Surrounded by the cast and management staff of Yuletide Magic, a holiday extravaganza, Art and Nancy Stone, owners of Dance Olympus, DanceAmerica, Statler Records, and Art Stone Costumes were honored by Oklahoma City University's famed School of American Dance & Arts Management with a Preservation of our Heritage - American Dance Award and an Arts Management Enterprise Award.

The awards were presented by Jo Rowan, Chair of the OCU Dance Department, and John Bedford, Dean of OCU's School of American Dance & Arts Management, on stage December 7, 2003, at Oklahoma City's $53 million newly renovated Civic Center Music Hall.

The Preservation of our Heritage - American Dance Award recognized the Stones' tireless efforts to give dancers in North America the opportunity to take classes from the finest teachers; for supplying videos, CD's, tapes, and records to assist dance teachers to produce students who "do everything and do it well"; for offering dancers affordable, tastefully designed costumes that enhance their performances; and for creating a venue where dancers can learn and create on stage in front of an audience while being adjudicated by experienced performers with the main objective being improvement.

The first recipients of the School of American Dance & Arts Management Arts Management Enterprise Award, the Stones were honored for their positive influence on American dance and for epitomizing the American spirit as entrepreneurs who have achieved success in the business of show business. With a commitment to promoting and celebrating the value of giving an audience and customers a superior product by emphasizing artistic supply and demand, the School of American Dance & Arts Management presented the new award to the Stones as people who create a product that entertains and provides value to people who in turn will pay for the experiences and goods they receive.

The School of American Dance & Arts Management celebrates the dance styles produced in America's melting-pot of cultures (created "of the People, by the People, and for the People"), created on the streets of American cities, re-invented backstage, and taught in the nation's dance studios for the pleasure of participants and audiences in theaters, movie houses, and living rooms throughout our country and around the world. During the presentation of the two awards, Dean Bedford told the Stones, "You have contributed significantly to taking the American dance styles through instruction and performance to dance teachers and students throughout North America."