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The Bessies the twelfth annual New York Dance & Performance Awards

Title: The Bessies [videorecording] : the twelfth annual New York Dance & Performance Awards / Dance Theater Workshop and the 1995-96 Bessies Committee, in association with Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church and the Dance Department of the High School of the Performing Arts.
Publication: 1996.

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Description

2 videocassettes (VHS, NTSC) (150 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Awards ceremony honoring achievements in dance and performance art in the 1995-1996 season. The presentations alternate with dance and comedy by the hosts, including Mark Dendy's impersonation of Martha Graham.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Dance Theater Workshop.

Uniform Title

Mother (Choreographic work : O'Connor)

Subject

Award presentations > New York (State) > New York
Dance > Awards > United States

Genre/Form

Dance.
Special event coverage and commentary.
Video.

Note

Additional data from event invitation and a review by Jack Anderson in the New York Times, Sept. 11, 1996.

Credits (note)

Project director, Janet Stapleton ; production manager and lighting designer, Philip W. Sandström.

Event (note)

Videotaped at La Guardia Concert Hall, Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Sept. 9, 1996.

Contents

Cassette 1 (ca. 75 min.). [Welcome] / by Bessie Schönberg.
[Introductory remarks and acknowledgments] / by David R. White, executive director of Dance Theater Workshop, and Laurie Uprichard, executive director of the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church.
Visual design awards / presented by Jennifer Tipton to Howell Binkley, Ralph Lee, Brian MacDevitt, Ming Cho Lee.
Composer awards / presented by Guy Klucevsek to Richard Einhorn, Junior "Gabu" Wedderburn.
Special citation #1 / presented by Hassan Hakmoun to Robert H. Browning, executive director of the World Music Institute.
Special citation #2 / presented by Martin Wechsler to the organization Dancers Responding to AIDS.
Mother (excerpt) / choreography, Tere O'Connor; performed by Tere O'Connor Dance.
Cassette 2 (ca. 75 min.). Performer awards / presented by Lawrence Goldhuber and Renee Redding-Jones to Susan Moran, Chrysa Parkinson, Odile Reine Adelaide, Larry Hahn, Baakari Wilder, Sondra Loring.
[Performance] / by Compagnie Azanie.
Choreographer/creator awards / presented by Molissa Fenley and Neil Greenberg to Jeff Weiss and Carlos Ricardo Martinez; David Dorfman; Fred Bendongué, Areski Hamitouche, and Compagnie Azanie; Diamánda Galás; Cynthia Oliver; Culture Clash; Everett Dance Theatre; Savion Glover, Reg E. Gaines, and George C. Wolfe; Cathy Weis.
[Closing remarks] / by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Mark Dendy.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8138

OCLC

NYPY05-F10074

Title

The Bessies [videorecording] : the twelfth annual New York Dance & Performance Awards / Dance Theater Workshop and the 1995-96 Bessies Committee, in association with Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church and the Dance Department of the High School of the Performing Arts.

Imprint

1996.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Credits

Project director, Janet Stapleton ; production manager and lighting designer, Philip W. Sandström.

Performer

Hosts: Mark Dendy, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.

Event

Videotaped at La Guardia Concert Hall, Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Sept. 9, 1996.

Added Author

Schönberg, Bessie. Speaker

White, David R. Speaker

Uprichard, Laurie. Speaker

Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo. Host

Dendy, Mark. Host

Tipton, Jennifer, speaker.

Binkley, Howell, recipient.

Lee, Ralph, recipient.

MacDevitt, Brian, recipient.

Lee, Ming Cho, recipient.

Klucevsek, Guy. Speaker

Einhorn, Richard, 1952 August 2- recipient.

Wedderburn, Junior "Gabu," recipient.

Hakmoun, Hassan. Speaker

Browning, Robert H., recipient.

Wechsler, Martin. Speaker

Goldhuber, Lawrence. Speaker

Redding-Jones, Renee, speaker.

Moran, Susan, recipient.

Parkinson, Chrysa, recipient.

Adelaide, Odile Reine, recipient.

Hahn, Larry, recipient.

Wilder, Baakari, recipient.

Loring, Sondra, recipient.

Fenley, Molissa. Speaker

Greenberg, Neil, 1959- speaker.

Weiss, Jeff, recipient.

Martinez, Carlos Ricardo, recipient.

Dorfman, David, recipient.

Bendongué, Fred, recipient.

Hamitouche, Areski, recipient.

Galás, Diamánda, recipient.

Oliver, Cynthia, recipient.

Glover, Savion, recipient.

Gaines, Reg E. (Reginald Elliot), recipient.

Wolfe, George C., recipient.

Weis, Cathy, recipient.

O'Connor, Tere, choreographer.

Stapleton, Janet, director.

Sandström, Phil. Lighting designer

New York Dance and Performance Awards.

Dancers Responding to AIDS (Organization)

Compagnie Azanie.

Culture Clash (Comedy troupe)

Everett Dance Theatre.

Dance Theater Workshop.

Added Title

Mother (Choreographic work : O'Connor)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8138

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