The Mae L. Wien Awards

Over thirty-five years ago Lawrence A. Wien with his daughters and their families established the Mae L. Wien Awards at SAB. They honor Mrs. Wien, a great devotee of ballet who was also deeply interested in young people. SAB and Mrs. Wien’s family are pleased to announce the 2025 Award recipients:

Mae L. Wien Awards for Outstanding Promise
Tuscany Bramwell
Corbin R. Holloway
Lucie Richard

Mae L. Wien Faculty Award for Distinguished Service
Suki Schorer

Tuscany Bramwell was raised in Miami Beach, Florida. At the age of two, she began studying dance with her mother Alison Bramwell at her local dance studio, Dancing Plus. Three years later, she began studying at Miami City Ballet School, where she continued to train for eleven years. Tuscany attended two SAB Summer Courses between 2018 and 2022 and enrolled as a Winter Term student in the fall of 2022. Tuscany performed in SAB’s 2022, 2023, and 2024 Student Choreography Workshops and in the 2025 Spring Session of the New York Choreographic Institute. During Tuscany’s time at SAB, she has had the opportunity to perform at the David H. Koch Theater in numerous ballets, including a featured role in both George Balanchine’s Serenade at the 90th Anniversary performance with New York City Ballet and in the 4th movement of Western Symphony at the 2025 SAB Ball. Tuscany has worked as an SAB teaching assistant, aiding faculty in both Little Dancers and Preparatory Division classes during the 2024-25 school year. She graduated high school through correspondence last year and has started online college coursework. Tuscany danced as a demi-soloist in Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and in Serenade at SAB’s 2024 Workshop. This year, she performed in Glass Pieces and had a featured role in Raymonda Variations. She will be joining Ballet Austin II this fall.

Corbin R. Holloway started dancing at age 8 and quickly rose through the ranks of pre-professional training, earning early recognition with multiple Youth America Grand Prix Hope Awards and international accolades. He began his training at CityDance Conservatory in Maryland and received scholarships from American Ballet Theatre and The Royal Ballet School before coming to train at SAB’s Summer Course in 2023, joining the Winter Term that fall. While at SAB, Corbin danced featured roles for the SAB Ball at the David H. Koch Theater, including the male principal in George Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht Ballet, as well as in excerpts of Justin Peck’s In Creases and Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes. He performed the principal male role in Christopher Wheeldon’s Scènes de Ballet with New York City Ballet in the Company’s 2024 Spring Season, which he reprised at SAB’s 2024 Workshop Performances, in addition to dancing the principal male role in George Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2. His performance experience includes appearances at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Theatre, and international stages in Mexico and Italy. Corbin was honored to perform the principal male role in Raymonda Variations for the 2025 Workshop Performances and is deeply grateful to the faculty and staff at SAB for their continued guidance and support. He will begin an apprenticeship with New York City Ballet in August 2025.

Lucie Richard is from Chicago, Illinois, and began her ballet training at the age of two, following in the footsteps of her older sister. She studied at Ballet Chicago under Daniel Duell, a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet, before attending the School of American Ballet’s summer programs from 2018 to 2021. At age 14, she was invited to join SAB’s Winter Term. Her early stage experience in New York includes performing children’s roles in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® with New York City Ballet in 2021. In past SAB Workshops, Lucie has danced principal roles in George Balanchine’s Serenade and Christopher Wheeldon’s Scènes de Ballet, and has appeared in Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 and Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet. At the 2025 SAB Ball, she performed the female principal role in Balanchine’s Walpurgisnacht Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater, and has had additional stage experience with New York City Ballet performing in Stars and Stripes, Scènes de Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty and SAB’s 90th Anniversary performance of Serenade. Lucie also enjoyed dancing new works created for the New York Choreographic Institute and SAB’s Student Choreography Workshops during her time at the School. She has served as a teaching assistant at SAB, working with Girls I and the Little Dancers classes. She is completing her high school studies via correspondence this spring and will begin an apprenticeship with New York City Ballet in August 2025. In this year’s Workshop Performances, she danced the principal female role in Raymonda Variations.

Suki Schorer began her professional career with the San Francisco Ballet and then joined the New York City Ballet in 1959, becoming a principal dancer in 1968. Her repertory included principal roles in Apollo, Serenade, Concerto Barocco, Symphony in C, Stars and Stripes, Tarantella and Jewels among others. Balanchine choreographed solo roles on her in Don Quixote, Raymonda Variations, Harlequinade and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

In the early 1960s, George Balanchine asked Ms. Schorer to assist him as a teacher at the Company and in Ford Foundation Seminars for teachers. She started as a guest teacher at the School of American Ballet while still a fairly new corps dancer in the Company and she also took class with several of the founding teachers of the School. In 1972, Ms. Schorer became a member of SAB’s year-round faculty, teaching intermediate and advanced students. That same year, at Balanchine’s request, she reorganized the NYCB lecture-demonstration program for public schools, which she oversaw until 1995.

Ms. Schorer has set ballets (or ballet excerpts) choreographed by Balanchine for SAB’s Workshop Performances annually since 1973. In 2007, she staged Serenade with Francia Russell for the Bolshoi Ballet. She regularly lectures on Balanchine aesthetics and guest teaches widely in the United States and abroad. She is the author of the award-winning book Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique (Knopf, 1999) and Put Your Best Foot Forward: A Young Dancer’s Guide to Life (Workman Publishing, 2005); and is the recipient of the Dance Magazine Award for 1998, among many other honors.

With over five decades of teaching experience at the School of American Ballet, Ms. Schorer has trained many of ballet’s most renowned artists and has shaped the lives of countless young dancers. Her impact on the art form is immeasurable and she continues to pass on the Balanchine aesthetic to new generations of dancers with grace and passion.

Over the years the students who have received Mae L. Wien Awards have graduated to rewarding ballet careers. Many dance with the New York City Ballet. Others have gone to professional companies both here and abroad: American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Fort Worth Dallas Ballet, Maurice Bejart’s Ballet of the Twentieth Century, and the White Oak Project. Several of the older awardees’ performing careers have ended; some have stayed in the ballet world and are teachers, choreographers, and ballet mistresses. Others have pursued such diverse second careers as forestry, catering, finance, physical therapy and news casting.

The Mae L. Wien Awardees are: