The New York 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 2014-15 season at its annual press conference. The 37 nominees were selected by the Bessies Selection Committee, an independent committee of 39 dance industry professionals. Produced in partnership with Dance/NYC, Bessie Award categories include Outstanding Production, Outstanding Revival, Outstanding Performer, Outstanding Music Composition or Sound Design, and Outstanding Visual Design.
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| Dance artist and awards selection committee member Walter Rutledge (left) greets nominee Storyboard P before press conference. (c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
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| Craig Peterson (Gibney Dance Center Director of Programs and Presentations) welcomes the crowd at Gibney's Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center. (c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
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| Choreographer and jury member Susan Marshall reads citation for the 2015 Juried Bessie Award, presented to choreographer Pavel Zuštiak. (c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
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| Zuštiak accepted his award in a video statement from Minneapolis where he is preparing a new work for the Walker Arts Center. (c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
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| Award selection committee member Kay Takeda reads citation for the Outstanding Emerging Choreographer Award, presented to flex dance artist Storyboard P. (c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
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| Storyboard P accepts his Outstanding Emerging Choreographer Award. photo (c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
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| Bessies director Lucy Sexton photo (c)2015 Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
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| Dance artists and award selection committee members Edisa Weeks and Gus Solomons Jr. read the remaining categories and names of nominees. The 2015 New York Dance and Performance Awards (The Bessies) will return to Harlem's Apollo Theater for its fifth presentation on Monday, October 19, 7:30pm. photo (c)2015, Eva Yaa Asantewaa |
The 2015 Bessie Nominations
Outstanding Production:
600 HIGHWAYMEN
Employee of the Year
FIAF/Crossing the Line
Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca
Antigona
The Joyce Theater
Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLOVELY
The Blues Project
The Joyce Theater
Neil Greenberg
This
New York Live Arts
Roger Guenveur Smith
Rodney King
BRIC
Xavier LeRoy
Retrospective
MoMA PS1 and Crossing the Line
Shwe Man Pwe
Music and Dance from Myanmar
Asia Society
David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group
I Understand Everything Better
Abrons Arts Center co-presented by The Chocolate Factory
Justin Peck
Rōdē,ō: Four Dance Episodes
New York City Ballet
Lincoln Center
Lemi Ponifasio/MAU
Birds with Skymirrors
Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Pam Tanowitz
Broken Story (wherein there is no ecstasy)
The Guggenheim's Works & Process
Vuyani Dance Theatre Project
Umnikelo
Fall for Dance, New York City Center
Outstanding Revival:
Alexei Ratmansky
The Sleeping Beauty
American Ballet Theatre
Outstanding Performer:
Alexandra Albrecht and Andrew Champlin
in Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack by Jillian Peña
Danspace Project
Michelle Boulé
For her body of work with Miguel Gutierrez
Lawrence Cassella
Sustained Achievement in the work of Ivy Baldwin
Talya Epstein
in Star Crap Method by Larissa Velez-Jackson
The Chocolate Factory
Robert Fairchild
in An American in Paris
The Palace Theater
Ellen Fisher
For Sustained Achievement in Performance in the work of Meredith Monk
Lauren Grant
For her overall body of work with Mark Morris
Ryan Haskett, Daniel Price, and Lil Buck
Live Performance following NYC premiere of Pharaohs of Memphis
DAMN! Film Series
TheaterLab Annex
Juan Ogalla
in Antigona by Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca
The Joyce Theater
Amar Ramasar
New York City Ballet
Ryoji Sasamoto
in OQ by Kota Yamazaki
Japan Society
Melissa Toogood
For her body of work during the 2014-15 season in the work of Kimberly Bartosik, Merce Cunningham, Rashaun Mitchell, Stephen Petronio, Sally Silvers, Pam Tanowitz, among others.
Outstanding Emerging Choreographer (*indicates award recipient):
Yve Laris Cohen
Moriah Evans
For Social Dance 1-8: Index at Issue Project Room
Troy Schumacher
Storyboard P *
Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design:
Tei Blow
for I Understand Everything Better by David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group
Abrons Arts Center co-presented by The Chocolate Factory
Robyn Orlin | Compagnie Jant-Bi
At the same time we were pointing a finger at you, we realized we were pointing three at ourselves... by Robyn Orlin | Compagnie Jant-Bi
Peak Performances at Montclair State University
Ublado Perez Conde
for CAMBUYÃN by Enlace S.C.
The New Victory Theater
Kate Valk, Bobby McElver and Max Bernstein
for Early Shaker Spirituals by The Wooster Group
St. Ann's Warehouse
Outstanding Visual Design:
Reid Bartelme in collaboration with Harriet Jung
For body of work
Kathy Kaufmann
for Bloowst windku by Rebecca Davis
HERE Art Center
Lemi Ponifasio and Helen Todd
for Birds with Skymirrors
Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Design Team: Geoff Sobelle (Creator), Steven Dufala (Scenic Installation Designer)
Christopher Kuhl (Lighting Designer), Nick Kourtides (Sound Designer), Jamie Boyle (Integrated Archive Designer), Rachel McIntosh (Specialty Props Designer)
for The Object Lesson by Geoff Sobelle
BAM Fisher
For complete information
on The New York Dance and Performance Awards,
see About The Bessies.
For information about and tickets for
the Monday, October 19 presentation
at The Apollo Theater,
click here.
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