DANCES

Top Prize: Choreographer and UC Irvine dance professor Donald McKayle has won the $25,000 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award, presented at Duke University in North Carolina. McKayle, 62, was honored for lifetime achievements in modern dance. Past winners of the annual award, the largest given to any choreographer, include Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp and Anna Sokolow. McKayle’s works include “Games,” “District Storyville” and “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder,” and he has choreographed such Broadway shows as “Golden Boy” and “Sophisticated Ladies.”