(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
McKnight grants to dancers and choreographers
Foundation gives $25,000 to each of six artists
By claudepeck
June 8, 2011 at 8:35PM
Nic Lincoln / photo by Erik Saulitis
Six Minnesota dance artists will receive $25,000 each as winners of a 2011 McKnight Artist Fellowship.
The winners, announced Wednesday, are dancers Amy Behm-Thomson, Amanda Dlouhy and Nic Lincoln and choreographers Uri Sands, April Sellers and Chris Yon.
Behm-Thomson dances primarily with Arena and Zenon. Dlouhy dances with Ragamala, and Lincoln's primary affiliation is with James Sewell Ballet.
Uri Sands founded TU Dance with Toni Pierce-Sands. Sellers is artistic director of April Sellers Dance Collective. Yon will have work in the Momentum series in July in Minneapolis.
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