Capezio Dance Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The Capezio Dance Awards, presented annually by the Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation, Inc., honor the performer, choreographer, critic, teacher, producer or administrator who has made a significant contribution to the art.

2008 Charles "Chuck" Davis
2007 Carmen de Lavallade
2006 Donald Saddler
2005 Suzanne Farrell
2004 Savion Glover
2003 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre
2002 Michael M. Kaiser
2001 Career Transitions for Dancers
2000 David White
1999 Bella Lewitzky
1998 Jacob's Pillow
1997 Mark Morris
Mark Morris
Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation
1996 Charles Reinhart
Bruce Marks
Eric H. Antoniou/Courtesy of Boston Ballet
1995
Bruce Marks
1994 Urban Bush Women
1993 Dance/USA
1992 Frederic Franklin
1991 John Curry
Katherine Dunham
Darci Kistler
Igor Youskevitch
1990 Jacques d'Amboise
1989 Edward Villella
1988 Charles “Honi” Coles
1987 Fred Astaire
Bob Fosse
Rudolf Nureyev
Jac Venza
1986 Antony Tudor
1985 Doris Hering
1984 William Christensen
Harold Christensen
Lew Christensen
1983 Harvey Lichtenstein
1982 Alwin Nikolais
1981 Dorothy Alexander
1980 Walter Terry
1979 Alvin Ailey
1978 Hanya Holm
1977 Merce Cunningham
1976 Jerome Robbins
1975 Robert Irving
1974 Robert Joffrey
1973 Isadora Bennett
1972 La Meri
Reginald and Gladys Laubin
1971 Arthur Mitchell
1970 William Kolodney
1969 John Martin
1968 Lucia Chase
1967 Paul Taylor
1966 Agnes de Mille
1965 Maria Tallchief
1964 José Limón
1963 Donald McKayle
1962 Barbara Karinska
1961 Ruth St. Denis
1960 Martha Graham
1959 Sol Hurok
1958 Alexandra Danilova
1957 Ted Shawn
1956 Genevieve Oswald
1955 Louis Horst
1954 Doris Humphrey
1953 Lincoln Kirstein
1952 Zachary Solov

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