The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, performance, music composition and visual design. The Bessie Awards were established in 1983.
The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the BessieAwards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists...
Bessie Beatrice Carter (born 25 October 1993) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Evie Wilcox on the BBC television series Howards End...
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first self-identified...
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of...
performance piece Chambre in the mid-2010s earned a nomination at the 2016 BessieAwards. Ferver teaches at Bard College and cohosts a podcast about the dance...
presented at the 2018 Berlin Biennale. Okpokwasili has received several BessieAwards for her performances, including in works she has written and developed...
early 1990s. AuCoin is married to dancer Carolyn Hall, winner of a 2002 BessieAward for creative work in dance performance. The couple resides in Brooklyn...
Bessie Head Short Story Awards (Bessie Head Literature Awards from 2007 to 2013) is a Botswana literary award founded in 2007. It is administered by the...
singer Mitski. Byrne performed the song with Son Lux at the 95th Academy Awards, with Stephanie Hsu providing vocals in place of Mitski. On July 20, 2023...
Bessie Amelia Emery Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986) was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most...
Vermeersch Costumes: Rosas Awards: BessieAwards for the light design (1987) and choreography (1987) in New York. The dance was also awarded the Eve du Spectacle...
Foundation 2022, Section: Awards and Accomplishments, "BessieAward for Performer, The New York Dance & Performance Awards, for Noche Flamenca, (2001)"...
1986 – BessieAwards to Eva Buchmuller/Squat Theatre for visuals of Dreamland Burns. 1988 – American Theatre Wing Award to Eva Buchmuller. Award for Noteworthy/unusual...
Grant Awards: Creation & Presentation" Archived September 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine arts.gov, accessed August 18, 2013. "2004 Grant Awards: Creativity"...
Bessie Love (born Juanita Horton; September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American-British actress who achieved prominence playing innocent, young...
capable of his own magic." In 2010, he was awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award (BessieAwards) for Pam Tanowitz’s Be In The Gray With Me as...
Kate Valk Monika Wunderer The Wooster Group has won nine Obie Awards, six BessieAwards, and the 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Ongoing Ensembles...
performer for chameckilerner and John Jasperse. She has received two BessieAwards and a Guggenheim Fellowship. luciana achugar was born in 1970 in Montevideo...
Alvah Cecil Bessie (June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the movie studios for being...
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