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Anthony Shay is a dancer and choreographer specializing in dances from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. In 50 years of work he has created over 200 choreographies. Shay created and directed several dance groups: Village Dancers, AMAN Folk Ensemble (AMAN International Music and Dance Company, Los Angeles, California, 1963–1977), and AVAZ International Dance Theatre (since 1977). Dr. Anthony Shay has been awarded a for 1998 as one of the eight top choreographers in California with a $30,000 fellowship for research in Iranian art.

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  • أنتوني شاي (بالإنجليزية: Anthony Shay)‏ هو راقص أمريكي، ولد في 1936. (ar)
  • Anthony Shay is a dancer and choreographer specializing in dances from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. In 50 years of work he has created over 200 choreographies. Shay created and directed several dance groups: Village Dancers, AMAN Folk Ensemble (AMAN International Music and Dance Company, Los Angeles, California, 1963–1977), and AVAZ International Dance Theatre (since 1977). In 1977 Shay earned a Ph.D. in dance history and theory from the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches dances of Iranian culture and M.A. degrees in anthropology, folklore and mythology from California State University, Los Angeles and UCLA. On November 18, 1995, Shay received commendations from President Bill Clinton and the City Council of Los Angeles for excellence of his choreographies, honoring his forty years as a choreographic artist, during which he created over 150 works. The has designated him as Distinguished California Artist in 1997. Dr. Anthony Shay has been awarded a for 1998 as one of the eight top choreographers in California with a $30,000 fellowship for research in Iranian art. In 1999, he received the Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles Lester Horton award for Outstanding Achievement for the Staging of Traditional Dance. He is a five-time recipient of choreographic fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is also an author of several books about dance, and has published numerous articles in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Dance, the , Dance Research Journal, and the . In 2002, the California Arts Council awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award for “His Incomparable Service to the Art of Dance.” Congress on Research in Dance honored, among others, Anthony Shay in 2003 (Dance Magazine, September 2003). (en)
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  • أنتوني شاي (بالإنجليزية: Anthony Shay)‏ هو راقص أمريكي، ولد في 1936. (ar)
  • Anthony Shay is a dancer and choreographer specializing in dances from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. In 50 years of work he has created over 200 choreographies. Shay created and directed several dance groups: Village Dancers, AMAN Folk Ensemble (AMAN International Music and Dance Company, Los Angeles, California, 1963–1977), and AVAZ International Dance Theatre (since 1977). Dr. Anthony Shay has been awarded a for 1998 as one of the eight top choreographers in California with a $30,000 fellowship for research in Iranian art. (en)
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  • أنتوني شاي (ar)
  • Anthony Shay (en)
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