Sara Mearns, a star in the New York dance world for some time now and also principal dancer with New York City Ballet, was nominated for Outstanding Performer. Below, I included all of the categories and nominations to help you stay up to date with your ballet gossip. So far, only the award for breakout choreographer has been given out. Not sure when the other winners will be announced. Or even if there are winners? I asked around and people have no idea whether being nominated is the award or if they actually pick a winner from each category. I also checked out their website (The Bessies) and it seems to me that being nominated is the award. But, if anybody knows for sure, please feel free to comment below.
OUTSTANDING PERFORMER:
- Courtney cook
- Sustained achievement with Urban Bush Women, Maria Bauman, and Marguerite Hemmings
- DUANE CYRUS
- For his performance in Virago-Man Dem
- Choreographer: Cynthia Oliver
- BAM Fisher
- JULIAN BARNETT
- For Darkness Odyssey Pt 2:1 or Hallucination
- Choreographer: Kota Yamasaki
- Baryshnikov Arts Center
- SHAMAR WATT
- Sustained achievement with Nora Chipaumire
- WILLIAM ROBERSON
- For Indumba
- Choreographer: Fana Tshabalala
- BAM Fisher
- GERMAINE ACOGNY
- For Mon élue noire (My Black Chosen One): Sacre #2
- Choreographer: Olivier Dubois
- BAM Fisher
- ELIZABETH DEMENT
- 17CChoreographer: Big Dance Theater
- BAM Harvey
- KANEZA SCHAAL
- Petra
- Choreographer: Dean Moss
- Performance Space New York
- LAUREL ATWELL
- ANTHEM
- Choreographer: Milka Djordjevich
- The Chocolate Factory
- SARA MEARNS
- For sustained achievement with New York City Ballet, and various artists
- JACQUELINE GREEN
- For sustained achievement with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- ZOEY ANDERSON
- For sustained achievement with Parsons Dance
- Sustained achievement with Urban Bush Women, Maria Bauman, and Marguerite Hemmings
- For his performance in Virago-Man Dem
- Choreographer: Cynthia Oliver
- BAM Fisher
- For Darkness Odyssey Pt 2:1 or Hallucination
- Choreographer: Kota Yamasaki
- Baryshnikov Arts Center
- Sustained achievement with Nora Chipaumire
- For Indumba
- Choreographer: Fana Tshabalala
- BAM Fisher
- For Mon élue noire (My Black Chosen One): Sacre #2
- Choreographer: Olivier Dubois
- BAM Fisher
- 17CChoreographer: Big Dance Theater
- BAM Harvey
- Petra
- Choreographer: Dean Moss
- Performance Space New York
- ANTHEM
- Choreographer: Milka Djordjevich
- The Chocolate Factory
- For sustained achievement with New York City Ballet, and various artists
- For sustained achievement with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- For sustained achievement with Parsons Dance
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION:
- Geoff Sobelle
- HOME
- BAM Harvey
- Hofesh Sheather
- Grand Finale
- BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
- Matthew Bourne
- The Red Shoes
- New York City Center
- Bouchra Ouizguen
- Corbeaux (Crows)
- Brooklyn Museum CLF
- David Thomson
- he his own mythical beast
- Performance Space New York
- Marjani Forté-Saunders
- Memoirs of a... Unicorn
- Collapsable Hole; Co-presenter: New York Live Arts
- Kota Yamazaki
- Darkness Odyssey Part 2:1 or Hallucination
- Baryshnikov Arts Center
- Jonathan Gonzalez
- ZERO
- Danspace Project
- Gillian Walsh
- Moon Fate Sin
- Danspace Project; Co-presenter: PERFORMA 17
- Jimmy Robert
- Imitation of Lives
- The Glass House; Co-commission: PERFORMA 17
- Nami Yamamoto
- Headless Wolf
- Roulette
- Geoff Sobelle
- HOME
- BAM Harvey
- Hofesh Sheather
- Grand Finale
- BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
- Matthew Bourne
- The Red Shoes
- New York City Center
- Bouchra Ouizguen
- Corbeaux (Crows)
- Brooklyn Museum CLF
- David Thomson
- he his own mythical beast
- Performance Space New York
- Marjani Forté-Saunders
- Memoirs of a... Unicorn
- Collapsable Hole; Co-presenter: New York Live Arts
- Kota Yamazaki
- Darkness Odyssey Part 2:1 or Hallucination
- Baryshnikov Arts Center
- Jonathan Gonzalez
- ZERO
- Danspace Project
- Gillian Walsh
- Moon Fate Sin
- Danspace Project; Co-presenter: PERFORMA 17
- Jimmy Robert
- Imitation of Lives
- The Glass House; Co-commission: PERFORMA 17
- Nami Yamamoto
- Headless Wolf
- Roulette
2018 OUTSTANDING REVIVAL NOMINEES
- Early Shaker Spirituals
- The Wooster Group
- Performing Garage
- 40th Anniversary Retrospective
- Jane Comfort and Company
- Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
- Rite of Spring
- Pina Bausch
- BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
- Early Shaker Spirituals
- The Wooster Group
- Performing Garage
- 40th Anniversary Retrospective
- Jane Comfort and Company
- Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
- Rite of Spring
- Pina Bausch
- BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
OUTSTANDING NY DANCE AND PERFORMANCE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING “BREAKOUT” CHOREOGRAPHER (*INDICATES AWARD RECIPIENT)
Hadar Ahuvia
Hadar Ahuvia bravely interrogates the complex and fraught history of Israeli folk dance’s past and present through innovative, contemporary techniques that integrate dance, video, text and the audience. “Everything You Have is Yours” is startling, very funny, beautiful, and starkly moving.
Hadar Ahuvia bravely interrogates the complex and fraught history of Israeli folk dance’s past and present through innovative, contemporary techniques that integrate dance, video, text and the audience. “Everything You Have is Yours” is startling, very funny, beautiful, and starkly moving.
Lauren Lovette
Lauren Lovette is an inspired, theatrical, boundary breaking choreographer who has created acclaimed ballets for New York City Ballet and The Vail Dance Festival. In her creations she is reimagining movement within the classical ballet structure.
Lauren Lovette is an inspired, theatrical, boundary breaking choreographer who has created acclaimed ballets for New York City Ballet and The Vail Dance Festival. In her creations she is reimagining movement within the classical ballet structure.
Kyle Marshall
Kyle Marshall’s choreography works between dance forms and their many value systems to engage contemporary issues of identity on the concert stage. His use of rhythm and timing, a compelling, tight, visceral use of vocabulary, energy, and group work transports his dancers into different relationships and realities.
Kyle Marshall’s choreography works between dance forms and their many value systems to engage contemporary issues of identity on the concert stage. His use of rhythm and timing, a compelling, tight, visceral use of vocabulary, energy, and group work transports his dancers into different relationships and realities.
Mariana Valencia*
For seamlessly blending ethnography, memoir, and observation of cross-cultural identities in choreography that engages from start to finish. For a unique vision that uses humor and sadness, reality and imagination, to push dance and performance into new territory.
For seamlessly blending ethnography, memoir, and observation of cross-cultural identities in choreography that engages from start to finish. For a unique vision that uses humor and sadness, reality and imagination, to push dance and performance into new territory.
2018 JURIED BESSIE AWARD
Kyle Marshall
OUTSTANDING VISUAL DESIGN:
- Black Kirby (John Jennings and Stacey Robinson) and John Boesche
- Virago-Man Dem
- Choreographer: Cynthia Oliver
- BAM Fisher
- Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen
- Keen (No. 2)
- Choreographer: Ivy Baldwin
- Abrons Art Center
- Mimi Lien, Peiyi Wong, Tuçe Yasak, and Richard Forté
- Memoirs of a... Unicorn
- Choreographer: Marjani Forté-Saunders
- Collapsible Hole; Co-presenter New York Live Arts
- Let Brotherston, Duncan McLean, and Paul Constable
- The Red Shoes
- Choreographer: Matthew Bourne
- New York City Center
2018 OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION / SOUND DESIGN NOMINEES
- Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
- Sustained achievement in music composition with choreographers Jaamil Olowale Kosoko, André M. Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, and Will Rawls
- Zen Jefferson
- Let 'im Move Your: This Is a Success and Let 'Im Move You: A Study
- Choreographers: jumatatu m. poè and Donte Beacham
- Abrons Art Center
- Alim Qasimov, Johnny Gandelsman, and Colin Jacobsen
- Layla & Majnun
- Choreographer: Mark Morris
- Rose Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Ryan Seaton
- What will we be like when we get there
- Choreographer: Joanna Kotze
- New York Live Arts
Let's watch the Bessies closely to see if there is actually an award ceremony. If there is, I would love to browse through the photos of all the ballerinas in designer dresses. If the nominees are indeed the winners as well, that is fantastic news. There are numerous incredible works performed in New York each year, I imagine it is hard to pick just one. I will keep you posted as soon as I find something out. Congratulations to all of the nominees and especially Mariana Valencia as Outstanding "Breakout" Choreographer.
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