THE BESSIES ANNOUNCE NOMINEES FOR THE 2022 BESSIE AWARDS

THE BESSIES ANNOUNCE NOMINEES FOR THE 2022 BESSIE AWARDS  
 
Nai-Ni Chen to be honored with 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
 
Christie Jowers to receive Service To The Field of Dance Award
 
The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, today announced the nominees for the 2022 Bessie Awards at a virtual press conference hosted by Gibney. The Bessies also announced that renowned choreographer and dancer Nai-Ni Chen will be posthumously honored with the 2022 award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. Christine Jowers, founding editor of the online publication The Dance Enthusiast, will receive the 2022 Service to the Field of Dance Award. (The list of nominations follows below.)
 
The organization will host a Bessie Awards Reception on Friday, December 16, 2022. Produced by H+ | TOTEM Productions, this fundraising reception will be held at Chelsea Factory, 547 West 26th Street, in Manhattan, and will also be streamed live. Tickets for the in-person event will start at $38 to commemorate the 38th year, available at limited capacity. Tickets for the livestream will be available by donation. Tickets will be available beginning November 1.

​About the Honorees
 
The 2022 Bessie Awards Nominations
 
Outstanding Choreographer/Creator:
 
Kyle Abraham
An Untitled Love
Brooklyn Academy of Music
 
Sidra Bell
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala at David H. Koch Theater
 
Camille A. Brown
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
The Metropolitan Opera
 
Leslie Cuyjet
Blur
The Shed
 
Indigenous Enterprise
Indigenous Liberation
The Joyce Theater
 
Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Deep Blue Sea
Park Avenue Armory
  
Rashaad Newsome
Assembly
Park Avenue Armory
 
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
On the way, undone
Crossing the Line Festival 2021 at Weeksville Heritage Center
 
Eiko Otake
The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable
NYU Skirball
 
Anna Sperber
Bow Echo
Presented by XO Projects Inc. at Old American Can Factory
 
Raúl Tamez
On Limón Dance Company
Migrant Mother
The Joyce Theater
 
Sasha Waltz
In C
Brooklyn Academy of Music

​ Outstanding Performer:
 
Soledad Barrio
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
By Soledad Barrio
The Joyce Theater
 
Krudxs Cubensi
Queer Hip Hop Cypher
Park Avenue Armory
 
Kayla Farrish
December 8th
By Kayla Farrish in collaboration with Belinda McGuire
The Eva Yaa Asantewaa Solo for Solo Showing
Gibney
 
Carla Forte, Ildiko Toth, Joanna Lesnierowska, Ermira Goro, Rosalynde LeBlanc, and Colleen Thomas
Light and Desire
By Colleen Thomas
New York Live Arts
 
Antonio Granjero
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
By Soledad Barrio
The Joyce Theater
 
Lloyd Knight
With Martha Graham Dance Company
Treading
By Elisa Monté
The Joyce Theater
 
zavé martohardjono
TERRITORY: The Island Remembers
By zavé martohardjono in collaboration with x, Ube Halaya, Raha Behnam, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Julia Santoli, Katherine De La Cruz, Jordan Reed, Theresee Tull, Proteo Media + Performance
Gibney
 

Nikolai McKenzie
A Jamaican Battyboy in America
By Arthur Aviles
Hemispheric Institute at NYU and BAAD!
 
Doron Perk
Grandfather Visit
By Doron Perk
Presented through LABA: Laboratory for Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y
 
Antonio Ramos
Puro Teatro
By luciana achugar
The Chocolate Factory Theater
 
Yesenia Selier
Queer Hip Hop Cypher
Park Avenue Armory
 
Shannon Tyo
As "Afong Moy”
The Chinese Lady
By Lloyd Suh
Directed by Ralph B. Peña
The Barrington Stage Company and Ma-Yi Theater Company Production
The Public TheaterOutstanding Revival:
 
A Jamaican Battyboy in America
Performed by Nikolai McKenzie
Original production in 1996 by Arthur Aviles

Hemispheric Institute at NYU & BAAD!
 
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Performed by Mark Morris Dance Group
Original production in 1988 by Mark Morris
Brooklyn Academy of Music
 
Set and Reset/Reset
Performed by Candoco Dance Company
Original production in 1983 by Trisha Brown
Brooklyn Academy of Music
 
Treading
Performed by Martha Graham Dance Company
Original production in 1982 by Elisa Monté
The Joyce Theater
 
 
Outstanding Sound Design or Musical Composition:
 
Marc Álvarez (arrangement)
Carmen
By Johan Inger
Performed by Compañia Nacional de Danza
The Joyce Theater
 
Donald Eaton, Jerome Hunter, Abdel R. Salaam, Kweku Sumbry, and K. Osei Williams
TERRESTRIAL WOMBS
By Abdel R. Salaam
Presented at DanceAfrica
Brooklyn Academy of Music
 
Efrain Rozas
Puro Teatro
By luciana achugar
The Chocolate Factory Theater
 
Kwami Winfield
STELLAR
Virtual Performance
By Kyle Marshall
Baryshnikov Arts Center

Outstanding Visual Design:
 
Elizabeth Diller - DS+R, Peter Nigrini, and Robert Wierzel
Visual Environment, Video Projection, and Lighting Design
Deep Blue Sea
By Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Park Avenue Armory
 
Indigenous Enterprise
Projection, Costume Design, and Lighting Design
Indigenous Liberation
By Indigenous Enterprise
The Joyce Theater
 
Andrew Jordan and Joe Levasseur
Costume Design and Lighting Design
Narcissus
By Christopher Williams
New York Live Arts
 
New Affiliates – Ivi Diamantopoulou, Jaffer Kolb and Rashaad Newsome Studio with Truman T. Brown Jr. and Howie B., Kimberly Jones, Randy Rosenthal
Set Design and Costume Design
Assembly
By Rashaad Newsome
Park Avenue Armory
 
 
Outstanding Breakout Choreographer:
 
Flex Kingdom: Jabari Gooding, Obinnaya Williams, and Diamond DuBose
 
Sun Kim
 
Princess Lockerooo
 
Angie Pittman
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