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Ballet Austin’s ‘New American Talent/Dance’ winnings announced
The judges have decided. And their $15,000 in discretionary prize monies have been allocated.
Judges for Ballet Austin’s ‘New American Talent/Dance’ — the biennial choreography competition now in performance at Ballet Austin’s Austin Ventures Studio Theater — have announced their awards decision.
Houston’s Dominic Walsh and Nelly van Bommel of New York each received $6,000. KT Nelson of San Francisco’s ODC/Dance was awarded $3,000.
The jurors were Alicia Adams, the Kennedy Center’s vice president of international touring; Julie Nakagawa, artistic director and co-founder of Chicago’s DanceWorks’ and Paul Vasterling, artistic director of the Nashville Ballet. Each judge had a $5,000 discretionary fund to allocate.
A ground-breaking biennial competition, ‘New American Talent/Dance’ brings together three choreographers as chosen by three internationally renowned judges. Choreographers are given a stipend and the opportunity to create new work for the Ballet Austin dancers.
Additional prize money of will be awarded to the choreographer garnering the most audience votes each night. Those prizes will be announced next week.
Click here for a review of ‘New American Talent/Dance.’
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By Lindsay
March 30, 2010 11:44 AM | Link to this
I don’t like to play favorites, or do I?
1 - Nelly van Bommel (An authentic, natural, point of view that is very much relavent, yet maybe un-expected and fresh) 2 - KT Nelson (Demonstrates great experience, craftsmanship, and feeling. However, the feelings may have been misguided through the execution of themes and tone that tended to lean towards being too harsh) 3 - Dominic Walsh (Most commercial and relateable for all of the wrong reasons. Still, the piece was semi-sweet, semi-sentimental, semi-good, and that was only because of the dancers who did a great job dancing the “more than semi-bad” choreography)