ANTONIO FINI ANNOUNCES THE 2023 FINI DANCE FESTIVAL and
ITALIAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE AWARDS
HOST: TABATA CALDIRONI
Thursday, August 31 at 8 PM
Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, NYC
Antonio Fini, founder/director of the Fini Dance Festival and Italian International Dance Awards announces the 2023 event, August 31 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater.
This year’s Fini Dance Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to JANET ELBER, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company.
The Fini Dance Extraordinary Award will be awarded to JONATHAN MENDEZ, a member of the all-male Ballet Eloelle Grandiva. Mendez will also perform “Dying Swan” at the evening’s performance.
MARZIA MEMOLI, a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company, will receive the Fini Dance Rising Star Award.
PERFORMANCES:
Artists scheduled to appear include
FINI DANCE SUMMER STUDENTS – students from the Fini Summer Intensives in both Italy and New York;
DZUL DANCE COMPANY of New York;
MELANIA LIOTTA DANCE MOVEMENT from Sicily;
ERMANNO RAVA and CRISTIAN PREBIBAJ from Italy, selected by Fini after their appearance on Dancing with the Stars in Italy;
MARZIA MEMOLI, member of the Martha Graham Dance Company
JONATHAN MENDEZ, dancing The Dying Swan.
and more……………….