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Clive Barnes Award Winner and Nominees Are Announced
Nominees (and one winner) have been announced for the eighth edition of the Clive Barnes Awards, which honor young artists in dance and theater.
The dance award, which has already been decided, will go to Gemma Bond, an American Ballet Theater dancer and choreographer. Gia Kourlas, who reviewed this year’s Joyce Ballet Festival in The New York Times, wrote that of 21 dances presented by five companies, only Ms. Bond’s “Then and Again” stood out.
“Both delicate and forthright, ‘Then and Again’ is strengthened by Ms. Bond’s focus on the women,” Ms. Kourlas wrote. “They form a sort of sisterhood, moving as one — and seemingly breathing as one — which gives the dance its gossamer sheen.”
Nominees for the theater award include Evan Ruggiero and Elena Wang, the two stars of the Off Broadway musical “Bastard Jones,” and Grace Van Patten, whom Ben Brantley of The Times called “uncannily graceful” in Hamish Linklater’s play “The Whirligig.”
The award is named after Clive Barnes, a longtime dance and theater critic for The Times and The New York Post who died in 2008. The selection committee includes his wife, the former Royal Ballet dancer Valerie Taylor-Barnes, and journalists and performers.
Winners will be named on Jan. 8 at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater. Michael Riedel, a theater writer for The New York Post, will return as the ceremony’s host. Robert Fairchild, the former New York City Ballet dancer and star of “An American in Paris” on Broadway, and David Hallberg, an American Ballet Theater principal dancer and author of the memoir “A Body of Work,” will present the awards.
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