Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Year:
1954
Location:
New York, NY
Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Year:
1959
Location:
New York, NY
Dance Magazine Award
Year:
1960
Location:
New York, NY
Medal of the Society for the Advancement of Dancing
Year:
1964
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
Gold Medal for Choreographic Invention at the Fourth International Festival
Year:
1966
Location:
Paris, France
Honorary degree from the University of Illinois
Year:
1972
Location:
Champaign/Urbana, IL
BITEF Award
Year:
1972
Location:
Belgrade, Yogoslavia
New York State Award
Year:
1975
Location:
Albany, NY
Capezio Award
Year:
1977
Location:
New York, NY
Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Year:
1982
Location:
France
The Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award
Year:
1982
Location:
Durham, NC
The Mayor of New York's Award of Honor for Arts and Culture
Year:
1983
Location:
New York, NY
Inducted as an Honorary Member into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
Year:
1984
Location:
New York, NY
MacArthur Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Year:
1985
Location:
Chicago, IL
Kennedy Center Honors
Year:
1985
Location:
Washington DC
Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Year:
1987
Location:
Dallas, TX
Dance/USA National Honor
Year:
1988
Location:
New York, NY
Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, France
Year:
1989
Location:
France
National Medal of Arts
Year:
1990
Location:
Washington, DC
Porselli Prize
Year:
1990
Location:
Italy
Digital Dance Premier Award
Year:
1990
Location:
London, England
Award of Merit from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Year:
1990
Location:
Washington, DC
Tiffany Award from the International Society of Performing Arts Administrators
Year:
1993
Location:
New York, NY
New York Dance and Performance Award
Year:
1993
Location:
New York, NY
(With John Cage, posthumously) the Wexner Prize of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University
Year:
1993
Location:
Columbus, OH
Medal of Honor from the Universidad Complutense
Year:
1993
Location:
Madrid, Spain
Dance and Performance Award for Best Performance by a Visiting Artist
Year:
1993
Location:
London, England
Inducted into the Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Dance
Year:
1993
Location:
Saratoga Springs, NY
Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, Italy
Year:
1995
Location:
Venice, Italy
Carina Ari Award (Grand Prix Video Danse with Elliot Caplan)
Year:
1995
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
Honorary degree from Wesleyan University
Year:
1995
Location:
Middletown, CT
Nellie Cornish Arts Achievement Award from his alma mater, Cornish College of the Arts
Year:
1996
Location:
Seattle, WA
Grand Prix of the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques
Year:
1997
Location:
France
Barnard College Medal of Distinction
Year:
1997
Location:
New York, NY
Bagley Wright Fund Established Artists Award
Year:
1998
Location:
Seattle, WA
The key to the City of Montpellier
Year:
1999
Location:
France
Fellow of the Academy of Performing Arts
Year:
1999
Location:
Hong Kong
Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Lifetime Achievement
Year:
1999
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Handel Medallion from the Mayor of New York City
Year:
1999
Location:
New York City
Premio Internazionale "Gino Tani"
Year:
1999
Location:
Rome, Italy
Named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress
Year:
2000
Location:
Washington, DC
The 2000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Year:
2000
Location:
New York, NY
Herald Archangel Award
Year:
2002
Location:
Glasgow, Scotland
Career Transition for Dancers Award
Year:
2002
Location:
New York, NY
La Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris (echelon vermeil) from the Mayor of Paris
Year:
2002
Location:
Paris, France
Coat of Arms of the City of Mulhouse
Year:
2002
Location:
France
Medal of the City of Dijon
Year:
2002
Location:
France
MATA (Music at the Anthology) Award
Year:
2002
Location:
New York City
Kitty Carlisle Hart Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts (Arts and Business Council)
Year:
2002
Location:
New York City
Edward MacDowell Medal in interdisciplinary art at the MacDowell Colony
Year:
2003
Location:
Peterborough, NH
Officier of the Légion d'Honneur
Year:
2004
Location:
Paris
Praemium Imperiale
Year:
2005
Location:
Tokyo
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Minnesota
Year:
2005
Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts
Year:
2006
Location:
Seattle, WA
Montgomery Fellow (Arts and Literature), Dartmouth College
Year:
2007
Location:
Hanover, NH
Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, Purchase College School of the Arts, State University of New York
Year:
2007
Location:
Purchase, NY
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Bard College
Year:
2008
Location:
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Jacob's Pillow Dance Award
Year:
2009
Location:
Becket, MA