Rolex presents “AMERICA
DANCES! Celebrating Our Sparkling Heritage –
Broadway, TV & Film”- Career Transition For Dancers’
24th Anniversary Jubilee
on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 7:00 pm at New York
City Center, 131 West 55 Street (bet. 7 & 6 Aves)
NYC. Patrick Swayze (1952 – 2009) will be honored
posthumously with the 2009 Rolex Dance Award. The
Career Transition For Dancers' Awards for
Outstanding Contributions to the World of Dance will
be given to Lawrence Herbert and the Lloyd E. Rigler
- Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation. The show
will be followed by an “Anniversary Supper with the
Stars” at The Grand Ballroom at The Hilton New
York.
“AMERICA
DANCES! Celebrating Our Sparkling Heritage –
Broadway, TV & Film”
celebrates a variety of
entertainment that defines our American
culture—Past, Present and Future. This eclectic
evening is an assimilation and fusion of styles that
move from theater to concert dance, to television
and film, in a vibrant homage to an array of dance
genres. . A film montage will pay tribute to the
crazes and evolution of American dance. Some
of the talent for the show will include: American
Ballet Theatre’s Ethan Stiefel, Ashley Bouder &
Andrew Veyette from New York City Ballet, Laura
Benanti, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Cedar Lake
Contemporary Ballet, “Dancing with the Stars,”
Jacques d’Amboise,
Electric
Boogaloo’s Mr. Wiggles, Nicole Fosse, Valerie
Harper, Lombard Twins, Lori Belilove & The Isadora
Duncan Dance Company, Kathleen Marshall, Melanie
LaPatin and Tony Meredith’s Dance Times Square,
Metropolitan Opera’s Samuel Ramey,
Ann Reinking,
Rock Steady Crew,
John Selya,
“So You
Think You Can Dance,” Sophisticated Ladies -
Tribute to Duke Ellington, Jock Soto, “Step UP 3”,
The Street Beats Group, Tap City Youth Ensemble, and
Sonya Tayeh Dance with other stars and surprises TBA.
It is produced & directed by Ann Marie DeAngelo.
Artists
and program subject to change without notice.
The Jubilee
Chair is Michele Herbert and the 24th
Anniversary Chairs are Anka K. Palitz and Allen
Brill. Gala Chairs are: Victor Elmaleh, Michele
Riggi, James D. Rigler, Susan Fawcett Sosin, and
Lisa Niemi Swayze. The Dinner Chair is Janice
Becker; Auction Chairs are Ann Van Ness & Heléne
Alexopoulos Warrick; West Coast Chair is Roberta
Silbert; Journal Chairs are Richard A. Perdue and
Thomas Porter. Vice Chairs are Gayle Conran,
Alexander J. Dubé,
Mercedes Ellington, Niko Elmaleh, Christina Rose,
and Irene Shen.
The Honorary Chairs are Cynthia Gregory, Angela
Lansbury, Donna McKechnie, Sono Osato, Ann Reinking,
Chita Rivera, and Tommy Tune.
(in
formation)
Career
Transition For Dancers
with offices
in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago has
helped over 4,100 professional dancers identify
their unique talents in preparation for establishing
new careers when dance is no longer an option. Since
its founding in 1985, the organization has provided
more than 41,000 hours (equivalent to over $4
million) of one-on-one career counseling and program
services - at no cost - and has awarded millions of
dollars in scholarships for education and
entrepreneurial grants.
CTFD also provides dancers with
specialized services that include transition
seminars and workshops, peer support groups,
resource centers, a toll-free national career
counseling hotline, a website, and a National Career
Network.
www.careertransition.org
Gala tickets
are $600, $750 & $1,200 each, which include the
performance and a post-performance “Anniversary
Supper with the Stars”, live auction and dancing at
The Grand Ballroom at The Hilton New York (1335
Avenue of the Americas @ 54th St).
Sponsorships and tables are also available as well
as Jubilee Journal ads. For gala tickets please
call Marjorie Horne, McEvoy & Assocs. at 212
228-7446 x33 and for Group Sales please call 718
499-9691. Show only tickets are $130, $75, $55, and
$45 at the Box Office, through
CityTix 212 581-1212, and at
www.nycitycenter.org
.