Photo Coverage: Inside the 32nd Annual Astaire Awards
By: Jessica Fallon Gordon Jun. 04, 2014
The 32nd Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards were held on Monday, June 2 at 7:30pm at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The winners for the evening were Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards (After Midnight) & Karine Plantadit (After Midnight) a tie for Outstanding Female Dancer in a Broadway Show; Jared Grimes (After Midnight) for Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show; and Warren Carlyle (After Midnight) for Outstanding Choreographer for a Broadway Show. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the star-studded arrivals below!
Presenters included Tony Award-winners Hal Prince, Bebe Neuwirth, Susan Stroman & Karen Ziemba, Emmy Award-winner Valerie Harper, Scandal's Joe Morton, Dancing with the Stars' Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Boardwalk Empire'sStephen DeRosa, Sandy Duncan & Don Correia. This year also honored 5-time Tony Award nominee and 2-time Emmy Award-winning veteran choreographer Pat Birch with its Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award & legendary dancer and dance instructor Luigi with a special award.
The Astaire Awards is the only awards show to honor excellence in dance and choreography on Broadway and in film and were first started in 1982 by the late Fred Astaire and the late Douglas Watt (a critic and writer for the NY Daily News andThe New Yorker, his 100th birthday would be this year). Each year The Astaire Awards are presented each year by Patricia Watt (the daughter of Douglas Watt).
NYU SKIRBALL CENTER: The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is the premier venue for the presentation of cultural and performing arts events for New York University and lower Manhattan. Led by executive producer Jay Oliva (President Emeritus, NYU) and senior director Michael Harrington, the programs of the Skirball Center reflect NYU's mission as an international center of scholarship, defined by excellence and innovation and shaped by an intellectually rich and diverse environment. A vital aspect of the Center's mission is to build young adult audiences for the future of live performance. www.nyuskirball.org.
Photo Credit: Jessica Fallon Gordon
Luigi dancers
Stephen DeRosa and the Onyx girls from Boardwalk Empire
Cast members from Motown: The Musical
The cast of Grease from Papermill Playhouse
The cast of Grease from Papermill Playhouse
Dancers from the Nancy Chippendale Dance Studio
Luigi
Luigi dancers
Angel Inniss
Cory Lingner and Deanna Doyle
Angel Inniss
Cast members from Motown: The Musical
Dancers from the Nancy Chippendale Dance Studio
Dancers from the Fred Astaire Dance Studio
Angel Inniss
The cast of Grease from Papermill Playhouse
Luigi
Dancers from the Fred Astaire Dance Studio
The Onyx Girls from Boardwalk Empire
Cast members from Motown: The Musical
Cory Lingner and Deanna Doyle
The Onyx Girls from Boardwalk Empire
The cast of Grease from Papermill Playhouse
Angel Inniss
Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards
Marcia Milgrom Dodge and Sergio Trujillo
Cory Lingner and Deanna Doyle
The cast of Grease from Papermill Playhouse
Desmond Richardson and Angel Inniss
The cast of Grease from Papermill Playhouse
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