A look inside this year’s Chita Rivera Awards, which celebrates excellence in dance on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in film.
And what a night of collaboration it was. Produced by Joe Lanteri, founder and executive director of the New York City Dance Alliance Foundation Inc., in conjunction with Patricia Watt, the event raised funds for The New York City Dance Alliance Foundation College Scholarship Program. Since its inception, the organization has awarded $4 million dollars to more than 400 dancers to help them attend the most prestigious college dance programs in the country.
The evening brought together some of the world's finest dancers and choreographers. The Chita Rivera Awards are unique because they celebrate and recognize ensemble members, who are the backbone of and play key roles in shows. At this years ceremony, two Broadway dance ensembles Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ and New York, New York were Awarded Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway Show.
“When I was a Broadway dancer we wanted to know that what we were doing was important," says Andy Blankenbuehler, the prolific choreographer and director who choreographed Hamilton, In the Heights and was celebrated at the awards for outstanding choreography for his show,. . “The Chita Rivera Awards do that. They recognize our contribution at dancers, but more important our contribution as ensemble members and not stars.
At this year’s Chita Rivera Awards, John Kander received the Lifetime Achievement Award, BroadwayHD, founded by Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane, received the Ambassadors For The Arts Award, and Jeffrey L. Page were given the Douglas and Ethel Watt Critics’ Choice Award. And for the first time the Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Show category was gender-free.Show. The ensemble from New York, New York also won.
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