Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The Capezio Dance Awards, presented annually by the Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance Foundation, Inc., honor the performer, choreographer, critic, teacher, producer or administrator who has made a significant contribution to the art.
| 2008 | Charles "Chuck" Davis | |
| 2007 | Carmen de Lavallade | |
| 2006 | Donald Saddler | |
| 2005 | Suzanne Farrell | |
| 2004 | Savion Glover | |
| 2003 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre | |
| 2002 | Michael M. Kaiser | |
| 2001 | Career Transitions for Dancers | |
| 2000 | David White | |
| 1999 | Bella Lewitzky | |
| 1998 | Jacob's Pillow | |
| 1997 | Mark Morris
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| 1996 | Charles Reinhart | |
| Bruce Marks | |
| 1994 | Urban Bush Women | |
| 1993 | Dance/USA | |
| 1992 | Frederic Franklin | |
| 1991 | John Curry | |
| Katherine Dunham | ||
| Darci Kistler | ||
| Igor Youskevitch | ||
| 1990 | Jacques d'Amboise | |
| 1989 | Edward Villella | |
| 1988 | Charles “Honi” Coles | |
| 1987 | Fred Astaire | |
| Bob Fosse | ||
| Rudolf Nureyev | ||
| Jac Venza | ||
| 1986 | Antony Tudor | |
| 1985 | Doris Hering | |
| 1984 | William Christensen | |
| Harold Christensen | ||
| Lew Christensen | ||
| 1983 | Harvey Lichtenstein | |
| 1982 | Alwin Nikolais | |
| 1981 | Dorothy Alexander | |
| 1980 | Walter Terry | |
| 1979 | Alvin Ailey | |
| 1978 | Hanya Holm | |
| 1977 | Merce Cunningham | |
| 1976 | Jerome Robbins | |
| 1975 | Robert Irving | |
| 1974 | Robert Joffrey | |
| 1973 | Isadora Bennett | |
| 1972 | La Meri | |
| Reginald and Gladys Laubin | ||
| 1971 | Arthur Mitchell | |
| 1970 | William Kolodney | |
| 1969 | John Martin | |
| 1968 | Lucia Chase | |
| 1967 | Paul Taylor | |
| 1966 | Agnes de Mille | |
| 1965 | Maria Tallchief | |
| 1964 | José Limón | |
| 1963 | Donald McKayle | |
| 1962 | Barbara Karinska | |
| 1961 | Ruth St. Denis | |
| 1960 | Martha Graham | |
| 1959 | Sol Hurok | |
| 1958 | Alexandra Danilova | |
| 1957 | Ted Shawn | |
| 1956 | Genevieve Oswald | |
| 1955 | Louis Horst | |
| 1954 | Doris Humphrey | |
| 1953 | Lincoln Kirstein | |
| 1952 | Zachary Solov |
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