Most Recent LCA Recipient:
We are delighted to announce that Sharon Green of Oakland, CA, is the 2024 recipient of the CDSS Lifetime Contribution Award. Sharon is an English country dancer, caller, teacher, choreographer, and tireless promoter of the talents of others.
She has been an integral and joyful part of the New York and San Francisco Bay Area dance communities in which she has lived (and danced). Most recently, she and Kalia Kliban founded the Odd Sundays Zoom dance, connecting dancers from everywhere and keeping the spirit of the dance alive during pandemic isolation.
Read more about Sharon in the December 2023 issue of the CDSS News!
Award Celebration
Sharon was honored with an award celebration in April 2024.
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Nominations for Future Lifetime Contribution Awards
Do you know someone who has made a long-term and exceptional contribution to the mission of CDSS?
- Have they led the way in preserving, promoting, and/or creating within the living traditions that CDSS stewards?
- Has their contribution benefited people in more that one geographical area?
- Has their contribution impacted more than one generation?
- Have they worked in conjunction with CDSS, CDSS affiliates, or complementary organizations?
If the answer is “yes” to all of these, then you may know a future recipient of the CDSS Lifetime Contribution Award.
Examples of a long-term and exceptional contribution include:
- Increasing the quality of what we do by inspiration, instruction, or excellent example
- Bringing what we do to new communities
- Expanding the repertoire of dance, music, and/or song through scholarship or original composition
- Working behind the scenes or enabling others to make these contributions
Nominations for the Lifetime Contribution Award are currently closed. The 2025 award will be announced later this year. Nominations for the 2026 award will open in early 2025.
If you would like to nominate someone who has recently passed away, please use this form for the Posthumous Lifetime Contribution Award. Nominations for the Posthumous LCA are accepted anytime.
Past Recipients:
2023: New England Dancing Masters
2022: Ed Stern
2021: David Kaynor
2020: Kate Barnes
2019: Sue Songer
2018: Bill Alkire
2017: Sandy Bradley
2016: Jeff Warner
2015: Brad Foster
2015 Posthumous Recipient: Warren Argo
2014: Jim Morrison
2013: Glen and Judi Morningstar
2012: George Fogg
2011: Bob Dalsemer
2010: John Ramsay
2010: Tom Kruskal
2009: Chuck Ward
2009: Bob McQuillen
2008: Tony Barrand
2007: M. Gunzenhauser, D. Laufman & P. Napier
2006: Fried De Metz Herman
2005: Jack Langstaff
2004: Larry Jennings
2002: Helene Cornelius
Honorary CDSS Members
The following people were made an Honorary CDSS Member before the origination of the Lifetime Contribution Awards:
- 1996: Sue Salmons
- 1992: Kate Van Winkle Keller
- 1990: Marshall Barron