Listed below are the newest promotions, appointments, and departures, in addition to notable awards and accomplishments, from February 2024.
Comings & Goings
Béjart Ballet Lausanne has terminated the contract of inventive director Gil Roman, efficient April 30.
Wen Wei Wang will step down as inventive director of Ballet Edmonton on the finish of the present season. He might be succeeded by Kirsten Wicklund, efficient in August.
Vicki Capote, Sara Roer, and Candace Thompson-Zachery have been named co-executive administrators of Dance/NYC.
Cara Lonergan has been appointed government director of BalletCollective.
Lincoln Heart for the Performing Arts president and CEO Henry Timms will depart the group in August.
Royal Ballet principal Alexander Campbell will give his closing efficiency with the corporate on March 8. He has been appointed inventive director of the Royal Academy of Dance, efficient in April.
Guillaume Côté will retire from the Nationwide Ballet of Canada in June 2025.
Minnesota Dance Theatre, led by Elayna Waxse since January (after taking up from interim inventive director Kaitlyn Gilliland), will pause operations of its performing firm on the finish of Might. The corporate’s affiliated college will proceed.
The Cowles Heart in Minneapolis will stop operations of the Goodale Theater, discontinuing dance shows, on March 31.
Awards & Honors
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar will obtain the 2024 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Competition Award, which features a $50,000 prize, in July.
Recipients of Basis for Modern Arts’ 2024 Grants to Artists awards included Petra Bravo (Dorothea Tanning Award), Joanna Kotze, and Hsiao-Jou Tang (Viola Farber Award). Every will obtain a $45,000 unrestricted grant.
Michael Manson (Home of Jit) is a part of the inaugural cohort of the Gilbert Household Basis’s Seed and Bloom: Detroit program, by means of which he’ll obtain a $150,000 grant over a three-year residency in addition to extra institutional help.
On the Venice Biennale, Cristina Caprioli will obtain the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Trajal Harrell the Silver Lion.
Faye Driscoll received an Obie Award for course for Weathering at New York Dwell Arts.
