Committee members are choreographers, dancers, teachers, critics, writers, and arts administrators who serve one- or three-year terms. Member profiles and lists of previous nominees and award winners are available online at www.izzies.org.

The Izzies operates as a non-profit volunteer association, currently under the fiscal sponsorship of the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley, CA, and is supported by donations from individuals, groups, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

The following is the list of Nominees and Honorees by award category.

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography • Jess Curtis & Jorg Muller, Performance Research Experiment #2:Paradox of the Heart (phase 1), Gravity, CounterPULSE, San Francisco • Jo Kreiter, Niagara Falling, Flyaway Productions, West Wall of the Renoir Hotel, San Francisco • Hsiang Hsiu Lin & Raphael Boumaila, Keyed, sjDANCEco, The California Theater, San Jose • Robert Moses, NEVABAWARLDAPECE, Robert Moses Kin, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • KT Nelson, Brenda Way, Kate Weare, Triangulating Euclid, ODC/Dance, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Amy Seiwert, The Devil Ties My Tongue, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery presents SKETCH 3: Expectations, ODC Theater, San Francisco Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Individual • Joel Brown for his 2013 Season, Axis Dance Company, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland • Frances Chung for her 2013 Season, San Francisco , San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco • Robert Dekkers for his 2012-2013 Season, Diablo Ballet, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek • Robert Henry Johnson, Psalm # 5, Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco • Lavinia Mitchell, Dimensions Dance Theater presents Down the Congo Line, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland

Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Ensemble • Laura Dunlop & Michael Galloway, Being Served, Company C Contemporary Ballet, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek • Brandon Freeman & Katherine Wells, The Devil Ties My Tongue, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery presents SKETCH 3: Expectations, ODC Theater, San Francisco • Karen Gabay & Maykel Solas, Amour Gitan, , San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose • Lonnie Weeks & Luke Willis, The Rite of Spring, , San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco • Aidan DeYoung, Ashley Flaner, Domenico Luciano, Jane Hope Rehm, Christian Squires, Raychel Weiner & Ricardo Zayas, field the present shifts, Post:Ballet, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Company • Los Lupenos de San Jose, Alma de Mexico, Theater, San Jose • Flyaway Productions, Niagara Falling, West Wall of the Renoir Hotel, San Francisco • Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Collaboration with Edgar Meyer, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Smuin Ballet, Petal, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Project Thrust, Kingdom, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance Summer Dance Series, Z Space, San Francisco

Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text • De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association, music; Ritmos Negros Del Peru, Ethnic Dance Festival, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Robert Henry Johnson, text; Psalm # 5, Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco • Patrick Makuakane, text; Birth Certificate Hula, Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, The Hula Show, The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco • Edgar Meyer, music; Collaboration with Edgar Meyer, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Carl Hancock Rux, music; NEVABAWARLDAPECE, Robert Moses’ Kin, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Marvin K. White, text; He Moved Swiftly but Gently Down the Not too Crowded Street: Ed Mock and Other True Tales in a City that Once Was, multiple locations, San Francisco

Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design • Jim Campbell, set design; Constellation, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, LAM Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • Blake Manship, lighting and video; Karl Gillick, scenic design; Simone van der Meer, costume design; Ophelia, created by Carte Blanche, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco • Gretchen Jude, graphic score; Les Stuck, video artist; Imprint, directed by Peiling Kao, Temescal Arts Center, Oakland • Basil Twist, set design; Cinderella, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco • Ann Woo, costume design; The Court Dance of Tang Dynasty, Chinese Performing Arts of America, Spring Festival , International Performing Arts Center, San Jose

Outstanding Achievement in Restaging / Revival / Reconstruction • Hilary Cartwright, restaging of Les Rendezvous by Sir (1933), Ballet San Jose, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose • Holley Farmer, reconstruction of Event with Canfield by Merce Cunningham (1969), The Mills Repertory Dance Company, Haas Pavilion, Mills College, Oakland • Gary Masters and Raphael Boumaila, restaging of The Moor’s Pavane by Jose Limon (1949), sjDANCEco and Diablo Ballet, The California Theater, San Jose & Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek • , restaging of Suite En Blanc by Serge Lifar (1943), San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco

Special Award Honorees Sean Dorsey Dance Co. - The Secret History of Love - for revealing the underground ways that the LGBT community survived and found love in decades past, based on extensive archival research and Dorsey’s two-year national LGBT Elders Oral History Project, in which he conducted and recorded oral history interviews with LGBT elders across the United States.

Anna Halprin, Morton Subotnick, Berkeley Art Museum - Parades and Changes - for a stellar final staging of this iconic, ground-breaking work, presented in its original setting at the Berkeley Art Museum, and reuniting Halprin with original composer Subotnick.

The De Young Museum, Department of Costume and Textile Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Centre National du Costume de Scene, Moulins, France, for its exclusive and only U.S. exhibition of "Rudolph Nureyev: A Life in Dance,” which celebrated the life of this renowned dancer, choreographer, , and company director, by presenting more than 70 costumes from various danced or choreographed by Nureyev, as well as a selection of photographs, videos, and ephemera that chronicled his life.

Sustained Achievement Honorees Janice Ross, PhD, for enriching and bringing visibility to Bay Area Dance via her current role as Director of the Dance Division at , her many publications (including the books Anna Halprin, Experience as Dance and San Francisco Ballet at 75), her ten years as staff dance critic for the Oakland Tribune, her twenty years as a contributing editor of Dance Magazine, her service as past president of both the international Society of Dance History Scholars and the Dance Critics Association, and her unflagging public service.

Judith Smith, Artistic Director and Founding Member of Axis Dance Company - an ensemble that includes dancers with and without disabilities - for her high artistic standards, innovative programming and deep commitment to community outreach and education. Smith has not only helped to bring physically integrated dance to the center of the Bay Area dance scene but she has also contributed to making the Bay Area an international center for physically integrated dance.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet, for over 30 years of visionary choreography and dancing that continues to expand the language of ballet for audiences worldwide. An inspired innovator and dedicated part of the Bay Area dance community, King has touched countless artists, students, and non-professional dancers. Moreover, as an investor in our community, King set up one of the first arts centers in the Tenderloin District and has been a pivotal part of this neighborhood's vibrancy and generative vibe.

For additional information, contact:

Daria Kaufman | Email: [email protected] | Phone: (805) 680-7299

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