2012  Doris Duke Performing Artist Award

2009  Alaska AIR (Artist-in-Residence) Program Fellowship Award

2007  Alaska AIR (Artist-in-Residence) Program Fellowship Award

2006  United States Artists Fellowship Award
          Dance Magazine Award

2004  Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award
          Asian Cultural Council Fellowship to Cambodia
          The Center for Creative Research Founding Fellow

1996  MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award
          New York Foundation for the Arts/Choreography Fellowship
          Award

1990  New York Dance and Performance Awards "Bessies"

1987  McKnight Fellowship
          New York Foundation for the Arts/Choreography Fellowship
          Award

1984  New York Dance and Performance Awards "Bessies"
          John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in
          Choreography

1983  Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Fellowship

1982  National Endowment for the Arts/Choreographers Fellowship
          Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS)