Choreographer and UC Irvine dance professor Donald...

Choreographer and UC Irvine dance professor Donald McKayle won the $25,000 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award Sunday at Duke University in North Carolina. McKayle, 62, was honored for lifetime achievements in modern dance. His works include “Games,” “District Storyville” and “Rainbow Round My Shoulder,” and he has choreographed such Broadway shows as “Golden Boy” and “Sophisticated Ladies.” Past winners of the annual award, the largest given to any choreographer anywhere, include Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp and Anna Sokolow.