The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, celebrates a landmark 35th anniversary this year, announced the nominees for the 2019 Bessie Awards, along with the recipients of the 2019 Juried Bessie Award and 2019 Outstanding Breakout Choreographer Award.
The 2019 Bessie Awards Nominations
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The 2019 Bessie Awards Nominations
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| Outstanding Production: 600 HIGHWAYMEN The Fever Co-presented by La MaMa, The Public Theater, and Onassis USA Kyle Abraham The Runaway New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Nick Cave The Let Go Park Avenue Armory Nora Chipaumire #Punk 100% POP* N!GGA The Kitchen Merce Cunningham with stager Patricia Lent Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event BAM Opera House Tania El Khoury As Far As My Fingertips Take Me Under the Radar/The Public Theater Juliana F. May Folk Incest Abrons Arts Center and American Realness Alexei Ratmansky The Seasons American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE) The Art of Luv (Part 6): Awesome Grotto! Abrons Arts Center Caleb Teicher More Forever Guggenheim Works & Process Noa Wertheim One. One & One Vertigo Dance Company Baryshnikov Arts Center Ni'ja Whitson Oba Qween Baba King Baba Co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center Outstanding Performer: Xianix Barrera in Latido by Xianix Barrera Emerging Choreographers Series at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Warren Craft in Harlequin and Pantalone by Bill Irwin Dorrance Dance New York City Center Leslie Cuyjet Sustained Achievement with Jane Comfort, Niall Jones, Juliana F. May, Cynthia Oliver, and Will Rawls Kirsten Davis in Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni’Ja Whitson Co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center Gabrielle Hamilton in Oklahoma! choreographed by John Heginbotham St. Ann’s Warehouse Samantha Hines in Attractor by Dancenorth Australia, Lucy Guerin Inc., Gideon Obarzanek, and Senyawa The Joyce Theater Tiler Peck Sustained Achievement with New York City Ballet | Outstanding Performer (cont'd): Molly Poerstal Sustained Achievement with Hilary Clark, David Dorfman, Jeanine Durning, Alex Escalante, Juliana F. May, Susan Rethorst, Roseanne Spradlin, and Larissa Velez-Jackson Nola Sporn Smith in metamorphosis by Stacy Grossfield The Kitchen, Dance and Process Taylor Stanley in The Runaway by Kyle Abraham New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Shamar Watt Sustained Achievement in the work of Nora Chipaumire Takaomi Yoshino (aka Varvara Laptopova) in ChopEniana by Alexandre Minz Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo The Joyce TheaterOutstanding Revival: Deuce Coupe By Twyla Tharp American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House Hex By Eleo Pomare, performed by Dyane Harvey American Dance Guild Performance Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done By Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti Museum of Modern Art Outstanding Sound Design/Musical Composition: Joseph Kubera and Adam Tendler for interpretation of music of Julius Eastman, and M. Lamar for original composition inspired by Eastman for Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part by Kathy Westwater New York Live Arts Leyya Mona Tawil for Future Faith by Lime Rickey International Abrons Arts Center Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher for More Forever by Caleb Teicher Guggenheim Works & Process Outstanding Visual Design: Design Team: Tei Blow, Sean McElroy, Eben Hoffer, and Hyung Seok Jeon for The Art of Luv (Part 6): Awesome Grotto! by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE) Abrons Arts Center Design Team: Jeanne Medina and Ni’ja Whitson (Costumes), Gil Sperling, featuring art works by Wangech Mutu and Galvin Jantejes (Video), and Tuçe Yasak (Lighting) for Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni’Ja Whitson Co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center Mirella Weingarten (Set Design) for Xenos by Akram Khan Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival at Rose Theater Outstanding Breakout Choreographer (* indicates award recipient): Daina Ashbee * Jonathan González Stacy Grossfield Caleb Teicher |
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