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Modern-dance choreographer Donald McKayle, 68, is one of eight California dance artists to receive a $30,000 fellowship from the Los Angeles-based James Irvine Foundation. McKayle, a Tony Award nominee and UCI dance professor since 1989, was selected from 130 applicants, according to Dance/USA, a nonprofit national service organization that administers the grants. He will use his fellowship to research and develop “Story Dance Theater,” a theater project exploring the “myths and legends of indigenous peoples.”

Compiled by Ken Williams