Visit with Maria Hassabi, 2015 Alpert Award winner

Dance artist Maria Hassabi
(photo courtesy of The Herb Alpert Foundation)

The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts is an unrestricted prize of $75,000 given annually to five risk-taking mid-career artists working in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theatre and the visual arts.

Click here to explore video, images and a conversation with New York-based choreographer Maria Hassabi, winner, the 2015 Alpert Award for Dance...

...for changing the nature of spectatorship, for challenging conventional ideas about performance, for stripping away busyness and the ornamentation of dancing to allow for rare contemplative experience.