Preview another festive year of Bessies

The Bessie Awards Steering Committee--honoring outstanding work in New York City's diverse dance field--extends a special invitation to a cocktail reception and presentation of the 2015 award for Emerging Choreographer and the Juried Bessie Award. In additional, all Bessie Award nominations for 2015 will be announced at this essential event.

Wednesday, July 15

Cocktail reception 5-6pm*

Announcements and awards 6-7pm

Studio C at

Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center

280 Broadway (enter at 53 Chambers Street), Manhattan

(map/directions)

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Outstanding Emerging Choreographer: On July 6, the nominees for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer will be announced online at this link.

Juried Bessie Award:  The 2015 Bessie Jury includes award-winning dance artists Susan Marshall, Reggie Wilson, and Shen Wei. The honored dance maker will tour his or her work to one or more regional theaters.

2015 Bessie Awards Steering Committee:

Cora Cahan, Beverly D’Anne, Lane Harwell, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Stanford Makishi, Carla Peterson, Laurie Uprichard and Martin Wechsler

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Women photographers in the news

Photographer Carrie Mae Weems wins a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship:

Syracuse photographer receives prestigious MacArthur Fellowship

by Ken Sturtz, Syracuse.com, September 25, 2013

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© Beverly Joubert: National Geographic exhibit “Women of Vision”
“In a hunting game with her mother, a young leopard leaps through tall grass” 

National Geographic

presents

Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment

October 10, 2013–March 9, 2014 

Open daily 10am-6pm

An exhibition of work by eleven award-winning women photojournalists, curated by National Geographic Senior Photo Editor Elizabeth Krist.

“Women of Vision” features nearly 100 photographs, including moving depictions of far–flung cultures, compelling illustrations of conceptual topics such as memory and teenage brain chemistry, and arresting images of social issues like child marriage and 21st–century slavery. In addition to the photographs, visitors will have an opportunity to learn how National Geographic magazine (NGM) picture editors work closely with the photographers to select images and tell a story. Video vignettes will present first–person accounts that reveal the photographers’ individual styles, passions and approaches to their craft.

All the photographers featured in the exhibition will be at National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10, joining journalist Ann Curry for a panel discussion on the power of photography and the many people and places represented in their assignment work. The event will be live–streamed on NationalGeographic.com. Curry also wrote the foreword to the exhibition’s companion book, “Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment,” along with National Geographic magazine Editor–in–Chief Chris Johns. The book will be available in the National Geographic Museum Store.

National Geographic Museum

1145 17th Street, NW (17th and M), Washington, DC

For more information on the exhibition, click here.

For visitor's information, click here.

Kyle Abraham, Alexei Ratmansky among MacArthur "Genius" Award winners

Choreographer Kyle Abraham in conversation with Shay Wafer
at CollectiveDWNM Open House, Gibney Dance Center
(c)2012, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

24 Recipients of MacArthur ‘Genius’ Awards Named

by Felicia R. Lee, The New York Times, September 24, 2013

2013 PEN Literary Awards announced, ceremony planned for October

The 2013 PEN Literary Awards recipients include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo, former Poet Laureate Robert Hass, acclaimed playwright Larry Kramer, co-editors of Mother Jones Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, sportswriter and NPR correspondent Frank Deford, who will receive a lifetime achievement award, debut novelist Sergio De La Pava, as well as many other notable emerging and established authors.

Award winners and runners-up will be honored at the 2013 PEN Literary Awards Ceremony on Monday, October 21 at CUNY Graduate Center's Proshansky Auditorium, featuring Master of Ceremonies Andy Borowitz.

See more information and the complete list of 2013 award recipients here.