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In The Same Tongue

In the Same Tongue

Presented 2023-2024: Walker Art Center, ASU Gammage, Duke Arts, Apollo Theater and ArtsEmerson

2024 

“In Tune” – Premiere: American Dance Festival
Music recorded:  Mary Lou Williams, Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln

2023

“In the Same Tongue” Premiere: Walker Art Center
Music live – Diedre Murray

2022

“Intimate Apparel” – Lincoln Center Theater and HBO
Lynn Nottage, Story/Libretto and Ricky Ian Gordon, Music

RECENT AWARDS

2023

Martha Hill Lifetime Achievement Award

2022

Dance Magazine Award

2020

United States Artists Doris Duke Fellowship

New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project Grant

2016
Doris Duke Award

PRIOR AWARDS

AUDELCO Award for Choreography, Spell #7 

AUDELCO Special Recognition Pioneer Award 

Helen Hayes Award for Choreography, In Living Color: A Gullah Story 

Helen Hayes Nominations for Choreography 

I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change 

Crowns 

Helen Hayes Charles MacArthur Award Nominations for Outstanding New Play or Musical 

I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change 

Open the Door, Virginia! 

WOODIIE Award for Lifetime Achievement (St. Louis Black Rep) 

Emmy Award Nomination for Choreography, Miss Evers’ Boys