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NEWS: ANNOUNCING THE 2017 BESSIE AWARD RECIPIENTS

7/14/2017

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The NY Dance and Performance Awards, the Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, today announced that the nominees for the 2017 Outstanding Emerging Choreographer Award are Lela Aisha Jones, Niall Jones, Will Rawls, and Kate Skarpetowska. The Bessies are also thrilled to announce that Abby Zbikowski will receive the 2017 Juried Bessie Award.
 
The 2017 Bessie Awards Nominations
 
Outstanding Production:

Vanessa Anspaugh

The End of Men; An Ode to Ocean
Joyce Unleashed at Abrons Art Center
 
Kader Attou of CCN de la Rochelle/Cie Accrorap
OPUS 14
Fall for Dance at New York City Center
 
Bridgman / Packer
Voyeur
Sheen Center
 
Nora Chipaumire
portrait of myself as my father
BAM Fisher
 
Antony Hamilton
Meeting
La MaMa and Performance Space 122, COIL 2017
 
Jessica Lang
Thousand Yard Stare
The Joyce Theater
 
Ligia Lewis
minor matter
American Realness at Abrons Art Center
 
Taylor Mac
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
St. Ann’s Warehouse/Pomegranate Arts
  
Crystal Pite
The Statement
Performed by Nederlands Dans Theater
New York City Center
 
Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang
Monchichi
BAM Fisher
 
Abdel Salaam
Healing Sevens
Featuring Forces of Nature Dance Theatre, Asase Yaa African American Dance Theatre, Ill Style & Peace Productions, and Dyane Harvey Salaam
DanceAfrica at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
 
Adrienne Truscott
THIS
New York Live Arts
 
Outstanding Revived Work:
 
Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd 
Conceived by Ishmael Houston-Jones. Co-directed by Ishmael Houston-Jonesand Miguel Gutierrez. John Bernd's music compositions arranged and re-mixed by Nick Hallett. Consultation by Jennifer Monson.
Danspace Project Platform 2016: Lost and Found
 
About Kazuo Ohno
By Takao Kawaguchi
Japan Society
 
Stephen Petronio Company
For Trio A (1966), Chair Pillow (1969), and Diagonal (1963) by Yvonne Rainer;Goldberg Variations (1986) by Steve Paxton; The Courtesan and the Crone(1999) by Anna Halprin
The Joyce Theater

Outstanding Performer:
 
Yeman Brown
In Citizen by Reggie Wilson
BAM Harvey
 
PeiJu Chien-Pott
In Virginie Mécène’s reimagining of Martha Graham’s 1933 solo, Ekstasis
The Joyce Theater
 
Sean Donovan
For his body of work with The Builders Association, Faye Driscoll, Witness Relocation, Jennie MaryTai Liu, and Jane Comfort
 
Jonathan Gonzalez
In minor matter by Ligia Lewis
American Realness at Abrons Art Center
 
Julie McMillan
In KO-BU by Benjamin Kimitch
Danspace Project
 
Cast of Riff this, Riff that
By Ephrat Asherie Dance
River to River Festival, Atrium Plaza
 
Anna Schön
In Citizen by Reggie Wilson
BAM Harvey
 
Nicholas Sciscione
In excerpts from Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations
Presented by the Stephen Petronio Company
The Joyce Theater
 
Ensemble of Skeleton Architecture: Maria Bauman, Sidra Bell, Davalois Fearon, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Melanie Greene, Kayla Hamilton, Jasmine Hearn, Marguerite Hemmings, Nia Love, Paloma McGregor, Sydnie L. Mosley, Rakiya Orange, Leslie Parker, Angie Pittman, Samantha Speis, Charmaine Warren, Marýa Wethers, Ni’Ja Whitson, and others*
Curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
Danspace Project Platform 2016: Lost and Found
*Edisa Weeks and Tara Aisha Willis also appeared in the cast, but are ineligible to vote on or receive awards as current Bessie Awards Committee members.
 
Daaimah Taalib-Din
In Eclipse: Visions of the Crescent and the Cross by Abdel Salaam
Aaron Davis Hall
 
Diana Vishneva
For Sustained Achievement with American Ballet Theatre
 
Cast of we free: DJ BLKWYNTR, Arielle Rosales, and Solo Woods, as well asCourtney Cook, Marguerite Hemmings, Jessica Phoenix and Italy Welton
By Marguerite Hemmings
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
 
Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design:
 
ICTUS ensemble/ROSAS
For Vortex Temporum
By Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
BAM Next Wave Festival, Howard Gilman Opera House
 
Chris Kuklis and Will Rawls
For The Planet-Eaters: Seconds
By Will Rawls
River to River Festival, National Museum of the American Indian
 
Ryan MacDonald
For The End of Men, Again
By Vanessa Anspaugh
Danspace Project
 
Alisdair Macindoe
For Meeting
By Antony Hamilton
La MaMa and Performance Space 122, COIL 2017

Outstanding Visual Design:
 
Nora Chipaumire
For portrait of myself as my father
By Nora Chipaumire
BAM Fisher
 
Taylor Mac, Niegel Smith, Machine Dazzle, Mimi Lien, John Torres, Eric Avery, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
For A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
By Taylor Mac
St. Ann’s Warehouse/Pomegranate Arts
 
Paulina Olowska
For Slavic Goddesses–A Wreath of Ceremonies
By Paulina Olowska
The Kitchen
 
Mark Ryden and Brad Fields
For Whipped Cream
By Alexei Ratmansky
Performed by American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House

The 33rd Annual Bessie Awards will be held on Monday, October 9, 2017, atNYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
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    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

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