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The Bessies the seventh annual New York Dance & Performance Awards

Title: The Bessies [electronic resource] : the seventh annual New York Dance & Performance Awards / presented by Dance Theater Workshop.
Publication: c1990.

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Description

4 streaming video files (NTSC) (183 min.) : sd., col.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Dance Theater Workshop.

Uniform Title

Kiss (Choreographic work : Marshall)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Special event coverage and commentary.
Video.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Performer (note)

Co-hosts: Jerri Allyn and Laurie Carlos.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on September 12, 1990, by Video D Studios.

Funding (note)

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Contents

Cassette 1 (ca. 58 min.). [Speech on homophobia and censorship in the arts] / by unidentified woman and man ; replaces When push comes to shove, the scheduled presentation by Holly Hughes.
Welcome and warnings / by David R. White, executive director and producer, Dance Theater Workshop.
Opening remarks / by Jerri Allyn and Laurie Carlos.
[Statement by ACT UP].
Visual [and] lighting design awards / presented by Tony Giovannetti and Frank Moore to Susanne Poulin, Matthew Yokobosky, Roma Flowers, and Liz Prince.
Special citation 1 / presented by Deborah Jowitt to Annabelle Gamson.
Cassette 2 (ca. 43 min.). Meanwhile-- [excerpt] / written and performed by Paul Zaloom ; directed by Donny Osman.
Composer awards / presented by Lenny Pickett to Max Roach, Hans-Peter Kuhn, A. Leroy, Mimi Goese.
Special citation 2 / presented by Eiko to Beate Gordon.
Tribute to Ethyl Eichelberger (1945-1990) / by Black-eyed Susan.
[Songs] / performed by The Flirtations.
Cassette 3 (ca. 57 min.). Spacehold / choreography, Elizabeth Streb ; lighting, Heather Carson ; performed by members of Ringside [six dancers listed on frame ; only four appear].
Special citation 3 / presented by Jessica Hagedorn to Martha Wilson.
Performer awards / presented by Vicky Shick and Nicky Paraiso to Penny Hutchinson, Victoria Finlayson, Jonathan Riseling, Louise Smith, Arthur Armijo, Gail Turner.
Excerpt from White chocolate: Trip 1 trip 2 trip 3 / choreography, Laurie Carlos ; performed by Susan McKeever and Dor Greene.
Choreographer/creator awards / presented by John Kelly and Bebe Miller to Wim Vandekeybus. Continued on cassette 4.
Cassette 4 (ca. 25 min.). Choreographer/creator awards, continued / presented to Eiko and Koma, Robbie McCauley, Garth Fagan (accepted by Mary Hinkson), Karen Finley, Ulysses Dove, Mark Morris, Margarita Guergué and Hahn Rowe, Pat Oleszko.
Closing remarks / by Jerri Allyn and Laurie Carlos.
Kiss / choreography, Susan Marshall ; music, Arvo Pärt (Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten) ; lighting, Mitchell Bogard ; danced by Kathy Casey and Arthur Armijo.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 8450

OCLC

NYPY99-F677

Title

The Bessies [electronic resource] : the seventh annual New York Dance & Performance Awards / presented by Dance Theater Workshop.

Imprint

c1990.

Event

Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on September 12, 1990, by Video D Studios.

Performer

Co-hosts: Jerri Allyn and Laurie Carlos.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-6036.

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Allyn, Jerri. Host. Speaker

Carlos, Laurie. Host

Carlos, Laurie. Speaker

Carlos, Laurie, choreographer.

White, David R. Speaker

Giovannetti, Tony. Speaker

Moore, Frank. Speaker

Poulin, Susanne. Honoree

Yokobosky, Matthew. Honoree

Flowers, Roma. Honoree

Prince, Liz, 1961- Honoree

Jowitt, Deborah, speaker.

Gamson, Annabelle. Honoree

Zaloom, Paul. Author

Zaloom, Paul. Performer

Pickett, Lenny. Speaker

Roach, Max, 1924-2007. Honoree

Kühn, Hans Peter, 1952- Honoree

Leroy, A. Honoree

Goese, Mimi. Honoree

Otake, Eiko, speaker.

Gordon, Beate. Honoree

Black-Eyed Susan. Speaker

Eichelberger, Ethyl, 1945-1990. Honoree

Hagedorn, Jessica, 1949- Speaker

Wilson, Martha, 1947- Honoree

Shick, Vicky. Speaker

Paraiso, Nicky. Speaker

Hutchinson, Penny. Honoree

Riseling, Jonathan. Honoree

Finlayson, Victoria. Honoree

Smith, Louise, 1955- Honoree

Armijo, Arthur, 1960-1993. hnr, dancer.

Turner, Gail. Honoree

McKeever, Susan, dancer.

Green, Dor, dancer.

Kelly, John, 1954- Speaker

Miller, Bebe. Speaker

Vandekeybus, Wim. Honoree

McCauley, Robbie. Honoree

Fagan, Garth. Honoree

Finley, Karen. Honoree

Dove, Ulysses. Honoree

Morris, Mark, 1956- Honoree

Guergué, Margarita. Honoree

Rowe, Hahn. Honoree

Oleszko, Pat. Honoree

Casey, Kathy, dancer.

Osman, Donny. Director

Streb, Elizabeth, choreographer.

Carson, Heather. Lighting designer

Marshall, Susan, 1958- choreographer.

Pärt, Arvo. Composer

Bogard, Mitchell. Lighting designer

ACT UP (Organization)

Flirtations (A cappella group)

Ringside (Company)

Eiko and Koma. Honoree

Dance Theater Workshop.

Video D Studios.

DHCA.

Added Title

Kiss (Choreographic work : Marshall)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 8450

*MGZIC 9-6036 (former)

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