Taking the chill out of the arctic blast was Evidence Dance Company's annual Grace in Winter Gala, chaired by art world legend Lowery Stokes Sims, former president of the internationally acclaimed Studio Museum in Harlem and longtime curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum. This annual fundraiser for Ronald K. Brown's dance troupe was held at the landmark Hudson Theater in the Millennium Broadway Hotel.
"It was a glam slam from the moment the doors opened with a steady stream of New York's movers and shakers in business, arts and fashion swirling through the oaken doors to the blasts of the paparazzi. Gala chair Gayle Perkins Atkins had filled the tables with a crowd that looked right out of Central Casting – only this was the real deal. Cole Porter would have felt right at home and ordered a very cold martini and praised the fashion parade of glamorous gals in old Hollywood slinky, fish-tailed gowns, opulent furs and, for a change, plenty of dazzling diamonds, enough to light up Times Square," state press notes on the event, which featured appearances by Oscar-winner Cicely Tyson and Rita Moreno, the only woman to have won the Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy Awards.
Among the scores of boldfaced guests were Corice Arman, Amy Fine Collins, Flora Biddle, Robert Couturier, Jonathan Capehart, Saundra Cornwell, Ashton Hawkins, Andrea and Maurice DuBois, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, Kristoffer Haynes, Jonelle Procope, Malik Yoba, Robert and Jackie Ross.
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Photos by Julie Skarratt
Hudson Theatre
John and Dawn Gibson-Brehon
Jonathan Capeheart, Lola C. West and Reginald Van Lee
The Honorable Bernard H. Jackson with Joyce Mullins-Jackson
Three Lions Stage's Edward Marrero and Susan L. Taylor
Evidence A Dance Company
Evidence Dance Company
Michael and Cicely Tyson
Jerri DeVard and Joyce Mullins-Jackson
Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz
Neil Lowe and Betty LaMarr
Pamela Joyner and Rita Moreno
Reggie Van Lee, Lowery Stokes Simms and Ronald K. Brown
