SARATOGA SPRINGS – The National Museum of Dance announces Lucinda Childs and Alfredo Corvino as the 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame inductees. The induction ceremony will take place at the Museum’s annual gala on Saturday, August 11, 2018. This year the gala will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Museum’s School of the Arts.
Lucinda Childs, born in New York City in 1940, began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 where she performed and choreographed several dance works. Since forming her own company in 1973, she has created over fifty dances. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 and since 1981 has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies around the world including the Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project and has worked as a choreographer and director for sixteen opera productions. Childs received the Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in 2001 and was elevated from the rank of Officer to Commander in France’s Order of Arts and Letters in 2004, and in 2009 received the NEA/NEFA American Masterpiece Award. In 2017, she was awarded the Venice Biennale de la Danse Golden Lion Award and the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Alfredo Corvino (1916-2005) was born in Uruguay where he studied at the National Academy of Ballet. Corvino toured internationally first as a member of the Jooss Ballet and later as a soloist with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and with Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, among others. He joined the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and subsequently became Ballet Master, where he taught for nearly twenty years. He was on the faculty of The Juilliard School for 42 years and founded and directed his own school in New York City, the Dance Circle. Corvino choreographed for and directed the New Jersey Dance Theater Guild for ten years. He served as panelist to the New York State Council on the Arts and at the time of his passing was Ballet Master to Pina Bausch/Tanztheater Wuppertal. Corvino was the recipient of many awards including the 2002 Martha Hill Award for Leadership in Dance. In May 2003 he had the distinction of receiving an Honorary Doctorate from The Juilliard School and in May 2005 he was awarded the Juilliard Centennial Medal.
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