He had started under the tutelage of Lester Horton, a charismatic dance mentor in Los Angeles, where Ailey grew up.
The dramaturg, festival director and dance mentor Peggy Olislaegers argued the case for the thrilling chemistry that can be sparked when choreographers and dancers remake the classics of the past, and find a creative meeting place between different epochs.
For example, a recent submission came from a flamenco dance teacher at an elementary school in Washington, D.C., who was inspired by her own dance mentor to forgo a career in professional dance in instead go into education.
The Bessies, formally known as the New York Dance and Performance awards, and established in 1983 are named for the dance educator and mentor Bessie Schonberg.
Established in 1983 by David R. White and originally produced by Dance Theater Workshop, the Bessies, named after the dance educator and mentor Bessie Schonberg, were geared mainly toward experimental, noncommercial work and were in dire need of a makeover.
Mr. Dorfman applied and began studying at 23. There, at Connecticut College, he met the woman he still calls his "dance mom and mentor," Martha Myers, who founded the college's dance department and was its chairwoman from 1971 to 1992.
VENICE — At a presentation at La Fenice opera house here on Monday, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative announced the artists who will serve as the 2014-15 mentors in dance, visual arts, film, theater, literature, music and architecture.
The Canadian author Margaret Atwood and the French theater director Patrice Chereau are among the six artists who will serve as mentors in dance, film, literature, music, theater and visual arts as part of a program sponsored by Rolex.
The Canadian author Margaret Atwood and the French theater director Patrice Chéreau are among the six artists who will serve as mentors in dance, film, literature, music, theater and visual arts as part of a program sponsored by Rolex.
Community Works, started in 1990, brings artists and mentors in dance, theater, music and literature into the schools and neighborhoods and created the "harlem is... .. traveling exhibition to document Harlem's legacy.
