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The Bessies the fifth annual New York Dance & Performance Awards

Title: The Bessies [electronic resource] : the fifth annual New York Dance & Performance Awards / presented by Dance Theater Workshop.
Publication: c1988.

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Found In

Dance Theater Workshop Archive.

Description

3 streaming video files (NTSC) (143 min.) : sd., col.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Dance Theater Workshop.

Uniform Title

United States (Choreographic work : Gordon)
Cranky destroyers (Choreographic work : Skura)
Sarah (Choreographic work : Carlson)
Untitled (Choreographic work : Jones)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Special event coverage and commentary.
Video.

Access (note)

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

Performer (note)

Co-hosts: Bill Irwin, Valda Setterfield.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on September 15, 1988, by Video D Studios.

Funding (note)

Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Contents

Reel 1 (ca. 52 min.). Excerpt from the Minnesota section of United States (1987) / constructed by David Gordon ; text by Carol Bly ; read and danced by Valda Setterfield.
Welcome and warnings / by David R. White, executive director and producer of Dance Theater Workshop ; includes presentation of an award to Bessie Schönberg.
Speech / by Bessie Schönberg.
Opening remarks / by Bill Irwin and Valda Setterfield.
Visual [and] lighting design awards / presented by Huck Snyder and Jennifer Tipton to David Ferri, Carol Mullins, Janie Geiser, Stan Pressner.
Composer awards / presented by Edwina Lee Tyler to James Baker, Jeff Halpern, Blue Gene Tyranny.
Reel 2 (ca. 50 min.). Excerpt from Cranky destroyers / choreography, Stephanie Skura in collaboration with the performers ; music, Beethoven (Symphony no. 5) ; costumes, Laure Drogoul ; lighting, Mary Louise Geiger ; danced by Benoît Lachambre, Brian Moran, David Rousseve, Margery Segal, Stephanie Skura, Debra Wanner.
Special citation / presented by Bill T. Jones to ACT UP.
Memoriam / introduced by Stephen Greco and Tony Whitfield ; music performed by Blue Gene Tyranny.
New York New York / excerpt from Watchface: Septophonic ; directed by Kurt Fulton and James Siena ; created and performed by Watchface.
Performer awards / presented by Mary Shultz and Ron Vawter to Joseph Lennon, Keith Sabado, Norwood Pennewell, Lance Gries, Kate Johnson, Ron Vawter.
Reel 3 (ca. 41 min.). Sarah / created and performed by Ann Carlson ; words and score, Andy Kirshner ; taped vocals performed by Shelley Brenner, Ann Carlson, Andy Kirshner.
Choreographer/creator awards / presented by David Cale and Dana Reitz to Tere O'Connor, Ann Hamilton, Wim Vandekeybus, Thierry de Mey, Peter Vermeersch, John Kelly, Elizabeth Streb, Otrabanda, William Forsythe, Ann Carlson.
Closing remarks / by Bill Irwin and Valda Setterfield ; includes presentation of choreographer/creator award to Bill Irwin.
Untitled (1988) / choreography and performance, Bill T. Jones ; music, Berlioz ("Absence").

Call Number

*MGZIDF 4006

OCLC

NYPY99-F685

Title

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

Imprint

c1988.

Event

Videotaped in performance at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, on September 15, 1988, by Video D Studios.

Performer

Co-hosts: Bill Irwin, Valda Setterfield.

Restricted Access

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

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-6042.

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Local Subject

New York Dance and Performance Awards.

Added Author

Setterfield, Valda. Host. Performer

Irwin, Bill, 1950- host.

Irwin, Bill, 1950- honoreee.

White, David R. Speaker

Schönberg, Bessie. Honoree

Snyder, Huck. Speaker

Tipton, Jennifer, speaker.

Ferri, David. Honoree

Mullins, Carol. Honoree

Geiser, Janie. Honoree

Pressner, Stan. Honoree

Tyler, Edwina Lee. Speaker

Baker, James, 1957- honoree.

Halpern, Jeff. Honoree

Tyranny, Blue Gene, 1945- Honoree. Musician

Skura, Stephanie, choreographer, dancer.

Lachambre, Benoît, dancer.

Moran, Brian, dancer.

Rousseve, David, dancer.

Segal, Margery, dancer.

Wanner, Debra, dancer.

Jones, Bill T. Speaker

Jones, Bill T., choreographer.

Jones, Bill T., dancer.

Greco, Stephen. Speaker

Whitfield, Tony. Speaker

Shultz, Mary. Speaker

Vawter, Ron. Speaker

Vawter, Ron. Honoree

Lennon, Joseph. Honoree

Sabado, Keith. Honoree

Pennewell, Norwood. Honoree

Gries, Lance. Honoree

Johnson, Kate. Honoree

Carlson, Ann, 1954- Creator. Performer. Honoree

Cale, David, speaker.

Reitz, Dana. Speaker

O'Connor, Tere. Honoree

Hamilton, Ann, 1956- Honoree

Vandekeybus, Wim. Honoree

Mey, Thierry de. Honoree

Vermeersch, Peter. Honoree

Kelly, John, 1954- Honoree

Streb, Elizabeth. Honoree

Forsythe, William, 1949- Honoree

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, choreographer.

Drogoul, Laure. Costume designer

Geiger, Mary Louise. Lighting designer

Fulton, Kurt. Director

Siena, James. Director

Kirshner, Andy. Composer. Librettist. voc

Brenner, Shelley. voc

Bly, Carol. Author

ACT UP (Organization)

Watchface (Company)

Otrabanda Company (Performing group)

Dance Theater Workshop.

Video D Studios.

DHCA.

Added Title

United States (Choreographic work : Gordon)

Cranky destroyers (Choreographic work : Skura)

Sarah (Choreographic work : Carlson)

Untitled (Choreographic work : Jones)

Found In:

Dance Theater Workshop Archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-6042 (former)

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