The night remained forever young at this year’s Bessies, what with live performances, videos, tearful and grinning thank you’s, hugs and cheers for the new slew of winners, and a costume sashay thrown into wild mix of celebration that took place tonight, October 8, at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
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SIMONE FORTI TO RECEIVE AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN DANCE AND MARYA WARSHAW TO RECEIVE AWARD FOR SERVICE TO THE FIELD OF DANCE
Two groundbreakers, Brooklyn Arts Exchange founder/director Marya Warshaw and avant-garde choreographer and dancer Simone Forti, have been tapped to receive The Bessies’ highest honors.
NOMINEES FOR THE 2018 BESSIE AWARDS AND AWARDEES OF THE 2018 ANNUAL JURIED BESSIE AWARD AND 2018 OUTSTANDING “BREAKOUT” CHOREOGRAPHER ANNOUNCED TODAY
Glasses clinked and cheers crowded the air as this year’s 43 Bessie nominees were announced and celebrated today, July 11, at a cocktail party/press conference at Gibney 280, along with the winners of 2018 Juried Bessie Award and the 2018 NY Dance and Performance Award for Outstanding “Breakout” Choreographer.
A FIRST HOME TO CALL ITS OWN MABOU MINES CELEBRATES THE OPENING OF ITS FIRST THEATER IN ITS 47-YEAR TRAILBLAZING HISTORY WITH WORLD PREMIERE OF LEE BREUER AND MAUDE MITCHELL’S ‘GLASS GUIGNOL: THE BROTHER SISTER PLAY’ BASED ON WORKS BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 23 A JAM-PACKED SEASON FOLLOWS
Only Lee Breuer’s fantastical imagination, wit, and encyclopedic knowledge of theater, in association with his longtime collaborator Maude Mitchell, could… Read more »
GARTH FAGAN DANCE RETURNS FOUR PREMIERES AND SERIES OF FAGAN CLASSICS DURING JOYCE THEATER SEASON, NOVEMBER 7-12
Celebrating 47 Years, Garth Fagan Dance has four premieres up its sleeve for its Joyce Theater engagement, November 7-12. Two… Read more »
PREETI VASUDEVAN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL “STORIES BY HAND” RECEIVES WORLD PREMIERE AT NEW YORK LIVE ARTS, NOVEMBER 2-4
“Stories by Hand,” Preeti Vasudevan’s autobiographical solo that combines language, music and dance to tell its witty, poignant, and tragic… Read more »
Bienvenue欢迎WelcomeBienvenidoأهلا بك COMPANY SBB STEFANIE BATTEN BLAND TO PRESENT WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘WELCOME’ AS PART OF THE LA MAMA MOVES! DANCE FESTIVAL, ELLEN STEWART THEATRE, MAY 25-28
When the 60 Pre K children at the University Settlement House on New York’s Lower East Side built their own… Read more »
DANCING INSIDE AND OUT…AND THROUGH THE AIR LA MAMA MOVES 2017 DANCE FESTIVAL, MAY 18-JUNE 4, PRESENTS TWELVE NEW WORKS BY SEVENTEEN ARTISTS, MANY QUESTIONING THE WORLD IN WHICH WE CURRENTLY LIVE
The welcome mat for artists from the four corners of the globe has shone brightly at La MaMa’s theater… Read more »
CARNEGIE HALL ON WHEELS Ai DESIGN TRANSFORMS CADILLAC ESCALADE INTERIOR INTO WORLD CLASS SOUND ENVIRONMENT
When Beast 1 rolls out of Ai Design’s Tuckahoe studio workshop where it, along with its identical twin, Beast 2,… Read more »
MARCH 2017 ISSUE OF “DANCE INK” REVEALS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WRITTEN AND MOVEMENT LANGUAGES
As its lovers know, dance has a language of its own, written in space by the moving body. By graphically… Read more »
‘CUT PIECE FOR PANTS SUIT,’ A ONE TIME THEATRICAL RESPONSE TO THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, TAKES PLACE DECEMBER 19 AT NOON IN MADISON SQUARE PARK
Inspired by Yoko Ono’s iconic 1964 “Cut Piece,” “Cut Piece for Pants Suit,” a performance in response to the 2016… Read more »
TO BE SEEN GLOBALLY THIS YEAR INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY, LOS ANGELES, AUSTRALIA, FRANCE, BELGIUM AND MORE
Even if 34 year old Jonah Bokaer had begun choreographing the year he was born, he would have had to… Read more »