Lani Dickinson’s power, grace, and raw presence make her a standout with AXIS Dance Company, whose mission is to change the face of dance and disability by featuring a mix of disabled and non-disabled performers. Born in China, Dickinson was adopted by an American couple and started dancing at 8 in Towson, MD. She attended […]
This year’s Princess Grace Award winners were announced yesterday—and they include some very familiar faces. The Princess Grace crowd is an incredibly distinguished bunch. Past winners in the dance category include Skylar Brandt, Beckanne Sisk, Isabella Boylston, Sarah Lane, Drew Jacoby, Tiler Peck, Cindy Salgado, David Hallberg, Michelle Dorrance, and Gillian Murphy—to name just a […]
Each year, the Princess Grace Awards highlights outstanding achievement and potential in performance and choreography. Basically, they give a super prestigious award to deserving members of the dance community, and it just so happens that we’ve usually had our eye on the same folks. This year, Camille A. Brown and Leslie Odom Jr. won the […]
In the dance world, winning the Princess Grace Award is like walking around with a neon sign over your head that says “I’m legit.” The Princess Grace Foundation honors emerging artists in dance, theater and film, and winners receive prize money to help support their careers or projects. Jacqueline Green (photo by Gert Krautbauer) Since […]
Onstage, Andrea Parson appears trapped in lamplight, like a moth. Rapid-fire spoken words set her pace and for the next 15 minutes, she seems to teeter on the edge of sanity. At one moment, her foot spirals upward, searches above her head, past her ear—then whacks the floor. At another, her arm cuts like a […]