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Metro DC Dance Awards
The Metro DC Dance Awards was founded in 2000 by Cheles Rhynes and Mason/Rhynes Productions as a means of recognizing excellence in local dance and building community among DC-area dance artists and organizations. Since its inception, the MDCDA has produced annual awards ceremonies and developed an online calendar of dance performances by local artists. The organization is operated by volunteers who serve on an Advisory Board and a Selection Committee. For the first awards ceremony in 2001, artists were nominated for awards by a panel of local dance experts and selected by popular vote. The following year, MDCDA designed and implemented a three-step voting process which maintains the involvement of the community, increases the role of artists in the selection of award winners, and gives dance professionals the last vote in the process. Categories continue to be added and refined as decided by the Advisory Board. Dance/MetroDC , a branch office of Dance/USA , the national service organization for nonprofit professional dance, became the lead organization for MDCDA in 2006. Dance/MetroDC works in conjunction with The Kennedy Center and Mason/Rhynes Productions to produce the awards ceremony, and other events associated with MDCDA. MDCDA continues to evolve as an organization which both serves and celebrates the metropolitan DC/MD/VA dance community.

Sharna Fabiano Tango Argentino
Sharna Fabiano offers a contemporary interpretation of the powerful and eternal Argentine Tango, blending the authentic tango tradition with contemporary dance and music. Her work reveals the nostalgia, intimacy,and longing of the tango and addresses the theme of connection as atransformative process. Passionate embraces meet quiet moments ofpersonal reflection, and gender roles are challenged as women and men exchange following and leading. Sharna has a background in modern dance and improvisation, and is one of the most respected young tango instructors in the United States. Her personal tango journey has taken her five times to Buenos Aires and to countless dance floors around the world. Photo by Marty Katz.
www.sharnafabiano.com