New Year's Honours List - 2023

[Jan McNulty]

Thanks to Graham Watts for highlighting these honourees for services to dance:

 

Luke Rittner - lately CEO of the Royal Academy of Dance - Knighthood

 

Lady Dorfman - philanthropist - OBE

 

Dr Mary Evelyn - Director of Postgraduate Studies, London Contemporary Dance School - MBE

 

Edward Lynch - Co-founder RJC Dance (Leeds) - MBE

 

Keranjeet Virdee - Chief Executive/Artistic Director, South Asian Arts - MBE

 

Kathleen Williams - Co-founder RJC Dance (Leeds) - MBE

 

William Barbour - Services to Scottish Dancing - BEM

 

 

[SheilaC]

Thanks Janet, I tried to search for a full list but couldn't find one.

Disappointing that there is no ballet nominee- an all too depressing sign of the times. But Mary Evelyn was a wonderful contemporary dancer and has done a great job at LCDS.

However, I am delighted that Edward Lynch is being awarded an MBE. He was an early member of Phoenix in their dynamic all-male years, although not one of the 3 founding members. Years later, when he had an artistic post at the City of York, and I was careers director at York St John University, he ran some workshops on careers in dance for students on our dance degree, and very inspirational he was.

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