4th Annual Chita Rivera Awards recognize achievements in dance June 20

Awards4th Annual Chita Rivera Awards recognize achievements in dance June 20

Charlotte d’Amoise and Bianca Marroquín present the ceremony in the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts offers the 4th annual Chita rivera Awards June 20 at 7:30 pm. Charlotte d’Amoise and Bianca Marroquín holds the ceremony as Previously announced.

Chita Rivera, presented at the awards, will be Chita Rivera Ben is associated, Wayne Cilento, Desmond Richardson, Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, Dylis Croomanand Rachel Zatcoff. The host d’AMBOISE AND MARROQUYE, which performs during the ceremony Bebe neuwirth, Fiddler on the roof in Yiddish, American dance machine for the 21st century, the cast of Bluntand dancers from the Pace University Commercial Dance BFA program.

The awards celebrate and recognize choreographic excellence and achievement in honor of their namesake, Tony winner Chita Rivera, who originated from the most famous roles of Broadway, such as Anita in West Side Story and Velma in Chicago. Tony, Academy and Golden Globe winner Joel Gray is honored this year with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

This year’s nominees for excellent choreography in a Broadway show include Camille A. Brown (for colored girls who considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf), Warren Carlyle (The musician), Bill T. Jones, Garrett Colemanand Jason Pray (Paradise Square), Annie-B Parson (American utopia), Sonya Tayeh (Red mill), and Christopher Well (MJ, the musical).

For an excellent male dancer in a Broadway show, is nominees Sidney Dupont (Paradise Square), Myles Frost (MJ, the musical), Jared Grimes (Funny girl), Hugh Jackman (The musician), AJ Shively (Paradise Square), and Tony Yazbeck (Fly over sunset).

Sutton Foster (The musician), Robyn Hrita (Red mill), Believe to form (for colored girls who considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf), Heather long (Hunting ted small pill), and Adrienne Warren (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) Everyone deserves nominations for excellent female dancer in a Broadway show.

The ensembles of American utopia, for colored girls who considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, MJ, the musical, Red mill, Paradise Squareand The musician Everyone also deserves a nod to excellent ensemble in a Broadway show.

Josh Prince (Farmer) is the only nominee for outstanding choreography in an off-broadway show, just like the ensemble of The wrong man For excellent ensemble in an off-broadway show.

Nominations were also announced for outstanding choreography in film.

The event is produced by Patricia Watt and Joe Lanteri, founder and executive director of the New York City Dance Alliance Foundation, and benefit from the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation College Scholarship program. Since the organization’s founding in 2010, it has allocated $ 4 million to more than 400 dancers.

Visit for more information Chitariveraawards.com.