Awards
- New York State Governor’s Award for the Arts (1989)
- National Endowment for the Arts selected her as the first recipient for the Teacher/Mentor Fellowship award for lifetime achievement (1993)
- Erine Award (1994)
Schonberg was slated to receive the American Dance Festival’s Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching but died before she was able to receive it.
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