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The Bessies the eleventh annual New York Dance & Performance Awards

Title: The Bessies [videorecording] : the eleventh annual New York Dance & Performance Awards / hosted by Dance Theater Workshop in association with The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center.
Publication: c1995.

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Description

2 videocassettes (VHS, NTSC) (180 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Dance Theater Workshop.

Uniform Title

Approaching no calm counting laughter (Choreographic work : Dorfman)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Special event coverage and commentary.
Video.

Performer (note)

Masters of ceremonies: Ellie Covan, David Cale.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at Kaufmann Concert Hall, The 92nd Street Y, New York, N.Y., on Sept. 12, 1995; video documentation, Character Generators Inc.; camera, Amy Baker, Nikki Castro.

Contents

Cassette 1 (ca. 91 min.). Welcome / by Bessie Schönberg.
Introductory remarks / by David R. White, executive director and producer, Dance Theater Workshop; and Laurie Uprichard, executive director, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church.
[Comedy] / by David Cale and Ellie Covan, masters of ceremonies.
Visual design awards / presented by Gabriel Berry to David Fritz and Carol Mullins, Gretchen Bender, Michael Stiller, Elliot Caplan.
Composer awards / presented by Pauline Oliveros to Guy Klucevsek, Raúl Jaurena, Philip Glass, Ysaye Barnwell.
Special citation #1 / presented by Nancy Ticotin to Tina Ramírez.
Special citation #2 / presented by Jerri Allyn to Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo.
[Speech on behalf of Dancers Responding to AIDS] / by Hernando Cortez and Denise Roberts.
A communal voice / musical performance by Ysaye Barnwell.
In memoriam: Reza Abdoh (video).
Cassette 2 (ca. 89 min.). School's out: the naming project (excerpts) / a video and performance work by and about lesbian and gay youth; directed by Mary Ellen Strom; featuring the work of Prudence Browne, Diana Casillas, Alex Cervantes, Andres Montoya, Isa Murillo, Sabina Modeste, Jason Newland, Nelson Rodriguez; lighting, Phil Sandström; facilitated by Barbara Bickart and Bridget Hughes.
Special citation #3 / presented posthumously by Marlies Yearby to Melvin Davis.
Performance awards / presented by Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden to Lawrence Goldhuber, Lisa Race, Jamie Bishton, Renee Redding-Jones, Kristen Borg, Frédéric Gafner.
Choreographer/creator awards / presented by Eiko Otake [of Eiko and Koma] and Ralph Lemon to Reza Abdoh (posthumous award), Simone Forti, Lisa Jones and Alva Rogers, Janie Geiser, William Douglas and José Navas, Jennifer Miller and Circus Amok, Mary Ellen Strom and participants in School's out: the naming project, Neil Greenberg.
Closing remarks / by Ellie Covan and David Cale.
Approaching no calm / choreography, David Dorfman; music, Amy Denio; danced by David Dorfman and Lisa Race.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7420

OCLC

NYPY04-F101

Title

The Bessies [videorecording] : the eleventh annual New York Dance & Performance Awards / hosted by Dance Theater Workshop in association with The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center.

Imprint

c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped in performance at Kaufmann Concert Hall, The 92nd Street Y, New York, N.Y., on Sept. 12, 1995; video documentation, Character Generators Inc.; camera, Amy Baker, Nikki Castro.

Performer

Masters of ceremonies: Ellie Covan, David Cale.

Local Subject

New York Dance and Performance Awards.

Added Author

Schönberg, Bessie. Speaker

White, David R. Speaker

Uprichard, Laurie. Speaker

Cale, David. Host

Covan, Ellie. Host

Berry, Gabriel, speaker.

Fritz, David. Honoree

Mullins, Carol. Honoree

Bender, Gretchen. Honoree

Stiller, Michael, 1961- honoree.

Caplan, Elliot. Honoree

Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016. Speaker

Klucevsek, Guy. Honoree

Jaurena, Raúl. Honoree

Glass, Philip. Honoree

Barnwell, Ysaye M. Honoree. Musician

Ticotin, Nancy. Speaker

Ramírez, Tina. Honoree

Allyn, Jerri. Speaker

Ingberman, Jeanette, 1952- Honoree

Colo, 1946- Honoree

Cortez, Hernando. Speaker

Roberts, Denise, speaker.

Abdoh, Reza, choreographer.

Abdoh, Reza, performer.

Abdoh, Reza, honoree.

Strom, Mary Ellen, director.

Strom, Mary Ellen. Honoree

Yearby, Marlies. Speaker

Davis, Melvin C. Honoree

Edwards, Cathy. Speaker

Yarden, Guy. Speaker

Goldhuber, Lawrence. Honoree

Race, Lisa. hnr, dancer.

Bishton, Jamie. Honoree

Redding-Jones, Renee. Honoree

Borg, Kristen. Honoree

Gafner, Frédéric. Honoree

Otake, Eiko, speaker.

Lemon, Ralph. Speaker

Forti, Simone. Honoree

Jones, Lisa. Honoree

Rogers, Alva. Honoree

Geiser, Janie. Honoree

Douglas, William. Honoree

Navas, José. Honoree

Miller, Jennifer. Honoree

Greenberg, Neil, 1959- Honoree

Dorfman, David, choreographer.

Dorfman, David, dancer.

Denio, Amy. Composer

Baker, Amy.

Castro, Nikki.

Dance Theater Workshop.

92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.). Harkness Dance Center.

Character Generators/Video.

Added Title

Approaching no calm counting laughter (Choreographic work : Dorfman)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7420

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