2006 Bessies Award Recipients |
| We Congratulate the 2006 Bessie Award Recipients: Choreographer/Creators Wally Cardona, for Everywhere at BAM Miguel Gutierrez, for Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies, at Dance Theater Workshop Susan Marshall, for Cloudless at Dance Theater Workshop Bebe Miller and the creative team, for Landing/Place at Dance Theater Workshop Jeremy Wade, for Glory at Dance Theater Workshop Yasuko Yokoshi, for What We When We at Danspace Project Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, for Walking with Performers Shani Nwando Ikerioha Collins, for her Body of Work with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE Roxane D'Orléans Juste, for Sustained Achievement with the José Limón Dance Company Hristoula Harakas, for Maria Hassabi's trilogy A forest in Benoít Lachambre, for FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS at Dance Theater Workshop Ryutaro Mishima, for What We When We at Danspace Project Valda Setterfield, for Sustained Achievement Michael Trusnovec, for his Body of Work with Paul Taylor Dance Company Installation & New Media Verdensteatret, for Concert for Composers Pete Drungel, for Michael Portnoy's The K Sound at The Kitchen Hahn Rowe, for FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS at Dance Theater Workshop Visual Design Jonathan Belcher, for his designs for Jeremy Wade and Lenore Doxsee, for lighting design for Miguel Gutierrez's Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies at Dance Theater Workshop Mikki Kunttu, for Tero Saarinen Company at The Special Citations Olga Garay, for her long-standing commitment to performing arts presenting institutions during her career Dianne McIntyre, for her pioneering work with women, and with African-American and American spiritual traditions in dance Susan E. Kennedy Award Norma Munn, in recognition of two decades of arts advocacy Click here to read the full press release. Click here to read the citations and bios of the award recipients. See a full list of past Bessie Award recipients. |