community news Anne Huang succeeds Julie Mushet to lead World Arts West The Board of Directors of World Arts West— producers of the SF Ethnic Dance Festival— has appointed Anne Huang as the organiza- tions new Executive Director. Julie Mushet served as World Arts West’s Executive Direc- tor for 17 years to champion and uplift artists that sustain dance and music from around the world. Huang is regarded as a cultural arts leader in the SF Bay Area and served on the senior management team of World Arts West for three years. Dance Round: Hewlett 50 Launched in 2017 in honor of the Hewlett Foundation’s 50th anniversary, the five-year, $8 million initiative awards 10 commissions annually in five performing arts disciplines. These artworks will bring communities together in the Bay Area and go on to inspire, engage, and challenge audiences across the country and around the world in years to come. Applications for awards in dance and movement-based performance are due by In July, Grants for the Arts welcomed new Associate Director, Jason M. Blackwell. Jason was previously with the James Irvine Foun- dation, where his focus included the Arts Engagement Initiative, Research and Develop- ment Initiative and the Immigrant Integration and Protecting Immigrant Rights Initiative. Prior to the Irvine Foundation, Blackwell worked at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and at numerous arts institutions in Los Angeles and New York City in areas of development, capital projects, and programming. Remembrance: Allan Ulrich For 40 years Allan Ulrich was a dance critic for a variety of local and national publica- tions including the SF Chronicle. As reported in the Chronicle: Ulrich died on Mon July 22. He was 78. The cause of death was cancer, said his longtime friend Karen Malkson. Ulrich joined the staff of the SF Examiner in 1980 as a reporter, and then quickly started writing about dance. When the Examiner and Chron- icle staffs merged, he became the Chronicle’s chief dance critic, a position he held until 2002. After that he remained as the paper’s dance correspondent, reviewing ballet and modern dance events in the area. Tweeddale is an admired performing arts administrator (and former dancer) who has run opera and symphony companies. Tweed- dale succeeds Glenn McCoy, an exceptionally gifted administrator who retired in June after a 32-year career with the dance company. Tweeddale has been president of the Van- couver Symphony and VSO School of Music since November 2015. She was previously E.D. at the Seattle Opera and has held leadership roles with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. Diablo Ballet Opens its Own School Under the leadership of Lauren Jonas, Co- Founder and Artistic Director, Diablo Ballet has opened its own ballet school, the first school in the East Bay to be run by a professional ballet company. Classes will be offered to students ages 3 to adult who enjoy dancing as well as those who wish to pursue a professional career in ballet. The school will be located at the Per- forming Academy in Pleasant Hill. SF Ballet names new Executive Director: Kelly Tweeddale November 13, 2019. hewlett.org/dance Jason Blackwell Joins Grants for the Arts
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