Charmaine Warren
  • Home
    • About Me
  • Up Next
  • Dance
    • Dance/Education
    • Dance/Performances
  • Yoga
    • Yoga/Classes
    • Yoga/Workshops
  • Consulting
  • Writing
  • Blogspot
  • Suggested Links
  • Contact Me

The 2014 Martha Hill Dance Fund Honors Mary Hinkson, Martha Myers, and John-Mario Sevilla

11/1/2014

0 Comments

 
This year, the Martha Hill Dance Fund we will honor dance legends Mary Hinkson and Martha Myers with our Lifetime Achievement Award, and John-Mario Sevilla with our Mid-Career Award. Our Young Professional Award will also be presented, with the recipient designated by Jacob’s Pillow.  Martha Hill’s former students, renowned choreographers Henning Rübsam and Mark Haim, are serving as Gala Chair and Master of Ceremonies.

Find out more here
ABOUT THE RECIPIENTS:

Born in Philadelphia, Mary Hinkson received her first dance training in a eurhythmics class in high school. She then studied dance with Margaret H’Doubler at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, receiving both her B.S. (1946) and M.S. (1947) degrees in physical education. After graduating, Hinkson moved to New York City where she joined the Martha Graham Dance Company in 1951. She remained a principal dancer until 1973. Martha Graham choreographed several roles for Ms. Hinkson, including those in Canticle for Innocent Comedians (1952), Ardent Song (1955), and Circe (1963). In addition to her work with Graham, Hinkson created the female role in Donald McKayle's Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder (1959) and danced as a guest artist with the New York City Ballet in George Balanchine's Figure in the Carpet (1960). In 1956, she was Alvin Ailey’s partner in Harry Belafonte's touring revue Sing Man Sing. A much-loved and influential teacher, Ms. Hinkson taught at the Martha Graham School for decades as well as at the Juilliard School, NYC’s High School of Performing Arts, the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, and the Ailey School among many other places. Ms. Hinkson is known for having broken racial boundaries throughout her career in both ballet and modern dance.

American Dance Festival Dean Emeritus Martha Myers has been a teacher, dancer, choreographer, film producer, television personality, and writer. She served as the Director of Women’s News for WBNS-TC in Columbus, Ohio, and was co-producer, writer and narrator for a collection of programs called “A Time to Dance” which were extensively used for dance courses in colleges and universities. Ms. Myers joined the dance faculty at Connecticut College in 1967, founded its dance department in 1971, and led the department until 1992. One of her first important moves at Connecticut College (which was all-women when she joined the faculty) was to gather some men from Wesleyan University to join female students in her new ground-breaking initiative The Experimental Movement Lab which focused on improvisation and the idea of “play” through movement. In 1969, she was named Dean of the American Dance Festival School, where she pioneered the study of dance medicine and somatics as well as mentoring literally thousand of dancers. She retired from ADF in 2000. In 2002, she received the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. Ms. Myers received an undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and an M.S. from Smith College.

Hailing from Maui, John-Mario Sevilla is the Director of the 92nd StreetY’s Harkness Dance Center and a faculty member at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He was previously the director of the Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) at 92Y and the Director of Education for New York City Ballet. Mr. Sevilla has danced in the companies of Pilobolus, Rebecca Stenn, From the Horse’s Mouth, Daman Harun, Erin Dudley, Lisa Giobbi, Nikolais/Louis, Shapiro and Smith, Janis Brenner, Anna Sokolow and Bill Cratty. He has also performed with juggler Michael Moschen, film animator Laura Margulies, drag artist Sherry Vine, poet John Unterecker and Navajo sandpainter-healer Walking Thunder.

His choreography has been presented at LaMaMa, Movement Research at Judson Church, 92Y Tribeca, Dance Theatre Workshop, ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, The Asia Society, Bronx Academy of Art and Dance, as well as many universities. Mr. Sevilla holds an MA in Dance Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He started dancing hula as a toddler with his older sisters as his mentors, then he became a Philippine folk dancer through his teens. A life-long student of Betty Jones and Fritz Ludin, he now studies the hula, formerly with Kumu Hula June Ka‘ililani Tanoue and presently with Kumu Hula Hōkūlani Holt.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Never miss a post
    Your email address:*
    Please enter all required fields
    Correct invalid entries
    Please choose a color:

    Categories

    All
    Articles
    Audition
    Grants
    Intensives
    Interviews
    Lecture
    News
    Opportunities
    Performance Calendars
    Positions
    Previews
    Video-clips
    What I Saw
    Workshops

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    May 2012

    RSS Feed

    My LinkedIn Profile

    Author

    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

    "About Me"
Proudly powered by Weebly