Past DANCE MAGAZINE AWARD recipients (* Special Award)
2015 Soledad Barrio Marcelo Gomes Karen Kain David Vaughan Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
2014 Brenda Bufalino and Tony Waag Misty Copeland 2005 Clive Barnes Luigi Alessandra Ferri Wayne McGregor Donald McKayle Larissa Saveliev Jimmy Slyde Christopher Wheeldon 2013 Martha Clarke Mats Ek Philip 2004 Jose Manuel Carreño Glass Yuan Chuck Davis Yuan Tan Anna Halprin Patricia Wilde Chita Rivera
2012 Julie Kent 2003 William Forsythe Anna Kisselgoff Susan Jaffe Renee Robinson Jock Soto Dianne Walker Charles and Stephanie Reinhart
2011 Dr. William Hamilton 2002 Nina Ananiashvili Alexei Ratmansky Frank Andersen Kathleen Marshall Jack Mitchell Yvonne Rainer Tina Ramirez Jenifer Ringer 2001 Terese Capucilli 2010 Deborah Jowitt Michael M. Kaiser Pilobolus Dance Theater Susan Stroman Irina Kolpakova Damian Woetzel Matthew Rushing 2000 David Parsons 2009 Allegra Kent Ann Reinking Ohad Naharin Ben Stevenson Sara Rudner Jason Samuels Smith 1999 Barbara Horgan for the Balanchine Trust Al Pischl for Dance Horizons 2008 Pina Bausch Jacques d’Amboise Lawrence Rhodes Martin Fredmann Ethan Stiefel Kevin McKenzie Sylvia Waters 1998 Jeraldyne Blunden 2007 Bettie de Jong Bebe Julio Bocca Neuwirth Desmond Suki Schorer Richardson Wendy Dame Ninette de Valois Whelan 1997 Claude Bessy 2006 Todd Bolender Anna-Marie Holmes and Bruce Marks Eiko & Koma Dudley Williams David Howard Hernando Cortez & Dancers Responding Gelsey Kirkland to AIDS* Joan Myers Brown 1996 Peter Boal 1983 Jeannot Cerrone Savion Glover John Neumeier Francia Russell and Kent Stowell Michael Smuin Ann Barzel* Martine van Hamel
1995 Susan Marshall 1982 Fernando Bujones Carla Maxwell Laura Dean Fayard and Harold Nicholas Arnold Spohr Lee Theodore 1994 Christine Dakin Kate Johnson 1981 Selma Jeanne Cohen Jirí Kylián Sir Anton Dolin Twyla Tharp 1993 Bill T. Jones Stanley Williams Pierre Dulaine and Yvonne Marceau Beatriz Rodriguez 1980 Patricia McBride Ruth Page 1992 Darci Kistler Paul Taylor Meredith Monk Herbert Ross and Nora Kaye* Helgi Tomasson 1979 Aaron Copland 1991 Virginia Johnson Jorge Donn Mark Morris Erick Hawkins Jennifer Tipton 1978 Mikhail Baryshnikov 1990 Garth Fagan Raoul Gelabert Eliot Feld Bella Lewitzky Hanya Holm 1977 Murray Louis 1988 “Dancing for Life” Natalia Makarova Moscelyne Larkin and Roman Jasinski Peter Martins P. W. Manchester Kyra Nichols 1976 Michael Bennett Suzanne Farrell 1987 Merrill Ashley E. Virginia Williams Trisha Brown Liz Thompson 1975 Alvin Ailey David White Cynthia Gregory Doris Hering* Arthur Mitchell
1985 Charles “Honi” Coles 1974 Gerald Arpino Richard Cragun Maurice Béjart Frederic Franklin Antony Tudor Heather Watts Walter Sorell* 1973 The Christensen Brothers (Lew, Harold, Willam) 1984 Alexandra Danilova Rudolf Nureyev Robert Irving 1972 Anthony Dowell Donald Saddler Judith Jamison Tommy Tune Dance Masters of America, Inc.* 1970 Sir Frederick Ashton Carolyn Brown Ted Shawn
1960 Merce Cunningham 1969 Erik Bruhn Igor Moiseyev Katherine Dunham Maria Tallchief Carla Fracci 1959 Dorothy Alexander 1968 Eugene Loring Fred Astaire Alwin Nikolais George Balanchine Violette Verdy 1958 Alicia Alonso 1967 Carmen deLavallade Doris Humphrey Sol Hurok Gene Kelly Wesleyan University Press Igor Youskevitch
1966 Edwin Denby 1957 Lucia Chase Margaret H’Doubler José Limón Maya Plisetskaya Alicia Markova Jerome Robbins 1965 John Butler Peter Gennaro 1956 Agnes de Mille Edward Villella Martha Graham
1964 Gower Champion 1955 Jack Cole Robert Joffrey Gene Nelson Pauline Koner Moira Shearer
1963 Isadora Bennett 1954 Dance on TV: Adventure (CBS) Margot Fonteyn Bob Fosse Tony Charmoli (NBC)
1962 Melissa Hayden Max Liebman (NBC) Anna Sokolow Gwen Verdon Omnibus (CBS)