Izzies Quotables

“East Bay dancer Ibrahima Diouf continues family’s West African heritage… Diouf was honored this year with an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Individual Performance for his solo centerpiece in “JUSAT,” which he performed at the 2007 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.”
- Jennifer Modenessi, Contra Costa Times
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“The Izzies awards celebrate the unique richness, diversity, and excellence of Bay Area dance. They were awarded in nine categories for outstanding achievement by dancers, choreographers, their collaborators, composers, and others contributing to the vitality and advancement of the Bay Area’s dance community.”
- Philipine News
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“The Izzies, as they are familiarly called, take place Monday and are the centerpiece of the weeklong series of free classes, demonstrations and performances that make up the Bay Area National Dance Week.”
- Mary Ellen Hunt, Special to the San Francisco Chronicle
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“The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee presented its Sustained Achievement Award to the City College of San Francisco Dance Program for 70 years of dance instruction and performance.”
- City Currents
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“You have heard of the Emmys, maybe even the Bammies, but in Bay Area dance, the country’s second largest dance community — it is the Izzies!”
- City Currents
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“The Bay Area Dance Awards had a special gravitas this year, falling just hours after the sudden death of Smuin Ballet founder and former San Francisco Ballet co-director Michael Smuin.”
- Rachel Howard, San Francisco Chronicle
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“The Bay Area upheld its title of largest per capita dance center in the United States Tuesday at the Bay Area Dance Awards at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.”
- Cheryl Ross, Oakland Tribune
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“One of the primary functions of the Izzies was to address what local dancers saw as a serious lack of attention on the part of the critics.”
- Marina Wolf, Metro Active
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“…there were so many pillars of the local dance scene honored that that the progression of standing ovations and sitting down and standing ovations and sitting down felt like a Catholic mass at times.”
- Mary Ellen Hunt, www.ballet-dance.com
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