On Saturday, June 30th 2012, contemporary ballet choreographer and innovator William Forsythe will receive the prestigious Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Life Achievement in Modern Dance. The award will be presented by one of his former company dancers, Jill Johnson before Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s performance at the Durham Performance Arts Center in Durham, North Carolina, which will include Quintett, a piece created by Forsythe in 1993. Past recipients of this award have included Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Alwin Nikolais, Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, Anna Sokolow, Twyla Tharp –and the list goes on. ...more...