Nominations are made by the Bessie Awards Choice Committee, an impartial committee of dance trade professionals. With the change within the ceremony’s location this 12 months, a brand new nominating timeframe was established. Performances introduced between June 1, 2022, and March 31, 2023, have been eligible for consideration. Award classes embrace Excellent Choreographer/Creator, Excellent Performer, Excellent Revival, Excellent Sound Design or Music Composition, Excellent Visible Design, and Excellent Breakout Choreographer. Extra awards are given for Lifetime Achievement, Service to the Area of Dance, and a particular Juried Award in partnership with NYS DanceForce.

“Below the auspices of Lincoln Middle’s Summer season for the Metropolis, The Bessies are thrilled to rejoice this 12 months’s artists with the dance group at our first free ceremony in many years,” mentioned Bessies Government Director Heather Robles.

The 2023 Bessie Awards Nominations

Excellent Choreographer/Creator:

Vanessa Anspaugh
mourning after mornings
New York Dwell Arts

LaTasha Barnes
LaTasha Barnes presents The Jazz Continuum
The Joyce Theater

Sidra Bell
REP: Introspection
Gibney

Jessica Chen
NüWa (女媧)
Arts on Web site

Dormeshia
Dormeshia Faucet Collective: Rhythm Is Life
The Joyce Theater

Rennie Harris
Lifted
The Joyce Theater

Deborah Hay
Horse, The Solos
The Joyce Theater

Benjamin Akio Kimitch
Tiger Palms
The Shed

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Blackbare within the Basement
Danspace Challenge

Shamel Pitts
Black Gap: Trilogy and Triathlon
New York Dwell Arts

Lia Rodrigues
Encantado
Brooklyn Academy of Music

Omari Wiles
New York Is Burning
Works & Course of on the Guggenheim

Excellent Performer:

Billy Barry
Hora
By Ohad Naharin
The Joyce Theater

j. bouey
A Message from Mx. Black Copper
By j. bouey
Judson Memorial Church

Amanda Castro
Bomba II
By Amanda Castro, carried out for Ayodele Casel’s Chasing Magic
The Joyce Theater

Joyce Edwards
Grace, The Equality of Evening and Day, and Open Door
By Ronald Okay. Brown
The Joyce Theater

Timothy Edwards
Mr. TOL E. RAncE
By Camille A. Brown
The Joyce Theater

Rachel Harris
Mr. Withers
By David Parsons
The Joyce Theater

Niall Jones
C O M P R E S S I O N
By Niall Jones
Efficiency House New York

Albert Silindokuhle Ibokwe Khoza
And so that you see… our honourable blue sky and ever
enduring solar… can solely be consumed slice by slice…
By Robyn Orlin
New York Dwell Arts and FIAF’s Crossing the Line Competition

Maleek Washington
Mr. TOL E. RAncE
By Camille A. Brown
The Joyce Theater

Ensemble: Anand Bolder, Louise Dahl, Freddy Houndekindo, Eliott Marmouset, Adam Schütt, Johanna Tengan, Vincent Van Der Plas
Horse, The Solos
By Deborah Hay
Cullberg Ballet
The Joyce Theater

Ensemble: Bree Breeden, Wendell Grey II, José Lapaz Rodriguez, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Mia Martelli, Mykel Marai Nairne, Owen Prum, Kennedy Thomas
Blackbare within the Basement
By Jordan Demetrius Lloyd
Danspace Challenge

Ensemble: Marielys Burgos-Meléndez, Rafael V. Cañals Pérez, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
The Circle or Prophetic Dream
By Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez
Danspace Challenge

Excellent Revival:

Pina Bausch & Tanztheater Wuppertal
Água (1995/2023)
Brooklyn Academy of Music

Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Mr. TOL E. RAncE (2012/2022)
The Joyce Theater

Garth Fagan & Garth Fagan Dance
Prelude (1981/2022)
The Joyce Theater

Twyla Tharp
Within the Higher Room (1986/2022)
New York Metropolis Middle

Excellent Sound Design or Musical Composition:

Roman Bestion, Fouad Boussouf and Marion Castor
Näss
By Fouad Boussouf
The Joyce Theater

Graham Reynolds
Horse, The Solos
By Deborah Hay
Cullberg Ballet
The Joyce Theater

Evil Tracy The Worldwide Showoff and DJ Razor Ramon
Rome & Jewels
By Rennie Harris
The Joyce Theater

Charles Turner
LaTasha Barnes presents The Jazz Continuum
By LaTasha Barnes
The Joyce Theater

Excellent Visible Design:

Isabela Dos Santos (Animation)
Mr. TOL E. RAncE
By Camille A. Brown
The Joyce Theater

Sarai Frazier (Lighting)
all issues beneath canine, the place two issues are all the time true
By Monica Mirabile
Efficiency House New York

Zane Pihlström (Costume and Stage Design)
Firm XIV: Seven Sins
By Firm XIV
Théâtre XIV

Tina Tzoka and Loukas Bakas (Set Design), Stephanos Droussiotis (Lighting Design), Nektarios Dionysatos (Props) Dimitris Korres (Mechanical Innovations)
Transverse Orientation
By Dimitris Papaioannou 
Brooklyn Academy of Music

Excellent Breakout Choreographer:

Bryan and Shaina Baira of BAIRA

Symara Johnson

Soles of Duende: Amanda Castro, Brinda Guha, Arielle Rosales

marion spencer

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