The NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring excellent inventive work within the discipline, has introduced the nominees for the 2022 Bessie Awards at a digital press convention hosted by Gibney. The Bessies additionally introduced that famend choreographer and dancer Nai-Ni Chen might be posthumously honored with the 2022 award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance. Christine Jowers, founding editor of the web publication The Dance Enthusiast, will obtain the 2022 Service to the Field of Dance Award.
The group will host a Bessie Awards Reception on Friday, December 16. Produced by H+ | TOTEM Productions, this fundraising reception might be held at Chelsea Factory in Manhattan, and also will be streamed reside. Tickets for the in-person occasion will begin at $38 to commemorate the 38th yr, obtainable at restricted capability. Tickets for the livestream might be obtainable by donation. Tickets might be obtainable starting November 1.
Nominations are made by the Bessie Awards Selection Committee, an impartial committee of roughly 20 dance trade professionals. Works introduced between June 1, 2021 and May 31, 2022 had been eligible for consideration. Award classes embody Outstanding Choreographer/Creator, Outstanding Revival, Outstanding Performer, Outstanding Sound Design or Music Composition, and Outstanding Visual Design.
Bessies Executive Director Heather Robles mentioned, “Artists are vital to the health of our society. We honor their process, labor, creative dedication and service with this year’s nominations.”
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 (Open name at 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 best 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 and Noche Flamenca (By Soledad Barrio, The Joyce Theater)
Krudxs Cubensi, Queer Hip Hop Cypher (Park Avenue Armory)
Kayla Farrish, December eighth (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 and 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, introduced by LABA: Laboratory for Jewish Culture on the 14thStreet 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 Theater)
Outstanding Revival:
A Jamaican Battyboy in America (Performed by Nikolai Mckenzie, Ben Rema, Hemispheric Institute at NYU & BAAD!; Original manufacturing in 1996 by Arthur Aviles)
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Performed by Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn Academy of Music; Original manufacturing in 1988 by Mark Morris)
Set and Reset/Reset (Performed by Candoco Dance Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music; Original manufacturing in 1983 by Trisha Brown)
Treading (Performed by Martha Graham Dance Company, The Joyce Theater; Original manufacturing in 1982 by Elisa Monté)
Outstanding Sound Design or Musical Composition:
Marc Álvarez (association), Carmen (By Johan Inger, carried out by Compañia Nacional de Danza, The Joyce Theater)
Donald Eaton, Jerome Hunter, Abdel R. Salaam, Kweku Sumbry and Ok. Osei Williams, TERRESTRIAL WOMBS (By Abdel R. Salaam, introduced 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
For extra details about The Bessies, go to bessies.org.
