Choreographer Tatiana Desardouin Awarded $50,000 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Dance
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
NEW YORK, March 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tatiana Desardouin is the founder, choreographer, and artistic director of Passion Fruit Dance Company.
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- NEW YORK, March 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tatiana Desardouin is the founder, choreographer, and artistic director of Passion Fruit Dance Company.
- She receives a 2022 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Dance for her presentation of hip-hop and house dance that brings the vernacular tradition of these genres in the Black diaspora to her work.
- Recipients of the Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise each receive a commemorative trophy and an unrestricted cash award of $50,000.
- Read more about Desardouin at the Vilcek Foundation: Tatiana Desardouin: "The goal is to be a culture bearer."