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This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2025 Dance Magazine Award honorees. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 8, visit store.dancemedia.com. Stephen “tWitch” Boss had a gorgeous smile, an easygoing charisma, a theatrical hip-hop style that was all about fun. Ellen DeGeneres, whose talk-show sidekick he became, once challenged him to freestyle moves while she called up seemingly random cuts of music.

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This week we’re sharing tributes to all of the 2024 Dance Magazine Award honorees. Founded in 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards have historically only been given to living artists, but in 2023 posthumous honors were added to recognize some of the many artists not given awards during their lifetimes. For tickets to the awards ceremony on December 2, visit store.dancemedia.com. Romani musicologist Gonzalo Montaño Peña, writing of the great Carmen Amaya, found her flamenco dancing beyond compare.