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You also have the option of becoming one of our High Tier Donors.
Your name will be included in our Gala Program.
The tiers are as follows:
Platinum Table for ten guests @ $2500
Golden Table for ten guests @ $2000
Benefactor(s) @ $1200 per person
Patron(s) @ $600 per person
Sponsor(s) @ $300 per person
Or you can purchase a general ticket:
Donor(s) @ $175 per person
You may also donate $100 to support a student dancer's attendance at the gala.
For all tickets and donations, go HERE
or DOWNLOAD THIS FORM, fill it out, and mail it with your check
payable to The Martha Hill Dance Fund
to
MHDF Donations
c/o Corvino
14 Little Fox Lane
Norwalk CT 06850
More detailed information will be sent to you via email as we get closer to the event*!
*Our Gala features an Open Bar and a Full Course Meal
Diana Byer is the founder and Artistic Director Emeritus of New York Theatre Ballet and Director of New York Theatre Ballet School. She is a répétiteur for The Antony Tudor Trust, Director of Education for the Dance Notation Bureau, on the Board of Directors of the Clive and Valerie Barnes Foundation, an Education Ambassador for The New York Pops, and served on the Dance Portal Advisory Board of The Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the Bessie Awards Selection Committee. She has staged the ballets of Antony Tudor for American Ballet Theatre and The Hartt School and the ballets of Agnes deMille for the Alabama Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. She coached the principals for the Columbia Pictures film, Center Stage. Ms. Byer was selected by Good Housekeeping Magazine as the 2018 Humanitarian Hero. She was a long-time pupil and colleague of Margaret Craske, who was Director of Ballet Instruction at New York Theatre Ballet School until her retirement.
Ms. Byer will be presented by Linda Murray, Curator of The Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Choreographer Dianne McIntyre is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Doris Duke Artist awardee and a three-time “Bessie” Award winner whose work is rooted in research and explores the intersection of history, culture, personal narrative and the human experience. Her five-decade career encompasses Broadway, television and film, commissions for Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and projects for her own company, Sounds in Motion, such as the adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. She had a longtime collaboration with the late playwright and poet Ntozake Shange, creator of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf. McIntyre choreographed the 1998 film Beloved, based on the novel by Toni Morrison.
Deborah Damast (BFA Dance: Purchase, MA Dance Education: NYU) is Program Director and Associate Professor of Dance Education at NYU Steinhardt where in addition to leadership and teaching, she is Artistic Director of concerts, Kaleidoscope Dancers, and the Uganda study abroad program. She is Past President of the New York State Dance Education Association, and also teaches for LREI, DEL, and serves on the boards of Dance Education in Practice, Peridance Company and as an advisor to Misty Copeland’s BE BOLD program. She has presented choreography, workshops and master classes at numerous conferences, colleges, and festivals. She has written curriculum for NYC DOE, Peridance, Paul Taylor, DEL, Carnegie Hall and NYCB, and her choreography has been shown at over 100 venues in NYC, nationally and internationally in Japan, Uganda, Korea, Italy, and Canada. In NYC her work has been presented at Ailey Citigroup, Peridance, Riverside Church, 92Y, Judson Church, and many others. Deborah is a recipient of the NDEO Outstanding Educator award (Higher Ed) and the Dance Teacher Magazine Award. Deborah is deeply inspired by the work and legacy of Martha Hill and aims to continue building the NYU Dance Education Program toward the future with the solid foundations of our history.
Ms. Damast will be presented by Joan Finkelstein, Executive Director of The Harkness Foundation for Dance
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Donors List
(in formation)
Platinum Benefactor
Bradford Kirkman-Liff
Platinum Table
John and Jody Arnhold
Patrons
Ernesta Corvino Mercedes Ellington Allen Maniker
Sponsors
Neil Baldwin Andra Corvino Joan Finkelstein Kathleen Harty Gray
Daniel Lewis Elizabeth McPherson Jeanne Ruddy
Sponsors for Students
Roberta Plutzik Baldwin Jim May
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Honorary Committee
(in formation)
Virginia Johnson
Alicia Graf Mack
Georgia Pickett
Gus Solomons