Bill Text: TX HR560 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Commending Ann Williams, founder of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, for her contributions to dance and dance education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-16 - Reported enrolled [HR560 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR560-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Commending Ann Williams, founder of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, for her contributions to dance and dance education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-16 - Reported enrolled [HR560 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR560-Introduced.html
85R12249 JCD-D | ||
By: Giddings | H.R. No. 560 |
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WHEREAS, The presentation of a 2017 Texas Medal of Arts Award | ||
to the Dallas Black Dance Theatre provides a welcome opportunity to | ||
honor the organization's founder and artistic advisor, Ann | ||
Williams, for her lifelong support of the arts; and | ||
WHEREAS, The signature event of the Texas Cultural Trust, the | ||
Texas Medal of Arts Awards honor the achievements and creative | ||
talents of leaders in the arts, as well as those whose generosity | ||
has provided artistic opportunities for Texans of all ages; and | ||
WHEREAS, Ann Williams founded the Dallas Black Dance Theatre | ||
in 1976, with the goals of encouraging an appreciation of dance | ||
among minority youth and helping them use dance as a form of | ||
creative expression; and | ||
WHEREAS, Under her leadership, DBDT has grown to include a | ||
fully professional company of multiethnic dancers who perform | ||
modern, jazz, ethnic, and spiritual works across the country and | ||
around the world; a second troupe, known as Encore!, is made up of | ||
semiprofessional dancers and is involved in local and regional | ||
educational outreach programs; in addition, DBDT operates a | ||
training school, Dallas Black Dance Academy, which teaches ballet, | ||
tap, modern, jazz, and ethnic dance to more than 475 students every | ||
week; and | ||
WHEREAS, Ms. Williams served as the artistic director of the | ||
Dallas Black Dance Theatre until 2014, and she continues to remain | ||
deeply involved as its artistic advisor; she is also a founding | ||
member of the Dance Council of North Texas and the International | ||
Association of Blacks in Dance, and she has further shared her time | ||
and talents as a panelist for numerous organizations, such as the | ||
Texas Commission on the Arts, the Dallas Center for the Performing | ||
Arts Foundation, and the Houston and Arkansas Arts Councils; and | ||
WHEREAS, This distinguished Texan has garnered myriad | ||
accolades over the course of her career, including an Arts | ||
Community Alliance Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts and | ||
induction into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame; in 2005, she was | ||
honored as part of the Masters of African American Choreography | ||
series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; and | ||
WHEREAS, Through her vision and leadership, Ann Williams has | ||
built an enduring cultural institution while inspiring a love of | ||
dance in countless Texans; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 85th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby commend Ann Williams for her immeasurable | ||
contributions to dance and dance education and congratulate her on | ||
the occasion of the Dallas Black Dance Theatre's receipt of a 2017 | ||
Texas Medal of Arts Award; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for Ms. Williams as an expression of high regard by the | ||
Texas House of Representatives. |