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05/13/2013 - 208th New England Society's Founders' Day Celebration
05/08/2013 - New York kick-off reception for Masterpiece London
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04/25/2013 - 2013 New England Society Book Awards at the historic Grolier Club
04/25/2013 - Strokes of Genius 3rd Annual International Savant Art Exhibition
04/23/2013 - New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) celebrates their annual Hall of Fame Benefit
04/13/2013 - Culture Lovers Attend Roosevelt Island Cherry Blossom Festival
04/02/2013 - French Heritage Society Dinner and Exclusive Preview, at the BGC Gallery April 2, 2013
03/18/2013 - The Perlman Music Program Cocktails, Dinner and a Chamber Music Concert in Palm Beach
03/15/2013 - Asia Week New York Kick-off Reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
03/12/2013 - Third Annual Fountain House Associates Spring Breakfast: “Between The Sheets”
03/05/2013 - NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER’S FACES GALA HONORING LEON CHARNEY RAISED $4.5 MILLION
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02/21/2013 - 24th Annual Gala of Heart & Soul Charitable Fund Auction at Christie’s
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02/07/2013 - Lost and Found: The Pinajian Discovery benefit preview for the Fund for Armenian Relief
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Kickoff Reception for 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards 2012
11/12/2011 - By Photos by John Wegorzewski

Kickoff Reception for 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards 2012
Photos by John Wegorzewski

It has been almost three decades since the Astaire Awards came into being to recognize the enormous talents behind those high kicks and grand jetes.

To get the big Anniversary rolling, Fred & Adele Astaire Awards producer Patricia Watt, The Douglas Watt Family Fund for the Performing Arts, & art consultant Julie Keyes hosted a kickoff cocktail reception at the theater district’s Remi Restaurant for the committees and sponsors of the 30th Fred & Adele Astaire Awards Gala next spring.

Astaire Awards Associate Producer Carolyn Kendall Buchter and Alix Michel, who are the Co-Chairs of the 30th Anniversary Awards Gala were also on hand to welcome guests that included such theater world glitterati as 5 time Astaire Award winner Susan Stroman, producers Emanuel Azenberg, Wendy Federman and Dan Whitten, SDC Executive Director Laura Penn, Lee Roy Reams, Bruce Michael, NYC Dance Alliance Executive Director Joe Lanteri, J. Elaine Marcos (Priscilla: Queen of the Desert), Kearann Giovanni (Hugh Jackman Back to Broadway), Meggie Cansler (Wicked), Rob Ashford (How to Succeed…), actresses Sondra Lee, Sarah Bierstock, Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster & Jacquelin Murphy. Also lending their support for the 30th annual Awards were Sara Johnson, Wendy Diamond, Kirk Pacheco, Tia Walker, Suzy & Lincoln Boehm, Lynn Surry, filmmaker Albert Maysles, Andrew Wargo, Caroline Lieberman, Pamela Morgan, Regina Kravitz, Barry Minsky, Joel Breiter

Held in the restaurant’s soaring Rialto Room, a highlight of the evening was the exhibition of vintage Broadway musical posters created by acclaimed illustrator Hilary Knight of “Eloise” fame. Addressing the attentive crowd, Ms. Watt spoke movingly about the very successful Dance Therapy Program in NYC Public Schools, the beneficiary of the annual awards. Laura Penn, Susan Stroman and Emanuel Azenberg all made impassioned pleas for the support of dancers and cited the Astaire Awards for their longtime recognition of the important role of dancers and choreographers on stage and in film over the last three decades.

Now in its 30th year, The Fred & Adele Astaire Awards continue to be the only awards to recognize excellence in dance and choreography on stage and in film. The awards were founded in 1982 by the esteemed critic Douglas Watt and Mr. Astaire himself.


The 30th Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards nominees will be announced in late winter with the awards gala slated for Spring 2012. For more information, please visit www.TheAstaireAwards.org


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