2021 Panelists
choreographer, dancer, Herb Alpert Award winner
New York
reporter/writer
Bogotá, Colombia
artistic director, Fisher Center, Bard College and senior curator, Open Society University Network’s Center for the Arts and Human Rights
Annandale-on-Hudson and Brooklyn, NY
scholar, maker, and teacher of activist media, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY
independent curator, scholar, archivist, and researcher, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
Rochester, NY
filmmaker, Herb Alpert Award winner, Professor of Asian American Studies, director of the Center for EthnoCommunications, UCLA
Los Angeles
composer-pianist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, The Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music, Newcomb College in the School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University
New Orleans
composer-pianist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, Harvard University
New York
composer, sound artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Associate Professor, Director, Sound Art Program, Columbia University
New York
playwright, singer, composer, actor, Herb Alpert Award Artist
Brooklyn, New York
theater maker, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York
playwright, professor, head of graduate playwriting, University of California, San Diego, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Diego, CA
Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Dar Jacir for Art and Research
Bethlehem
artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Professor of Art and Director of Graduate Studies, Northwestern University
Chicago
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| Name |
Genre |
Year | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Jenkins | Dance | 2004 |
artistic director/choreographer, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
San Francisco, CA |
| Laura Faure | Dance | 2003 |
producer and director, Bates Dance Festival
Lewiston, ME |
| Elizabeth Streb | Dance | 2002 |
choreographer, director of STREB
New York |
| Cathy Weis | Dance | 2001 |
choreographer/video artist
New York |
| Gus Solomons Jr. | Dance | 1998 |
dancer and choreographer
New York |
| Garth Fagan | Dance | 2005 |
choreographer, founder/ artistic director, Garth Fagan Dance
Rochester, NY |
| Deidre Sklar | Dance | 2004 |
performance theorist, professor, dance, Texas Woman’s University
Denton, TX |
| Ralph Lemon | Dance | 2003 |
choreographer/author
New York, NY |
| William Whitener | Dance | 2002 |
artistic director, Kansas City Ballet; choreographer
Kansas City, MO |
| Wendy Rogers | Dance | 2005 |
choreographer, WENDY ROGERS dancing; professor, UC Riverside
Riverside, CA |
| Eva Yaa Asantewaa | Dance | 2004 |
dance critic
New York, NY |
| Remy Charlip | Dance | 1998 |
artist director, The International All-Star Dance Co.
San Francisco, CA |
| David Gere | Dance | 2006 |
dance theorist, AIDS activist; acting chair, World Arts and Cultures, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA |
| Debra Singer | Dance | 2005 |
executive director/chief curator, The Kitchen
New York, NY |
| Ann Carlson | Dance | 2013 |
Choreographer
Palo Alto, CA |
| Trisha Brown | Dance | 1995 |
choreographer
New York, NY |
| Aviva Davidson | Dance | 2007 |
executive director and producer, Dancing in the Streets
New York, NY |
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