2004
Lester Horton Dance Awards Recipient for Loretta Livingston's "Leaving
(Evidence)"
Outstanding Company Performance; Outstanding Choreography, Long
Form;
Outstanding Female Performance (Loretta); Outstanding Music (Robin
Cox) |
| 2003
U.S. State Department Choreography Initiative, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2003
Artist Award, CDEA California Dance Educators Association
|
| 2002
California DanceMaker Grant |
| 2002
City of Los Angeles "C.O.L.A." Individual Artist Fellowship |
2003
Lester Horton Dance Awards Nominations: For
Outstanding Performance and
Outstanding Music for Dance (Robin Cox), in the 2002 premiere of
Move/Let Us Listen |
2002
Lester Horton Dance Awards Nominations:
For Outstanding
Choreography,
Company Performance and Music (Robin Cox) |
| 2002
/ 2003 C.O.L.A (City of Los Angeles) Individual
Artist Fellowship for Loretta Livingston |
| 2002
NCCI (National College Choreography Initiative ) a
special initiative funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
and Dance USA, chose Loretta's project- "The Persistence of
Heart (in the red, red earth)"-with UCO Director of Dance Jamie
Jacobson and the University of Central Oklahoma's Dance Department,
to receive this grant award and represent the state of Oklahoma.
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| 2001
"Dances for White Rooms"-- A
special "live composition" performance event directed
by Loretta Livingston and presented at the Luckman Art Gallery
as part of their Intimate Encounters series, was nominated for
Lester Horton Awards in the areas of:
| Outstanding
Choreography-Loretta Livingston |
| Outstanding
Company Performance-Loretta Livingston & Dancers |
| Outstanding
Music-Robin Cox, composer |
|
| 2000
Loretta
Livingston was selected as the first artist to be commissioned
by the Orange County Performing Arts Center, presenting her "Two
Thousand Steps"
(performed by Loretta Livingston & Dancers) in Segerstrom
Hall, May 12, 2000.
(see "Evening
Length Works" in the Choreography Archive) |
1998
Best Feet Forward
“¡Sí,
Se Puede! /Yes, You Can!”, a collaboration between Loretta Livingston
and Gema Sandoval, artistic director of Danza Floricanto/USA, chosen
as one of the year’s ten best dance events by dance writer Sasha
Anawalt. |
| 1997
Distinguished California Artist (from Dance Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles)
to Loretta
Livingston |
| 1996
Lester Horton Dance Awards
“Tales From
the Plate, Moving North”, an evening-length work inspired by life
in the city of the angels---Los Angeles, with stage décor by visual
artist Frank Romero.
| Outstanding Visual
Design---Stephen Bennett, for lighting design |
| Outstanding Music---Murielle
Hamilton, original score and recording |
Nominations in six
areas of production: choreography, company performance, individual
performance (company dancer David Plettner), stage décor (painter
and Chicano artist Frank Romero), lighting (Stephen Bennett) and
music (Murielle Hamilton).
|
| 1995
Professional Artist Award, California Alliance for the Arts
To Loretta Livingston,
for contribution to arts education |
| 1994
Lester Horton Dance Award Tenth Anniversary Concert,
a retrospective of Livingston’s first decade of choreography,
with a new duet for Livingston and company member Madeline Soglin,
with poetry by Pablo Neruda.
Outstanding Company
Performance---Loretta Livingston & Dancers |
| 1994
Distinguished Artist Award (Club 100, Los Angeles Music Center)
Loretta Livingston,
Dance
Other awardees: Gordon Davidson-Theater; Frederica Von Stade-Opera;
James Earl Jones-Film, Television, Stage; Diane Ladd-Film, Television,
Stage. |
1993
Lester Horton Dance Award “The
Grandma Moses Project”, an evening-length work based on the
folk paintings of American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses
(“Grandma Moses”), with original music by Murielle Hamilton.
Outstanding Company Performance---Loretta Livingston & Dancers |
| 1992
Lester Horton Dance Awards
“Don’t Fall, Pomegranate”, a solo based on the journals from
Hiroshima, Japan.
Outstanding Individual Performance---Loretta Livingston
“A History of Restlessness”,
an evening-length work inspired by landscapes, geology and plate
tectonics in the West, with original music by Jeff Rona.
Outstanding Choreography---Loretta
Livingston |
| 1991
Lester Horton Dance Awards “A
Window in the Passage”, an evening-length work with original music
by Jeff Rona.
| Outstanding
Choreography---Loretta Livingston |
| Outstanding
Visual Design---Doc Ballard, lighting; Martha Ferrara, costumes
|
| Outstanding
Company Performance--Loretta Livingston & Dancers |
|
| 1990
Dewar’s Young Artist Recognition Award
---Loretta Livingston
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