Dignitaries present included Japan’s U.N. representative Ambassador
Motohide Yoshikawa; Ambassador Sumio Kusaka, Consul of
Japan; philanthropist
David Rockefeller, Jr.; Agnes
Gund, President Emerita, The Museum of Modern Art; Timothy
McCarthy, The Willem de Kooning Foundation; Lynn
Wichern, Executive Director, Merce Cunningham Trust; Dr.
Christoph Bartmann, Institut Director, Goethe-Institute
New York; Paul
Smyke, Senior Director, North America, World Economic
Forum USA; Anna
Kisselgoff, former Chief Dance Critic, The New York
Times; and Lane
Harwell, Dance/NYC.
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Guy Kohn, John Ruesch and Debra Kohn front
row ,
Back Row Jeanne Atkinson,Sherry Baroness
Von Koeber, David Lees, Steven Yorra |