Mr. White is the director of Dance Theater Workshop, which presents the annual awards for dance and performance art.

"I was determined to bring back the Out of Towners," David White, the director of Dance Theater Workshop, said recently.

David R. White, executive director of Dance Theater Workshop, began presenting him 10 years ago.

"She sees everything," said Marion Koltun Dienstag, the executive director of Dance Theater Workshop.

The artistic director of Dance Theater Workshop holds sway over significant resources in the modern-dance world.

David White, the executive director of Dance Theater Workshop, has been watching Ms. Hoffbauer's work since the late 80's.

WHEN Cathy Edwards stepped down as artistic director of Dance Theater Workshop last summer, experimental dance lost a general.

"It's building a kind of cultural 'Bell Labs by the Sea,' " said David White, the director of Dance Theater Workshop.

"I feel we are really lucky to be working in New York," said Cathy Edwards, the artistic director of Dance Theater Workshop.

"It's a risk," said Cathy Edwards, the former artistic director of Dance Theater Workshop, who put "MoveOpolis!"