Tag: dance teacher summit

Congrats to the 2018 Capezio A.C.E. Awards Winners!

What’s better than a competition that gives promising choreographers a whole bunch of funding? How about a competition that also puts on a must-see show as part of the process? That’s the genius model of the Capezio A.C.E. Awards. Every year since 2009, the contest has brought upwards of a dozen finalists, selected from a […]

Calling All Choreographers: It's A.C.E. Awards Time!

Hello all you lovely, creative people! Are you possibly the world’s next choreographic genius? Do you want $15,000 to produce your very own show? Of course you are—we’ve seen how much talent y’all have!—and of course you do. Which makes us especially happy to announce that the 2016 Capezio A.C.E. Awards competition is now accepting […]

Dance Superstars Collide in Lindsay Nelko's Awakening

Last night at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Lindsay Nelko—the Second Runner Up at the 2013 Capezio A.C.E. Awards—premiered her show Awakening as a part of the A.C.E. Awards Winners Festival. I count myself as lucky to have been in the audience, witnessing the next big step for this up-and-coming choreographer. Joseph Kudra and Acacia […]

Maggie & Nicole Recap the 2014 Capezio A.C.E. Awards Show

Chaz Buzan in Talia Favia’s The Difference Between Action and Words (photo by Kyle Froman) It felt pretty glamorous to be a DS editor this weekend. We all dressed to the nines for the 2014 Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards—one of the highlights of the Dance Teacher Summit, an impressive annual extravaganza presented […]

Choreographer Lindsay Nelko Talks Awakening

Lindsay Nelko (photo by Kristen Sawatzky) At last year’s Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards in NYC, Lindsay Nelko tied for third place, winning $3,000 to produce her own show in conjunction with Capezio and Break the Floor Productions. Next week, we’ll see the fruits of that partnership: Nelko will present the world premiere […]

Choreographers: How'd You Like to Win $15,000?

Winner Melinda Sullivan (third from left) at the 2012 Capezio A.C.E. Awards (photo by Matthew Murphy) We’ve been getting super pumped up about this year’s Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards for the past several months: We’ve been reminiscing about past winners—like Travis Wall, Melinda Sullivan, and Peter Chu—and encouraging you to put your […]

Congrats to the 2013 Capezio A.C.E. Award Winners!

The Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards were held last night at the Dance Teacher Summit—and what a show this year’s 15 finalists put on. In fact, the entries were so collectively strong that the judges ended up choosing four, rather than the usual three, winners. Congrats to grand prize winner Erica Sobol for […]

Celebrating Choreographers

Melinda Sullivan (third from left) and crew at the 2012 A.C.E. Awards. Photo by Matthew Murphy. It’s not too hard for us to pick out up-and-coming dancers when every competition we attend is sure to have several standouts. Emerging choreographers, on the other hand, are relatively difficult to find, because creating high-quality work is expensive […]