Emory Dance Program Awards

Friends of Dance Summer Scholarship Award

The Friends of Dance Summer Scholarship Program was established in 1996 to make summer dance study more accessible to Emory students. It enables a student to study either in the United States or abroad with notable practicing artists, dance programs, and dance companies of his or her choice.

Past Recipients:

1996: Jennifer Gorevitz - Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

1997: Courtney King - Colorado Dance Festival

1998: Rachel Stephens - Colorado Dance Festival

1999: Crystal Davis - American Dance Festival; Julia Townsend - Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

2000: Katherine Dunn - White Mountain Summer Dance Festival

2001: Amy Gish - Risa Steinber Workshop NY; Anita Kim - Atlanta Ballet; Rhyan Linthicum - Southern Ballet Theater

2002: Erin Miles - Varone Workshop at University of Maryland; Douachee Kue - Off Jazz in France; Kathleen Wessel - American Dance Festival at Duke University; Lauren Gordon - California

2003: Rosanne Benavente - American Dance Festival at Duke University, Haley Byrd - The Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO, Wesley Lim - Peridance Center, NY, Justin Ringgold - Polytechnic University, Maecy Spirito - Dance Space Center, NY, Nina Stratt - American Dance Festival at Duke University, Kathleen Wessel - American Dance Festival at Duke University

2004: Keisha Calderon - Bates College Dance Festival, Ashley Miller - Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy and Boston Conservatory, Lillian Ransijn - American Dance Festival at Duke University

2005: Pooja Lodhia - National Dance Critics Conference, Cara Lynch - Bates College Dance Festival, Mitchell N. Sweeney - American Dance Festival at Duke University

2006: Sharon Sibley and Mitchell N. Sweeney - American Dance Festival at Duke University

2007: Irfana Jetha and Ellen Lyle - American Dance Festival at Duke University

"This summer opened up a world of possibilities for me, not only in dance, but in self-exploration and identity as well. I stumbled upon the depth of what a dancer can say through movement, and was in awe of the power that lies in expressing what dancers as individuals have to say"

-- Julia Townsend

"A solid month of dance from the inside out felt revolutionary to my body. A more internal approach to dance altered my technique, my movment learning patterns, and my stage presence...With this perspective, I could allow the choreography of others to enter and find its own life in my body"

-- Courtney King

Pioneer Award

Nominated and selected by Emory Dance Faculty and awarded to a senior who is "breaking new ground." This award recognizes creative application and creative potential in the field of dance. It is defined by an in-depth investigation in technique, performance, choreography or movement studies

Additional Criteria:

Making new discoveries about how creative expression interacts with the world
Engaged in the process of moving and creating movement
Articulating fully
Development of personal voice through movement

Past Recipients:

1997: Jennifer Gorevitz-to acknowledge her diverse discoveries and her passionate approach in pursuing these investigations
1997: Danh Ngo- Recognizing his intuitive process and unique moving voice
1998: John Paul Egbert- Recognizing his pursuit to discover, understand, and invent movement
1999: Kate Balzer- Acknowledging her thoughtful, steadfast and creative pursuit in the field of dance
1999: Hallee Pitterman- Recognizing her initiative, leadership and research in the field of movement studies
2000: Crystal Davis-Recognizing her interdisciplinary study in religion and dance and her transformative power as a performer
2001: Blake Beckham
2002: Lauren Gordon and Jacqulyn Levy
2003: Kathleen Wessel
2004: Julian Chung
2005: Rose Benavente, Maecy Spirito
2006: Ruth Porter
2007: Natalie Metzger

The Sudler Prize in the Arts

The Sudler Prize was established at Emory in 1983 by Mr. Louis Sudler, a Chicago businessman, musician, and philanthropist, who has also endowed the same award at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Darthmouth, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Chicago, Michigan State, Oberlin, Purdue, Duke, Rice, and Stanford. It is awarded to seniors who have made the most significant contributions to the arts at Emory.

Emory Dance Program Winners:

Dardi McGinley (Art History Major, Dance Minor) 1990

Trecarcia Yancey (English Major, Dance Minor) 1996

Margaret Courtney King (French Major, Dance Minor) 1999

Blake Elizabeth Beckham (Double Major, English and Dance) 2001

Natalie Metzger (Double Major, Theater Studies and Dance) 2007

Woman's Club Arts Scholarship

Meredith Hicks, class of 2001, was named the first recipient in a series of scholarships established by the Emory University Woman's Club. The award went to dance student Hicks (a double major in English and Dance), while future scholarships will rotate among film, music, and theater studies.

Destiny Parker, a double major in Dance and Political Science, received this award in 2004.

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