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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 few. Here are the dancers and choreographers joining their ranks this year:
DANCE
Jacquelin Harris
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Andrew Eccles, courtesy AAADT
We talked with the ferociously talented Harris
soon after she joined AAADT
.
Mikaela Kelly
Juilliard School of Dance
Look for Mikaela (and her gorgeous feet) in our September issue!
Miriam Miller
New York City Ballet
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Lucas Chilczuk
As if you needed an excuse to revisit our
September 2016 cover story
on the exceptionally elegant NYCB corps member.
Gian Carlo Perez
The Washington Ballet
Lyvan Verdecia
Ballet Hispanico
CHOREOGRAPHY
Bryan Arias
For work made for Charlotte Ballet
Gemma Bond
For work made for The Washington Ballet
Bond, who's also an American Ballet Theatre corps member, discussed her choreographic inspirations in our
February 2017
issue.
Raja Feather Kelly
For work made for Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
STATUE AWARD
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards
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Matthew Karas
The fabulous tapper won her first Princess Grace Award back in 1994. (The Statue Awards honor previous winners who've continued to do exceptional work.) Read her inspiring
"Letter to My Teenage Self."
CHOREOGRAPHY MENTORSHIP CO-COMMISSION AWARD
Zoe Scofield
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Andrea Miller
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Matthew Karas
The piercingly intelligent choreographer's trailblazing company, Gallim Dance, starred on our
February 2017 cover
.