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The Bessies announce the 2019 Nominees!

7/18/2019

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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, 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
Read more here
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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    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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