Posthumous award to dance producer

Dance is a living art and the annual Dance magazine awards normally go to living artists. On Monday, however, the magazine will present its first posthumous award in a ceremony at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.

Selected before her death last September, dance producer and administrator Stephanie Reinhart will be honored along with her husband, Charles Reinhart, for the excellence they championed as co-directors of the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C., and their co-direction of the dance program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

The 46th annual Dance magazine Awards will also go to maverick American ballet choreographer William Forsythe, who transformed Germany’s Frankfurt Ballet into a renowned center for contemporary expression and experiment. Other honorees include two prominent classical dancers: American Ballet Theatre principal Susan Jaffe and New York City Ballet principal Jock Soto.

The awards are selected by a committee chaired by critic Clive Barnes and have been presented since 1954.

-- Lewis Segal