AWA DANCE (Advancing Women’s Aspirations with Dance) launches its first Women in Dance Award

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The charity AWA DANCE (Advancing Women’s Aspirations with Dance) launches its first Women in Dance Award. It seeks to celebrate a woman in the UK dance sector for her outstanding leadership practice in the UK during 2020, and to celebrate the charity’s first birthday. Their aim is to make these awards an annual ceremony awarding one woman the accolade of the Women in Dance Award.

 

C-DaRE’s Rosa Cisneros was a jury member who helped decide which deserving woman would receive the award. The jury was formed by: Kimberley Harvey (Freelance Dance Artist & Director of CandoCo Youth), Eva Martinez (Dance Curator, Consultant and former Sadler's Wells artistic programmer), Alesandra Seutin (Director of Vocab Dance and AD of Ecole des Sables Senegal)  and founder and Director of Awa dance charity, Avatâra Ayuso.