BIG SURPRISES ENLIVEN BESSIE AWARDS.The dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company made a solemn and brief return to the stage September 15 in an unscheduled appearance at the Joyce Theater The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a during the sixteenth annual New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Dance and Performance "Bessie" Awards. The company suspended operations in May due to financial difficulties and artistic differences (see Dance Magazine news stories in May, June and September). Its performance lasted only a few minutes, yet the look was unmistakable--angular, Egyptian, grand. It was one of many surprises during the evening. "Ron Protas [who owns the rights to Graham's dances] saved Martha Graham. Who will now save her dances?" asked Francis Mason Francis Mason (April 2 1799 - 3 March 1874), American missionary, was born in York, England. His grandfather, also Francis Mason, was the founder of the Baptist Society in York, and his father, a shoemaker by trade, was a Baptist lay preacher there. , acting chair of the Graham Center for Contemporary Dance. Mason received a special citation for his fifty-year career as the editor of Ballet Review and reporter at WQXR radio and beyond. "The last time the Graham dancers performed her work, it was on this very stage," said Mason, pausing dramatically. "We'll be back." There were more moving speeches, teary acceptances and a few long-winded honorees. Comic bits were supplied by emcees David Dorfman and David Neumann (filling in for Dan Froot, who was in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. awaiting the birth of twins). Yvonne Rainer won a Bessie for sustained achievement, an announcement that made her drop her jaw, then grin. A founder of the seminal Judson Dance Theater Judson Dance Theater located at the Judson Memorial Church, New York the group of artists that formed Judson Dance Theater are considered the founders of Postmodern dance. The theater grew out of a dance composition class taught by Robert Dunn, a musician who had studied with John in 1962, Rainer re-entered the dance world last spring (after twenty-five years as a filmmaker) with a collage of previous works created for Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project (see Dance Magazine, November 2000). Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. de Lavallade was recognized for sustained achievement but was out of town, so Gus Solomons jr (a Dance Magazine contributor), who is working with de Lavallade in a new company called Paradigm, accepted for her. "It's about time It's About Time may refer to:
Merce Cunningham--visibly frail yet witty as ever--made an unexpected appearance when the design team for his work Biped (Aaron Copp, Shelley Eshkar, Paul Kaiser and the late Suzanne Gallo) won the evening's first visual design award. Other special citations were given to Micki Wesson, who was recognized as "a boisterous cheerleader and den mother den mother n. A woman who supervises a den of Cub Scouts. Noun 1. den mother - someone who plays the role of a den mother; "he serves as den mother to all the freshmen in this dormitory"; "she's the den mother to new " for her pro-bono arts consultation work; and the International Association of Blacks in Dance, a professional and advocacy organization for dancers of the African diaspora. The Bessie Awards, started by Dance Theater Workshop Dance Theater Workshop is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located on West 19th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. and now presented in association with the Danspace Project and the Joyce, are colloquially col·lo·qui·al adj. 1. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal. 2. Relating to conversation; conversational. named for Bessie Schonberg, a beloved dance composition teacher. For the first time, winners this year were presented with cash awards of $500 or $1,000, funded by Time Out New York magazine. The Bessies committee consists of twenty-two professionals in the field. The evening's other winners included creator/choreographers Herbin "Tamango" Van Cayseele, Marie Chouinard, Sarah East Johnson, Stephan Koplowitz, Inbal Pinto, David Rousseve and Merian Soto; performers Peter Boal, Stacy Dawson, Francie Huber, Gwen Welliver and Greg Zuccolo; composers Robert Een and Straylight (a group comprising Jason Finkelman, Charles Cohen, and Geoff Gersh); for installation and new media, Seiji Shimoda; and for visual design, Atsushi Kitagawara, Nadia Lauro and Matayo Wumni Olaiya. |
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