December 31st: Jacob's Pillow: Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellows Program, December 31st: New England Presenter Travel Fund, December 31st: Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Scholarship, December 31st: 24 Seven Dance Convention, December 31st: National Theater Project Presenter Travel Grant, December 31st: Breck Creek Artist-in-Residence Program, December 31st: Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency Program, January 22nd: Opera America Grants, March 3rd: Dance | NYC: Dance Workforce Resilience (DWR) Fund, March 31st: SIA Foundation Grants
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“There is a serious lack of women creating ballet,” Seiwert said. “There’s starting to be a shift in that dynamic. I don’t think it’s because women can’t choreograph ballet, it usually has to do with opportunity.”
The Telegraph discusses female work in its decade review of dance.
The only full-length world premiere for a main company choreographed by a woman is again featured: Amy Seiwert’s The Nutcracker.
An innovative line-up offers documentary dance set in a psychiatric hospital and a piece invoking First Nation ceremonies
Dayton Ballet casts a woman as The Nutcracker this year.
Despite box office success and critical praise, female filmmakers are largely being left out of Hollywood’s awards season.
The Chicago Tribune’s roundup of dance in Chicago in 2019 includes a lot of praise for the Harris Theater, led by women.
Alexandra Waterbury is not going to back down – the victim once again calls out the men who harassed her as one stars in West Side Story.
Honorable female mentions in The Washington Post’s roundup of 2019 dance.
In 2019, older works bristled with fresh energy, Joaquin Phoenix reminded us how an actor’s body can speak louder than words and tap came flying back.
