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| Year | Category | Recipient(s) | Title Of Work | Citation | Venue | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Oustanding Creator/Choreographer | Omari Wiles | New York is Burning | For a beautiful representation of intergenerational Black experiences that pays homage to the dancers and artists from the classic documentary, “Paris is Burning”. This work is a gorgeously joyous, queer collection of dance and music stories. As a timeless tribute, it highlights the Vogue, Afro Dance, House and Ballroom community, its current cultural relevance, and prioritizes the diversity of dancers’ bodies, bringing out the power within Black dance and music. | The Guggenheim Works in Process | |
| 2023 | Oustanding Creator/Choreographer | LaTasha Barnes | LaTasha Barnes' The Jazz Continuum | A joyous celebration of Jazz dance throughout history, Barnes flexes the imposed proscenium setting to engage a communal experience, demonstrating community as the center of this form. An offering of (re)embodiment to the audience, this work showcases seamless transitions between styles, demonstrating technical mastery from the cast and deep creativity and thoughtfulness from its creator. | The Joyce Theater | https://www.latashabarnes.com/ |
| 2023 | Oustanding Creator/Choreographer | Dormeshia | Dormeshia Tap COllective's performance of: Rhythm is Life | For crafting stellar interplay between movement, sound, performer, and improvisation. Deeply human, rooted in tradition and joy, Dormeshia shows us where tap dance has been, where it is, and where it is going. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2023 | Oustanding Creator/Choreographer | Benjamin Akio Kimitch | Tiger Hands | For a beautiful work with an extraordinarily sensitive exploration of personal and cultural identity. The work creates an entirely new movement vocabulary that holds resonant memories of traditional Peking Opera dance forms, and is embedded with a shimmering novelty in a tribute to a beloved mother. | The Shed | |
| 2023 | Outstanding Performer | Albert Silindokuhle Ibokwe Khoza | And so you see… our honorable blue sky and ever enduring sun… can only be consumed slice by slice … By Robyn Orlin | A uniquely bombastic, outrageous and gorgeous performance that transcends genres, this is an unforgettably commanding performance that reveals deeper truths. | New York Live Arts | |
| 2023 | Outstanding Performer | Amanda Castro | Bomba II By Amanda Castro Performed for Ayodele Casel's Chasing Magic | Castro’s performance capacity and arresting stage presence offer playfulness, dynamism, and mastery, particularly in the connection between percussionist and dancer. Her clear delineation in performance teaches the audience about Afro-Latin influences and intrinsic tap rhythms, with a demonstrated fluency in many styles. | The Joyce Theater | https://www.acastrodance.com/ |
| 2023 | Outstanding Performer | Joyce Edwards | Grace, The Equality of Night and Day & Open Door By Ronald K. Brown | For bringing presence and identity into an exquisite embodiment of Ronald K. Brown’s work. Joyce exudes irrefutable strength, depth, warmth, reverence, conviction, and connection. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2023 | Outstanding Performer | j. bouey | A Message from Mx. Black Copper By j. bouey | For an exhilarating performance embodying Black joy. This work is an exploration of emotion and movement that evokes love, trauma, honesty, and progression. Thoughtful, unapologetic performance celebratory of life, self, and ancestry. | Judson Memorial Church | https://www.jbouey.com/ |
| 2023 | Lifetime Achievement | Virginia Johnson | For inspiring audiences for 28 years with dynamic performances as a founding member and principal dancer of Dance Theatre of Harlem. For her tenure as artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, continuing the company’s legacy of innovation and excellence, while expanding its reach and impact through collaborations with other organizations. For founding Pointe Magazine, serving as editor-in-chief for nearly a decade. For editorial vision, bringing diverse voices and perspectives to the forefront of the dance community. For a lifelong commitment to the arts, and a career of significant contributions to the world of dance as a celebrated dancer, editor, and artistic director. | |||
| 2023 | Service to the Field of Dance | Michele Byrd-McPhee | For being an incredible force in the global dance community, especially as an advocate for young girls and women in Hip-Hop. As the founder and Executive Director of Ladies of Hip-Hop, Michele has worked for decades to recontextualize spaces and conversations about Hip-Hop along gender, cultural, socio-historical and racial lines. Her vision for women of all generations in Hip-Hop has created opportunities for them to perform on concert dance stages, teach in the most prestigious dance institutions, and create incredible opportunities for them within Hip-Hop's legacy. | |||
| 2023 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | Symara Johnson | For deeply personal and profoundly joyful movement research with a choreography practice based in American and West Indian heritage. For merging movement practices with rigorous archival research which calls for being in the present moment. For a creation of space within this practice for engagement of many ideas generated on the spot, and the ability to move between them with abandonment. | |||
| 2023 | Outstanding Visual Design | Tina Tzoka & Loukas Bakas (set In thand Lighting Designer) Stephanos Droussiotis (Sculptures + Special Constructions) Nectarios Dionysatos (Props) Dimitris Korres (Mechanical Inventions) | Transverse Orientation By Dimitris Papaioannou | For a team of designers that create scenes beyond what people might think is possible, and leave them gasping in awe. The team is the ‘David Copperfield” of the field, possessing wide imaginative abilities that create the magic and make-believe of the theater. | Brooklyn Academy of Music | |
| 2023 | Outstanding Sound Design | Charles Turner and Sean Mason | LaTasha Barnes' The Jazz Continuum By LaTasha Barnes | For a New York City sonic dream of musical arrangement that pays tribute to the eras of Black music from authentic Jazz to Hip-Hop classics. The audience is brilliantly taken on a rollercoaster of musical nostalgia that makes one want to cry, dance, and move with joy. From the piano keys to the DJ turntables, and from the Jazz clubs in Harlem to the playgrounds in Brooklyn, the arrangement is a true delight to the magic of the Jazz Continuum. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2023 | Oustanding Revival | Twyla Tharp | In The Upper Room | For a masterly crafted and timeless work of dance art. In the Upper Room synthesizes choreography, costumes, music, and lighting into a transcendent experience for both audience and performers. The compelling score intersects with the bold choreography, creating an experience of raw power and grace. | New York City Center | https://www.twylatharp.org/ |
| 2023 | Bessie Juried Award | Barkha Patel | For elegantly and magnificently creating, educating, and sharing work that elevates classical Indian and Kathak dance. Patel is deeply rooted in her art form's spiritual and cultural history and is a contemporary voice that will contribute to the evolution of Kathak dance and its place in the dance world at large. | |||
| 2022 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | Princess Lockeroo | For artistry that moves the audience from spectator to fellow performer quite seamlessly, teaching about dance culture in the process. Princess Lockeroo is a multifaceted artist who has always been fully dedicated to her craft and does not miss any details in creating a full, immersive experience for her audience. | https://www.princesslockerooo.com/ | ||
| 2022 | Outstanding Visual Design | New Affiliates (Set and Costume Design) – Ivi Diamantopoulou, Jaffer Kolb, and Rashaad Newsome Studio with Truman T. Brown Jr., Howie B., Kimberly Jones, and Randy Rosenthal | Assembly by Rashaad Newsome | For an exciting multi-arts spectacle, a true celebration of African culture disseminated into current society supporting dance, music, and poetry through textiles and visual art. An impressive amalgamation of unsuspecting elements making a unified whole. | Park Avenue Armory | https://new-affiliates.us/About |
| 2022 | Outstanding Sound Design/Music Composition | Marc Álvarez | Carmen by Johan Inger performed by Compañía Nacional de Danza | For remixing music using Bizet’s original composition with a contemporary twist. There is a seamless transition from classical to contemporary that makes the music one. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Revival | Abigail Yager, Jamie Scott, and Diane Madden | Set and Reset/Reset (2021) performed by Candoco Dance Company | For a dynamic, fully embodied vision/revision of Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset (1983). Candoco dancers fully speak Brown’s vocabulary while also creating new ways to speak. With the fabric Brown laid out for them, the dancers create a vibrant tapestry that shimmers and moves with fluidity and grace. Beautiful and moving, the dancers leave the audience with much to rethink. | Brooklyn Acaedmy of Music | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Performer | Antonio Ramos | Puro Teatro by Luciana Achugar | Ramos embraces achugar’s choreographic vision to create a living landscape where bodies are in the present, joyful, courageous, vulnerable, funny, connecting, and intersecting with one another. Ramos’s movements of improvised structures are exacting, highly-skilled, charged, and playful. | The Chocolate Factory Theater | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Performer | Nikolai McKenzie Ben Rema | A Jamaican Battyboy in America by Arthur Avilés | For interpreting and adding to a revival with precision, poise, and evident generosity of spirit. McKenzie Ben Rema becomes at once a channel and a generating vessel with bold and mesmerizing dancing. | Hemispheric Institute at NYU and BAAD! | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Performer | Kayla Farrish | December 8th by Kayla Farrish in collaboration with Belinda McGuire, the Eva Yaa Asantewaa Solo for Solo Showing | For a tumble and waterfall of physicality and phrasing that at times takes one’s breath away, and at times quickens the blood. Farrish is in full control from start to finish, and is also able to offer vulnerability and heart through her performance. | Gibney | https://www.kaylafarrish.com/ |
| 2022 | Outstanding Performer | Soledad Barrio | Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca | For stamping the fire and passion of flamenco into the heart of the observer, making everyone want to be from Spain. Barrio’s blended precision, rhythm, and expressiveness do not just move with the music, but sing back to it. | The Joyce Theater | https://www.soledadbarrioandnocheflamenca.com/ |
| 2022 | Outstanding Choreographer/Creator | Raúl Tamez | Migrant Mother for the Limón Dance Company | For creating a tributary piece to the immense grief and emotional pain that migrant mothers endure. From technically complex choreography, using space and bodies to sculpt eye-catching negative and positive space, to the blended use of modern-day sound bites with music, this is a deeply somatic experience. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Choreographer/Creator | Anna Sperber | Bow Echo | With keen attention to detail in choreographic structures that relate to the environment, Sperber creates a visual, exciting rooftop ritual with movement invention and materials that break the conventional expectations of an audience. | XØ Projects Inc and The Old American Can Factory | https://www.annasperber.com/ |
| 2022 | Outstanding Choreographer/Creator | Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company | Deep Blue Sea | For a visionary, large-scale work incorporating around 100 dancers and a nontraditional use of space and production elements, culminating in a creation both universal and deeply personal. | Park Avenue Armory | |
| 2022 | Outstanding Choreographer/Creator | Leslie Cuyjet | Blur | Intimate, vulnerable, bold, and enigmatic, this visceral piece is a quiet merging of Cuyjet’s inner worlds. With sequences of highly orchestrated, improvised structures that are exacting, charged, and in the present, Cuyjet creates a vast, living landscape. | Open Call at The Shed | https://lesliecuyjet.com/ |
| 2022 | Bessies Angel Award Honoree | Emily L. Waters | Waters is being recognized for her advocacy of dance in times when artists need it the most; for ensuring dance is brought to the table as a former professional dancer; for being a trailblazer for dance in the philanthropic setting. | |||
| 2022 | Service to the Field of Dance | Christine Jowers | Jowers is an example of generosity, dedication, and commitment in service to the dance field. After her career as a dancer performing in England and the U.S., Jowers devoted herself to supporting dance artists, to writing about them with respect, truth, and love. In times when dance reviews and writers are almost extinct, when publications and dance journalists are disappearing, Jowers and The Dance Enthusiast value and care about dance criticism and documenting performances. She has and continues to ignite the dance community with passion, curiosity, and conversation. | |||
| 2022 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Nai-Ni Chen | Nai-Ni Chen was a force in the dance community with her unique choreographic body of work that fuses Eastern cultural forms of Chinese dance and the Western world of modern dance. Her vision of the immigrant’s journey of crossing cultures and adapting to a new home provided endless inspirations and opportunities for creative expressions that enrich the human experience. | https://www.nainichen.org/ | ||
| 2022 | Juried Bessie Award | Tatiana Desardouin | Desardouin’s “groove,” embraces the relationship of time with an individual’s true nature. Each moment becomes fully realized and progresses forward to reveal the dancer’s authentic self. Just as her “Passion Fruit Seeds” provide a sourceable root for individuals to create and sustain, she and her works are a galvanized source of inspiration and dopeness for the Street and Club dance community and everyone she encounters. | |||
| 2021 | Outstanding "Breakout" Choreographer | Hope Boykin | An immensely multi-talented and multifaceted dancer, choreographer, and educator, Boykin is more than a force of nature. Boykin is a writer who infuses text in her work. In a particular piece, she had singers and dancers together, voices and movement together to create many dimensions. She is a force to be reckoned with in terms of her accomplishments and accolades in the world of dance and theater. | https://www.hopeboykindance.com/ | ||
| 2021 | Outstanding Visual Design | Fritzlyn Hector (Director), Catalin Stelian (Director of Photography, Cinematography, Editor), Kofi Assane Opare (Cinematography), and Kweku Amantey Opare (Editor) | Steel Standing by Fritzlyn Hector | On a stark palette of grey and white warehouses and heavy machinery come vivid splashes of red costumes, hair, and warehouse piping. The bold color is significant to the daring of the dancers and knowledge of their fierceness. Flames are sparked not only in front of the camera, but in the heart of the viewer. The superb videography captures all the heat of the work. It is impossible not to feel the burn. | DanceAfrica 2021 at Brooklyn Academy of Music | https://catalinmedia.com/about |
| 2021 | Outstanding Sound Design/Music Composition | Pedro León and Manu Prieto | Maestro de Barra by Israel Galván | This work is a meticulous percussion of foot and hand, tapas plate and fork, pinball machine and bathroom door. León and Prieto marry the music of the ballet barre with shoe taps in a tapas bar. There is brilliant invention in singing a menu and a soccer loss as dance music. With the shoosh of a searing grill and the precise sharpness of a knife on a cutting board, they serve up delectable audible courses, a true feast for the ears. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2021 | Oustanding Revival | Molissa Fenley | State of Darkness | For a searing interrogation of The Rite of Spring, Fenley’s State of Darkness excavates the legendary score’s surging rhythms and chilling pockets of dissonance through the expansively economic interpretations of her original solo by seven supremely gifted dance artists. | The Joyce Theater | https://molissafenley.com/ |
| 2021 | Outstanding Performer | Annique Roberts | Sustained Achievement with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence | Roberts is an absolute force in our dance community. Her years of true grit and rigor with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence is profound. She has helped shape the form of the company while also maintaining the mission and philosophy of the group through superb guidance and leadership. She is an astounding performer, one who not only conveys the steps, but embodies every ounce of the work’s philosophy. The work doesn’t define her, but she has defined the work through connection, steadfast rigor, and clear work ethic. Roberts is celebrated for the dignity brought to the work, but also the ability to explore, teach, and share this work in communities throughout the world. | ||
| 2021 | Outstanding Performer | d. Sabela Grimes | The Motherboard Suite, We get what you deserve | In The Motherboard Suite, grimes brings the Africanist presence into the performance space. Upon entering the performance conversation, grimes invokes Africanist ancestral synergy that becomes the vessel (and activist) at the crossroads that interrupts and transmutes the dire premonitions repeated in Williams’ haunting poetic verse. grimes’ every movement is a declaration of power and agency that reverberates with resistance and liberation. Their skillful use of a fusion of contemporary and traditional African-derived dance forms reunites Orishas from across the oceans and centuries via the brilliant technology of the human body and spirit. | New York Live Arts | |
| 2021 | Outstanding Performer | Jasmine Hearn | The Motherboard Suite, Order of Time | While each choreographer is invited to explore “the intersection of technology and race, exploitation and mystical anarchy, where hackers are artists and activists,” Hearn takes the investigation to another realm. Hearn’s performance throughout the work is both ethereal and grounded, skillfully capturing the viewer in the juxtaposition of effort and ease, comfort and discomfort in the discovery of a dynamic sweet spot—somewhere along the journey. In The Motherboard Suite, Hearn brings multidimensional artistic tools to bear, including a choreographic practice based on an interdisciplinary approach to multiple dance forms, the use of embodied and verbal language, and being a receptive thought-partner and collaborator. | New York Live Arts | https://www.jasminehearn.com/ |
| 2021 | Outstanding Performer | LaTasha Barnes | Sustained Achievement | Barnes is celebrated globally for her musicality, athleticism, and joyful presence. “Your Favorite Dancer’s Favorite Dancer”; this is how Barnes is referred to within the dance community. With a performance history that includes Caleb Teicher & Company, Dorrance Dance, Ephrat Asherie Dance, Ladies of Hip-Hop, Passion Fruit Dance Company, and numerous wins in Lindy Hop, house dance, and hip-hop battles, Barnes is as popular as she is versatile. She is an amazing dancer telling a beautiful and captivating story. | https://www.latashabarnes.com/ | |
| 2021 | Outstanding Production | Saul Williams, Bill T. Jones, Maria Bauman, Kayla Farrish, Marjani Forté-Saunders, d. Sabela grimes, Jasmine Hearn, and Shamel Pitts | The Motherboard Suite | The Motherboard Suite is a dynamic collaboration of musicians and choreographers who use their embodied artistry to activate the space in this transformative work. In this creative exploration, time, space, and personal stories are interrogated through multiple lenses, including technology – ancient and contemporary, race and othering, exploitation and activism. The spoken word and the embodiment of text are the conjurers of the then, now and next iterations of who we become. | New York Live Arts | https://saulwilliams.com/ https://mbdance.net/ https://www.kaylafarrish.com/ https://www.jasminehearn.com/ https://shamelpitts.com/ |
| 2021 | Outstanding Production | Indigenous Enterprise | Indigenous Enterprise: Powwow Style | With stunning views of both suburban and urban landscapes, Indigenous Enterprise: Powwow Style brings to life a dynamic range of traditional American dances from various tribes. For reminding us that powwows are essential for gathering, sharing, celebrating, and preserving the rich heritage of Native American People. For presenting the authenticity of each style, offering insight into the original connection that exists between humanity and nature’s elements, and for speaking boldly to the pure necessity of the arts beyond entertainment. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2021 | Outstanding Production | Israel Galván | Maestro de Barra | Filmed in his neighborhood Spanish bar, Galván’s masterfully syncopates flamenco rhythms against everyday sounds of fish searing in a pan, soccer games blaring, or tables being set. In this “tongue in cheek” piece, traditional flamenco is wittily flipped on its heels in a deliciously engaging production that laces ballet and modern dance into Andalusian traditions. Galván’s Maestro de Barra is an exhilaratingly joyous piece that bets on hope for the future of dance and humanity. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2021 | Outstanding Production | Ayodele Casel | Ayodel Casel: Chasing Magic | For a brilliant, tuneful invention aligning music, performers, lighting, and filming. For reminding us of and revitalizing the power of connections between rhythm, music, song, and people. For truly creating magic with, and beyond, virtuosity. | The Joyce Theater | http://www.ayodelecasel.com/ |
| 2021 | Bessies Angel Award Honoree | Charmaine Warren | For being an angel in every way, from her many roles on stage as a remarkable performer, to her many years of service on the Bessies Committee, paying good attention to all kinds of dance in the city. For bringing so many Black Dance Stories to the attention of a wide audience with joy and care and rigor that buoyed our spirits during the pandemic. For being Mama Charmaine to generations of choreographers, dancers, and students while continuing to pave the way of her own mentors and dance ancestors. | https://www.charmainewarren.com/ | ||
| 2021 | Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance | DanceAfrica | In addressing the political movements of the 1960s and building on the growth of Black Dance throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the celebration DanceAfrica consistently showcases, nurtures, and augments a public understanding of the many traditional and indigenous dances of Africa and the African Diaspora. With the early implementation of the African styled Bazaar that surrounds the performance venue, DanceAfrica has become as much of a New York City cultural event as it is a series of performances. Thus, in fostering an ongoing relationship with the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation’s Youth Arts Academy, DanceAfrica has ensured that subsequent generations within the community will benefit from the foundations set forth by its founder, the late Baba Chuck Davis, and current artistic director, Abdel R. Salaam. As such, it remains the nation’s largest festival of African Dance. | https://www.bam.org/danceafrica | ||
| 2021 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | George Faison | For a life devoted to the splendors of dance’s impact on the world, Faison exploded from the ranks of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, electrified audiences with his ballet Suite Otis, and sailed over to Broadway where he was the first Black male to be awarded a Tony for “Best Choreography” for The Wiz. A beloved dance community ringmaster, Faison scaled his life beyond his own successes to help mentor a new generation, honor his elders, and uplift forgotten dance heroes while simultaneously throwing epic mix parties. After triumphing as a dancer, choreographer, director, producer, educator, and human impresario, Faison took one more momentous step opening The Faison Firehouse Theater in Harlem: a full-service theater, research, and education community center, designed to give back and uplift the many who lacked access to an ecosystem of professional dance and theater facilities. A pillar of the dance community, Faison gave form to a community’s dreams. | |||
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Kimberly Bartosik | through the mirror of their eyes | For an uncanny ability to combine the psychological, emotional and embodied experience of the everyday with technical expertise into a poetic whole, bridging generations, time, and place. | New York Live Arts | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Monica Bill Barnes and Robert Saenz de Viteri | Days Go By | For seamlessly showing us, through humor and movement, that the culture of a mall can provide insight into humanity within a truly immersive site-specific experience. | Brookfield Place New York | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Brother(hood) Dance! | Afro/Solo/Man | For bringing socio-political and environmental injustices to the forefront with sensitivity and care for the subject matter, the community, the audience, and the artists. | Gibney | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Ayodele Casel and Arturo O’Farrill | Ayodele Casel + Arturo O’Farrill | For an exhilarating, heartfelt collaboration melding Afro-Latin rhythms with tap, song, and spoken word; a story told with historical relevance and a message of empowerment for women of color. For a sensitive, authentic and honest performance that brought tears of joyful recognition; a tribute to this art form, to this partnership, and to a superlative dance artist. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | a canary torsi/Yanira Castro | Last Audience | For bringing humanity and vulnerability to a trailblazing performance. For the courage to empower audiences to make their own work within the framework of a collective creation. For conjuring five unique experiences and gifting the audience with a pre-show meal. | New York Live Arts | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Yoshiko Chuma | My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia | For inhabiting space, and intuiting history and mystery through multiple dimensions. For deploying performers in unexpected ways, surprising themselves and the audiences. For an encounter that becomes an adventure in movement, sound, and video, with a soul. | The Invisible Dog | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Colin Dunne in collaboration with Sinéad Rushe and Mel Mericer | Concert | For creating and performing an intimate, playful, virtuosic and mature multi-media work that reflects both tradition and exploration through a contemporary lens. For delivering masterful choreography, while staying true to the rhythms and movement of Irish dance, a complex genre that embraces both music and dance, with a deep history in both Ireland and the U.S. | Baryshnikov Arts Center | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Gregory Vuyani Maqoma | Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero | For an eloquent, hauntingly powerful, and deeply personal exploration of loss and violence that masterfully integrates dancers and singers in a unique and memorable production for the Prototype Festival. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Annie-B Parson | David Byrne’s American Utopia | For seamlessly combining dance, music, and the spoken word within an arresting visual and aural environment. For creating essential movement and spatial patterns that generate euphoria and surprise. For elevating the work of collaborators and fellow artists. | Hudson Theatre | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | jumatatu m. poe and Jermone “Donte” Beacham | Let ‘im Move You: This Is a Formation | For a work of rigorous beauty and deep joy created by a seemingly untiring team of artists. For a sense of wonder that lasted from the gallery into the theater and throughout the performance, continuing until the audience trailed the artists out of the building. | At Abrons Art Center | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Production | Amanda Szeglowski | this is now, and now, and now. | For her nuanced and perceptive “ode to aging,” performed with crystalline beauty by an intergenerational ensemble of women. For a sharp, humorous work that captures the longing, competition, desires and friendships of growing-up female in 1980’s America through precision team-dancing and striking musicality. | JACK | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Oluwadamilare Ayorinde | A.D. and Colored by Kyle Marshall | For his ability to expand the choreographer’s vision with relaxed, elegant movement and passionate, emotional commitment to every moment in the work of multiple choreographers, particularly Kyle Marshall. | BAM Fisher | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Grupo de Rua | Inoah by Bruno Beltraõ/Grupo de Rua | For an ensemble of ten who become one body of constant force and dynamism, propelled in a plea for freedom. For an amazing ability to keep their weight close to the ground, needing no preparation, yet never crashing; for causing a rift to darkness and awakening the Will to Power in a dance of quiet riot. | Brooklyn Academy of Music | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Burr Johnson | through the mirror of their eyes by Kimberly Bartosik | For extraordinary technical ability, coupled with deep emotional expression and generous commitment. For bridging and expanding boundaries that transcend the performance experience for the audience in the work of numerous choreographers, especially his recent work with Kimberly Bartosik. | New York Live Arts | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Wataru Kitao | The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood by Suguru Yamamoto | For a performer who brings both beautifully executed movement and vivid characters to the stage, breathing life and exquisite physicality into the many residents of one neighborhood. | The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival 2020, At Japan Society | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Huwer Anthony Marche Jr. (“King Havoc”) | LayeRhythm Jam | For acutely tuning into a sonic, visual, emotional, physical, and energetic environment with raw honesty, powerful storytelling, creative technique and deep generosity in his improvisational flexing. | Nublu | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Shannon Nash | Community Exercises for Sanctuary Spaces by Brendan Drake | For showing full command of technique and line while combining text, humor, and personal presence with outright abandon and unrelenting power. | The Brick | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Emily Pope | My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia by Yoshiko Chuma | For translucent, technical purity, an ability to quietly yet radiantly shine in an ensemble of dancers. For an enduring and sustained commitment. For inhabiting the inner strength of the choreographer’s vision. | At The Invisible Dog | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Annique Roberts | Sustained Achievement in the work of Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE | For the steadfast, quiet strength, and self assurance that belies her small frame, a unique force in the dance world shining in the repertory of Ronald K. Brown, in work as varied as ‘Ife/My Heart, Grace, and Gatekeepers. | ||
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Myssi Robinson | For Body of Work with Kyle Marshall | For boldly tearing up the stage with her brilliant, full-bodied, powerful sense of self as embodied in the work of Kyle Marshall. | ||
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Bijayini Satpathy | Kalpana – the world of Imagination by Kelucharan Mohapatra and Surupa Se | For astounding viewers with luminous and exquisite mastery over her body and the rhythms and melodies of the form. For bringing alive a range of characters — precocious child, exasperated mother, adored, divine lover, and legendary animals — with the full force of her imagination. | Presented by Drive East Festival At A.R.T. New York Theatre | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Hu Shenyuan | Under Siege by Yang Liping | For embodying femininity in a spiritual and sensual unity of silky suppleness and exquisite articulation in a very Chinese, yet universal, way of moving, in his superb cross-gender role as the concubine. | David H. Koch Theater | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Performer | Omari Wiles | Odeon by Ephrat Asherie | For bringing the striking clarity, sinuous arms, and sharp hips of his trademark “AfrikFusion” style, fusing traditional African dance, Afrobeat, Vogue, House dance and ballet to the street dance mix of Odeon. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | Gemma Bond | For fearless risk-taking, creating new and witty ways to move in both abstract and narrative works, drawing on the classical ballet vocabulary. For fusing music to movement in a distinctive voice that places human emotions and relationships in the foreground. | |||
| 2020 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | Tess Dworman | For creating an exquisitely crafted, bold work of dance theater filled with humor, surprising reveals, and a glimpse into the radical methods of bodily practice used to coax and allow art to emerge through an unreliable narrator with a fierce commitment to waiting — for joy, for presence, and for truth. | |||
| 2020 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | It’s Showtime NYC! | For embodying through movement the kaleidoscopic cultures and pulsing energy of New York City. For sharing the dynamic world of underground street dance on sidewalks, subways, and stages. | |||
| 2020 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | Gabrielle Revlock | For portraying the deep nuances of the “embrace” in an intimate duet, sourcing movement from video, and repurposing it for a duet of immense tenderness. For celebrating the nourishing relationships in female friendship in a work both healing and moving. | |||
| 2020 | Oustanding Revival | Aszure Barton | BUSK Performed by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | For combining the fragility, tenderness, and resilience that exist within the human experience. For engaging the dancers in layered and intricate choreographic structures that give way to the nuance of each individual as the complex layering of movement reveals the inherent wisdom of the body. | New York City Center | |
| 2020 | Oustanding Revival | Kyle Marshall | Colored | For creating an epic and layered portrayal of a twisted spectrum of Blackness with a trio of exquisite dancers, who together perform stereotypes and spectacle, appropriation and appreciation, reclaiming and loving these into the real as they navigate the tangled beauty of Blackness. | BAM Fisher | |
| 2020 | Oustanding Revival | Tina Croll & Jamie Cunningham/From the Horse’s Mouth honoring the 75th anniversary of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division | From The Horse’s Mouth, various works | For intimate narratives told by a broad swath of members of the international dance community. For delivering passionate and personal stories juxtaposed over a perfected and abstract format of improvisation, music and dance. | Theater at the 14th Street Y | |
| 2020 | Oustanding Revival | Adam Weinert | Monuments: Echoes in the Dance Archive | For an evening that resurrected works by Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman, giving space to the original movements and reconstructions, and for providing a deep understanding of the context within which these works originated. | The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Quran Karriem | Soundz at the Back of My Head by Thomas F. DeFrantz/Slippag | For creating sounds based on concepts of sensory movement that are imagined as lingering thoughts. For a wide range of sound experiences based on the narrator’s momentary positioning as a symbol of embodied storytelling and reflections. | Gibney | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Nhlanhla Mahlangu and Ntuthuko Mbuyazi | Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero by Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theater | For melding a magnificent and masterful combination of voices, instruments, and rhythms that perfectly matched the range of dynamic choreography that told the compelling story of Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero. | The Joyce Theater | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Stephan Moore | Last Audience by a canary torsi/Yanira Castro | For providing the tools and guidance, yet letting go of control in an authentic and unconventional approach to sound. | New York Live Arts | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Nioka Workman, nia love, and Antoine Roney | g1(host):lostatsea by nia love | For a delicately powerful musical performance carrying the movement forward beat by beat while riding on a flowing acoustic life of its own in nia love’s aquatic dance world. | Gibney | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Visual Design | Peter Born (Set and Lighting Design) | Sitting on a Man’s Head by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born | For an awe-inducing fabric installation, a marvel from within and without, which transformed the sanctuary at St. Mark’s Church. Born’s majestic enclosure swayed and glowed continuously for four hours. His installation offered a gentle and singular space within which to breathe, sing, and walk with over 30 artists and hundreds from the public who joined them. | Danspace Project | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Visual Design | Liam O’Brien & Kelly Hanson (Costume and Scenic Design), Mary Ellen Stebbins and Jane Cox (Lighting Design) | Days Go By by Monica Bill Barnes and Robert Saenz de Viteri | For expertly combining technical elements in lighting, sound, and costumes for a site-specific piece in a mall, creating a truly immersive experience for the audience. | Brookfield Place New York | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Visual Design | Ricarrdo Valentine and Orlando Zane Hunter (Video) | Afro/Solo/Man by Brother(hood) Dance! | For painting dance narratives on “many canvases,” leading audience members on journeys far beyond the upstage wall. For providing natural-seeming textures for the numerous landscapes that hold these rich stories. For strategically maneuvering smooth transitions between scenes with a multitude of props, an array of gripping digital projections, and impactful lighting designs eloquently enhancing the presentation by highlighting the dancers’ bodies. | Gibney | |
| 2020 | Outstanding Visual Design | Tim Yip (Visual Director and Set) and Beili Liu (Installation) | Under Siege by Yang Liping Contemporary Dance | For an extraordinary collection of design elements deployed to underscore the drama of the story, from the massive amount of red feathers representing blood to the thousands of scissors hanging precariously above the extraordinary dancers in magnificent costumes. | David H. Koch Theater | |
| 2020 | Special Citation | Jacqulyn Buglisi | Table of Silence | For an extraordinary ceremonial event originating on the Plaza at Lincoln Center, annually paying homage to 9/11 and the solemnity of the day. For a decade of performances, with a cast of 150+ dancers, Buddhist monks in prayer, vocalists, drummers and musicians representing the diversity and soul of the NYC dance community. For a moving meditation that transcends the day, putting out a call to action for unity and peace in the world. | ||
| 2020 | Service to the Field | Ishmael Houston-Jones | For a life in dance and performance that has demanded change, asked the hard questions, and created space and spaces for his fellow artists and students. For embracing resilience, invoking a lifelong conversation of provocation and love. For a clarity of consciousness that always sought justice and openings. | |||
| 2020 | Service to the Field | Peter Richards | For a life devoted to documenting the art of dance and performance artists. For over 30 years, with Character Generators, then independently, serving as one of the main historical “eyes” of our generation. | |||
| 2020 | Service to the Field | Harkness Center for Dance Injuries | For offering thirty years of ground-breaking attention to dancers, providing access to medical services regardless of their ability to pay. For serving more than 14,000 dancers each year, taking care of injuries and restoring health. For developing an extensive staff of doctors and physical therapists specializing in dance-generated injuries, leading research in dance medicine, and creating educational programs for caretakers of the future. | |||
| 2020 | Service to the Field | Shannon Hummel | For her dedication to providing “dance for all“ to the Red Hook, Brooklyn community through the organization Cora Dance, founded in 1998. For offering a “pay-what-you-can” program, committed to excellence, equity and community integration, providing child pick-up services, meals, homework help, and dancewear for students, working parents, and children. | |||
| 2020 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Louis Johnson | For breaking color barriers with the ease of a skilled magician, for amazing charisma and for spreading joy and love everywhere. For breaking ground as the first African American to study at the School of American Ballet and appearing in an all-white film of Damn Yankees, going on to choreograph The Wiz and Purlie, and mentoring generations of dancers at Henry Street Settlement and around the world. For instilling in all an undeniable optimism, humanity and unrivaled desire to encourage everyone to be their very best. Honored posthumously. | |||
| 2020 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Arthur Aviles and Charles Rice-Gonzalez | For being masterful artists. For transforming the South Bronx and New York City dance and performance by creating the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. For providing an artistic home for women, Latinx, People of Color, Indigenous folx, and the LGBTQ community and for placing these artists, their communities and their arts-making front and center. | |||
| 2020 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Mary Overlie | For her wild, anarchic spirit, commitment to experimentation, profound influence as a teacher, choreographer, and co-founder of Movement Research, Danspace Project, and NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, as well as her creation and articulation of The Six Viewpoints, forever changing performance through her work. Honored posthumously. | |||
| 2019 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Joan Myers Brown | For helping shape American dance over six decades spent choreographing, training, and mentoring dancers at Philadanco. For championing and creating spaces for the work of African American choreographers through the formation of such seminal organizations as The International Association of Blacks in Dance. For doing it all with grace, generosity, artistry, and leadership. | |||
| 2019 | Service to the Field of Dance | Louis Mofsie | For his tireless and visionary service for more than half a century: preserving and keeping vibrant the dances, songs, and ceremonies of multiple Native American tribal traditions. Serving as leader, teacher, scholar, and emcee extraordinaire with his Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, he has toured to all 50 states, sharing and collecting dances that would otherwise be lost to history. | https://www.lotusmusicanddance.org/louis-mosfie | ||
| 2019 | Bessies Angel Award | Laurie Uprichard | For decades dedicated to dance artists and the creation of new dance works. For her stewardship of The Bessies, aiding in their inception and sustaining them for many years after. For being a leader and beloved member of every dance community she has touched. | https://www.laurieuprichard.org/ | ||
| 2019 | Outstanding Production | Nick Cave | The Let Go | Park Avenue Armory | ||
| 2019 | Outstanding Production | nora chipaumire | #Punk 100% POP* N!GGA | The Kitchen and Crossing the Line Festiva | https://www.companychipaumire.com/ | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Production | Merce Cunningham with stager Patricia Lent and Merce Cunningham Trust | Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event | BAM Howard Gilman Opera House | https://www.mercecunningham.org/ | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Production | Tania El Khoury | As Far As My Fingertips Take Me | Under the Radar/The Public Theater | https://taniaelkhoury.com/ | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Performer | Leslie Cuyjet | Sustained Achievement with Jane Comfort, Niall Jones, Juliana F. May, Cynthia Oliver, Will Rawls | https://lesliecuyjet.com/ | ||
| 2019 | Outstanding Performer | Gabrielle Hamilton | Oklahoma!’s Dream Ballet choreographed by John Heginbotham | St. Ann’s Warehouse | https://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/introduce-yourselfie-oklahoma-dancer-gabrielle-hamilton/ | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Performer | Taylor Stanley | The Runaway by Kyle Abraham, New York City Ballet | David H. Koch Theater | https://www.nycballet.com/discover/meet-our-dancers/principal-dancers/taylor-stanley/ | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Performer | Shamar Watt | Sustained Achievement in the work of nora chipaumire | |||
| 2019 | Oustanding Revival | Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done | Yvonne Rainer, Deborah Hay, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, and Simone Forti | curated by Ana Janevski at the Museum of Modern Art | https://www.judson.org/ | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Conrad Tao and Caleb Teicher | More Forever by Caleb Teicher | Guggenheim Works & Process | https://www.conradtao.com/ & https://www.calebteicher.net/ | |
| 2019 | Outstanding Visual Design | Design Team: Jeanne Medina and Ni’Ja Whitson (Costumes), Gil Sperling featuring artworks by Wangechi Mutu and Gavin Jantjes (Video), Tuçe Yasak (Lighting) | Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni’Ja Whitson | co-commissioned by Danspace Project and Abrons Arts Center | http://www.nijawhitson.com/ | |
| 2019 | Juried Bessie Award | Alice Sheppard | For boldly and authentically inventing new movement vocabularies full of supercharged physicality and nuanced detail. Working with gravity, mechanics, human connection, and momentum, she creates work of power and empowerment. | http://alicesheppard.com/contact/press/ | ||
| 2019 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | Daina Ashbee | For using the elemental female body itself as a means to excavate and expose layered histories of violence against women. Using repetition, painful ritual, and raw and resilient bodies, her work draws the viewer into a journey of insistence and transformation. | https://www.dainaashbee.com/ | ||
| 2018 | Juried Bessie Award | Kyle Marshall | For exploring important ideas around race and sexuality in dances that embody rather than illustrate complicated issues. For drawing on a variety of movement styles to create accomplished, witty, and immensely engaging choreography. | https://www.kmchoreo.com/ | ||
| 2018 | Outstanding Breakout Choreographer | Mariana Valencia | For seamlessly blending ethnography, memoir, and observation of cross-cultural identities in choreography that engages from start to finish. For a unique vision that uses humor and sadness, reality and imagination, to push dance and performance into new territory. | http://www.marianavalencia.work/ | ||
| 2018 | Bessies Angel Award | Deborah Sale and Ted Striggles | For a lifelong commitment to supporting dance For working to better the lives of dance artists on and off the stage For warmly gathering and connecting the dance-making community across decades | |||
| 2018 | Outstanding Performer | Courtney Cook | For bringing a powerhouse presence and a soulful strength to every performance A riveting performer of searing vocal work and sensuous explosive movement, who brings her rich range of dance forms and unique theatrical power to the work of Urban Bush Women, MBDance and Marguerite Hemmings. | |||
| 2018 | Outstanding Performer | Germaine Acogny | Mon élue noire (My Black Chosen One): Sacre #2 by Olivier Dubois | BAM Fisher | http://ecoledessables.org/en/galeries/ | |
| 2018 | Outstanding Performer | Elizabeth Dement | 17C by Big Dance Theater | BAM Harvey | ||
| 2018 | Outstanding Performer | Sara Mearns | Sustained Achievement in the work of New York City Ballet, Isadora Duncan, Jodi Melnick, Wang Ramirez and Matthew Bourne For her work as a mesmerizing ballet dancer and insatiable dance explorer, known for consummate musicality, imagination, and theatricality. For an extraordinary season in which she boldly immersed herself in work by masters of hip hop, classic modern, experimental post modern, and theater ballet. | https://www.nycballet.com/discover/meet-our-dancers/principal-dancers/sara-mearns/ | ||
| 2018 | Outstanding Production | David Thomson | he his own mythical beast | Performance Space New York | http://davidhamiltonthomson.com/main/ | |
| 2018 | Outstanding Production | Geoff Sobelle | HOME | BAM Harvey | http://www.geoffsobelle.com/ | |
| 2018 | Outstanding Production | Nami Yamamoto | Headless Wolf | Roulette | https://namiyamamotoart.com/home.html | |
| 2018 | Outstanding Production | Marjani Forté-Saunders | Memoirs of a . . . Unicorn | Presented by New York Live Arts at Collapsable Hole | https://newyorklivearts.org/event/memoirs-of-a-unicorn-2/ | |
| 2018 | Outstanding Revival | Jane Comfort & Company | 40th Anniversary Retrospective | La MaMa | http://janecomfortandcompany.org/ | |
| 2018 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste | For mobilizing the technologies of the age to conjure new worlds. For bringing forth hidden languages and primal presences via layered soundscapes in his own work and in collaborations with Jaamil Olowale Kosoko, André M. Zachery/Renegade Performance Group, Jonathan Gonzalez, and Will Rawls. | http://www.jeremytoussaintbaptiste.com/bio | ||
| 2018 | Outstanding Visual Design | Mimi Lien (set), Meena Murugesan (media), Peiyi Wong (installation), Tuçe Yasak (lighting), and Richard Forté (set construction) | Memoirs of a . . . Unicorn | Presented by New York Live Arts at Collapsable Hole | https://newyorklivearts.org/event/memoirs-of-a-unicorn-2/ | |
| 2018 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Simone Forti | For her revolutionary, fearless, and widely influential approach to movement, pushing the boundaries of what dance could be—–in her dance constructions and improvised work. For years of investigation into the human body in motion, finding poetry in gravitational forces, the movement of animals, and the natural world. | |||
| 2018 | Service to the Field of Dance | Marya Warshaw | For her visionary work at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange creating a space for choreographers of all identities and backgrounds, and for students of all ages and incomes. For finding new and comprehensive ways to support the long process of creation through pioneering residencies and by fostering of a true home for dance artists and innovators. | http://petron.io/staff-board/marya-warshaw/ | ||
| 2017 | Juried Bessie Award | Abby Zbikowski | For her rigorous and utterly unique development of an authentic movement vocabulary, employed in complex and demanding structures to create dances of great energy, intensity, surprise, and danger. | http://www.abbyznewutility.org/ | ||
| 2017 | Outstanding Production | Abdel Salaam | Healing Sevens | BAM Howard Gilman Opera House | http://forcesofnature.org/ | |
| 2017 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Alisdair Macindoe | For Meeting by Antony Hamilton | La MaMa and Performance Space 122, COIL 2017 | http://alisdairmacindoe.com/ | |
| 2017 | Oustanding Performer | Anna Schön | Citizen by Reggie Wilson | |||
| 2017 | Outstanding Production | Antony Hamilton | Meeting | La MaMa and Performance Space 122, COIL 2017 | http://antonyhamiltonprojects.com/home.html | |
| 2017 | Outstanding Production | Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer | Voyeur | Sheen Center | https://www.bridgmanpacker.org/index.html | |
| 2017 | Oustanding Performer | Daaimah Taalib-Din | Eclipse: Vissions of the Cresent and the Cross by Abdel Salaam | http://www.daaimahtaalibdin.com/ | ||
| 2017 | Oustanding Performer | Ensemble of Skeleton Architecture: Maria Bauman, Sidra Bell, Davalois Fearon, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Melanie Greene, Kayla Hamilton, Jasmine Hearn, Marguerite Hemmings, Nia Love, Paloma McGregor, Sydnie L. Mosley, Rakiya Orange, Leslie Parker, Angie Pittman, Samantha Speis, Charmaine Warren, Marýa Wethers, Ni’Ja Whitson | Skeleton Architecture | Danspace | ||
| 2017 | Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance | Eva Yaa Asantewaa | For her capacity to reflect, contextualize, and discern dance work, providing an urgent and necessary voice for dance artists and their varied practices. For her work as writer, educator, mentor, and activist over many decades in print, radio, and online. For strengthening the city’s arts community as an important witness, an intentional healer, and a mindful presence. | |||
| 2017 | Outstanding Revival | Ishmael Houston-Jones, Miguel Gutierrez, Nick Hallet, Jennifer Monson | Lost and Found: Scenes From a Life and Other Works by John Bernd | Danspace Project | ||
| 2017 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Jawole Willa Jo Zollar | For forming Urban Bush Women in 1984 and bringing to the stage a complex, bold, and affirming vision of African-American women. For transforming and diversifying the field by developing new ways of training, curating, connecting, and lifting up choreographers of color. | https://www.urbanbushwomen.org/the-founder/ | ||
| 2017 | Outstanding Production | Ligia Lewis | minor matter | Abrons Art Center | http://ligialewis.com/ | |
| 2017 | Oustanding Performer | PeiJu Chien-Pott | Martha Graham’s Ekstasis, reimagined by Virginie Mécéne, | The Joyce Theater | https://peijuchienpott.org/ | |
| 2017 | Outstanding Production | Taylor Mac | A 25-Decade History of Popular Music | St. Ann's Warehouse/Pomegranate Arts | http://www.taylormac.org/ | |
| 2017 | Outstanding Visual Design | Taylor Mac (creator), Niegel Smith (director), Machine Dazzle (costume), Mimi Lien (set), John Torres (lights), Eric Avery (puppetry), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (choreography) | A 24-Decade History of Popular Music By Taylor Mac | St. Ann's Warehouse/Pomegranate Arts | ||
| 2017 | Outstanding Emerging Choreographer | Will Rawls | For creating astute, genre-eluding work that explores the relationship between movement and language and delves deeply into ideas of transmission, translation, and authorship; and for his multifaceted artistry as choreographer, writer, editor, and curator, expanding the presence of dance and performance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Rawls | ||
| 2016 | Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance | Alex Smith | For his 21-year commitment to the presentation and preservation of dance by choreographers of color through the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center. | |||
| 2016 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Brenda Bufalino | For introducing innovative concepts to tap choreography and for inspiring a new generation of tap artists to expand the art form. | American Tap Dance Orchestra and Foundation | http://brendabufalino.com/ | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Musical Composition/Sound Design | Dan Trueman in collaboration with Sō Percussion and Mobius Percussion | For building a sound system which enabled an infinitely varied aural world, using drums, percussion instruments, pieces of paper, mobile phones, wine bottles, and more. For There Might Be Others by Rebecca Lazier. | New York Live Arts | http://manyarrowsmusic.com/ | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Revival | Donald McKayle | For giving a classic modern dance powerful new life, transforming the midcentury portrayal of an African-American prison chain gang into a searingly resonant cry for our current times, performed with humanity, craft, and beauty. Featuring Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and produced by Paul Taylor American Modern Dance at the | David H. Koch Theate | http://www.donaldmckayle.com/ | |
| 2016 | Special Citation | Eiko Otake | 2015 Danspace Project Platform: A Body in Places | http://www.danspaceproject.org/catalogues/a-body-in-places/ | ||
| 2016 | Outstanding Performer | Ephrat Asherie | For a presence and a skill that is immediate and unmistakable, explosive and captivating. | https://www.ephratasheriedance.com/ | ||
| 2016 | Outstanding Visual Design | Holly Batt | For creating an immersive and interactive environment of boxes that metamorphosed in tone and purpose, from towering backdrop to dresser drawers to ritual containers for Pat Graney’s Girl Gods. | For Pat Graney’s Girl Gods at Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University | http://www.battandlear.com/about.html | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Performer | Jamar Roberts | For impeccably representing the traditional values of classic modern dance while forging new paths with his sublime artistry, technical precision, and passionate presence | Sustained Acheivement with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | https://www.alvinailey.org/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater/jamar-roberts | |
| 2016 | Emerging Choreographer | Joya Powell | For her passionate choreographic engagement with issues of justice and race in our communities and our country, for connecting with the audience in ways that make it clear that these concerns belong to all of us—and action is required. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joya_Powell | ||
| 2016 | Outstanding Performer | Kazunori Kumagal | For his powerful athletic technique combined with a riveting clarity. | Live at the Blue Note | http://www.kazukumagai.net/about/ | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Production | Maria Hassabi | PLASTIC | MoMA | http://mariahassabi.com/ | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Performer | Molly Lieber | For her introspective and tenacious performances, demonstrating her clear intention and visceral choices, and embodying the choreographic intention of a wide range of artistic processes | https://www.mollyandeleanor.com/ | ||
| 2016 | Juried Bessie Award | Pam Tanowitz | For using form and structure as a vehicle for challenging audiences to think, to feel, to experience movement; for pursuing her uniquely poetic and theatrical vision with astounding rigor and focus. | http://pamtanowitzdance.org/ | ||
| 2016 | Outstanding Production | Pat Graney | Girl Gods | Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University | http://www.patgraney.org/ | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Production | Ralph Lemon | Scaffold Room | The Kitchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lemon | |
| 2016 | Outstanding Production | Souleymane Badolo | Yimbégré | BAM Fisher | ||
| 2016 | Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance | The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | For giving the ephemeral art of dance a rich afterlife through its unrivalled collection of video, writing, photos, choreographers’ notes, and more. | https://www.nypl.org/locations/divisions/jerome-robbins-dance-division | ||
| 2015 | Outstanding Visual Design | Geoff Sobelle (Creator), Steven Dufala (Scenic Installation Designer), Christopher Kuhl (Lighting Designer), Nick Kourtides (Sound Designer), Jamie Boyle (Integrated Archive Designer), Rachel McIntosh (Specialty Props Designer) | The Object Lesson by Geoff Sobelle | BAM Fisher | ||
| 2015 | Outstanding Revival | Alexei Ratmansky | The Sleeping Beauty | American Ballet Theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Ratmansky | |
| 2015 | Outstanding Performer | Amar Ramasar | For his natural ease and contemporary presence on the classical stage. | New York City Ballet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Ramasar | |
| 2015 | Outstanding Production | David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group | I Understand Everything Better | Abrons Arts Center co-presented by The Chocolate Factory | https://www.advancedbeginnergroup.org/home/ | |
| 2015 | Outstanding Production | Dorrance Dance with Toshi Reagon and BIGLOVELEY | The Blues Project | The Joyce Theater | https://www.dorrancedance.com/the-blues-project/ | |
| 2015 | Outstanding Production | Justin Peck | Rōdē,ō: Four Dance Episodes | Lincoln Center | https://www.justin-peck.com/ | |
| 2015 | Outstanding Performer | Lauren Grant | For her overall body of work with Mark Morris | https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/the-dance-group/about/dancers/Main-Dancers/lauren-grant | ||
| 2015 | Outstanding Performer | Lawrence Casella | Sustained Achievement in the work of Ivy Baldwin | |||
| 2015 | Outstanding Performer | Melissa Toogood | For her body of work during the 2014−15 season in the work of Kimberly Bartosik, Merce Cunningham, Rashaun Mitchell, Stephen Petronio, Sally Silvers, Pam Tanowitz, among others. | |||
| 2015 | Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance | Movement Research | For nearly four decades as a creative incubator for innovation, enquiry, and dialogue. For providing a range of platforms to disseminate ideas about dance, art, and civic life via its classes, publications and weekly performance gatherings. For championing the importance of artistic process. | https://movementresearch.org/ | ||
| 2015 | Juried Bessie Award | Pavel Zuštiak | For his poetic layering of movement and visual imagery, and conceiving of the stage space as a decentralized world in which the corporeal body is the focus and canvas for a wide range of human expression. | http://www.palissimo.org/pavel-zustiak | ||
| 2015 | Outstanding Production | Roger Guenveur Smith | Rodney King | BRIC Arts Media | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Guenveur_Smith | |
| 2015 | Outstanding Performer | Ryoji Sasamoto | For his mastery and presence in a dance palace filled with extraordinary movers. | Japan Society | ||
| 2015 | Lifetime Achievement in Dance | Steve Paxton | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Paxton | |||
| 2015 | Outstanding Emerging Choreographer | Storyboard P | For fusing various styles of hip-hop with elements of modern and jazz dance, creating a cinematic choreographic vision for new dance narratives and abstract movement-based works. | |||
| 2015 | Outstanding Music Composition/Sound Design | Tei Blow | I Understand Everything Better by David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group | Abrons Arts Center co-presented by The Chocolate Factory | http://teiblow.com/ | |
| 2014 | Sound Design/Composition | Nicholas Young | for inventive percussion platforms integrating the tap dancer’s traditional hardwood floor with electronic sound technology to allow for a deeply layered, live composition. | American Tap Dance Foundation’s Rhythm in Motion | http://institutefortherhythmicarts.org/index.html | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Performer | Aakash Odedra | James Brown: Get on the Good Foot – a Celebration in Dance | Apollo Theater | http://www.aakashodedra.co.uk/ | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Production | Akram Khan | Desh | Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival | http://www.akramkhancompany.net/productions/chotto-desh-2015/ | |
| 2014 | Lifetime Achievement | Arthur Mitchell | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Mitchell_(dancer) | |||
| 2014 | Outstanding Production | Camille A. Brown | Mr. Tol E. RAncE | Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts | http://www.camilleabrown.org/ | |
| 2014 | Service to the Field of Dance | Dr. Chuck Davis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Davis_(dancer) | |||
| 2014 | Juried Bessie Award | Gerard and Kelly | Timelining | http://gerardandkelly.com/ | ||
| 2014 | Emerging Choreographer | Jen Rosenblit | a Natural dance | The Kitchen | https://www.jenrosenblit.net/ | |
| 2014 | Emerging Choreographer | Jessica Lang | For the formation of her own company and its inaugural season | The Joyce | http://www.jessicalangdance.com/ | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Production | John Jasperse | Within between | New York Live Arts | http://johnjasperse.org/ | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Performer | Linda Celeste Sims | Sustained Acheivement in the work of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | |||
| 2014 | Outstanding Revived Work | Nora Chipaumire | Dark Swan performed by Urban Bush Women | The Joyce | https://www.companychipaumire.com/past-work | |
| 2014 | Outstanding Production | Okwui Okpokwasili in collaboration with Peter Born | Bronx Gothic | Danspace Project | http://grasshopperfilm.com/film/bronx-gothic/ | |
| 2014 | Visual Design | Peter Ksander, Olivera Gajic, Ryan Holsopple, Chris Kuhl, and Keith Skretch | This Was the End by Mallory Catlett | The Chocolate Factory | ||
| 2014 | Outstanding Performer | Rebecca Serrell Cyr | Donna Uchizono’s "Fire Underground" | New York Live Arts | ||
| 2014 | Sound Design/Composition | Simphiwe Dana with Giuliano Modarelli, and Complete Quartet | Exit/Exist, choreographed by Gregory Maqoma | Kumble Theater for the Performing Art | ||
| 2014 | Outstanding Performer | Stuart Singer | John Jasperse’s "Within between" | New York Live Arts | https://movementresearch.org/people/stuart-singer | |
| 2013 | Sound Design/Composition | Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells | The Quiet Volume | Performance Space 122 and PEN World Voices Festival | http://www.anthampton.com/tqv_eng.html | |
| 2013 | Outstanding Revived Work | Bill T. Jones | D-Man in the Waters | Joyce Theater | ||
| 2013 | Outstanding Performer | Charles “Lil Buck” Riley and Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles | Poisson Rouge | http://www.lilbuck.com/ | ||
| 2013 | Juried Bessie Award | Darrell Jones | ||||
| 2013 | Visual Design | Fleur Elise Noble | 2 Dimensional Life of Her | Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater | http://insitearts.com.au/2-dimensional-life-of-her/ | |
| 2013 | Outstanding Performer | Herman Cornejo | Sustained Achievement in American Ballet Theater | http://www.hermancornejo.com/ | ||
| 2013 | Outstanding Performer | Jaro Viňarský | Pavel Palissimo’s "Bastard" | La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival | ||
| 2013 | Outstanding Production | Joanna Haigood | Paseo | Dancing in the Streets & Casita Maria Center for Arts | http://www.zaccho.org/?event_paseo | |
| 2013 | Emerging Choreographer | Joanna Kotze | It Happened It Had Happened It Is Happening It Will Happen | Danspace Project | http://www.joannakotze.com/it-happened-it-had-happened-it-is-happening-it-will-happen/ | |
| 2013 | Outstanding Production | Liz Santoro | Watch It | Museum of Arts and Design | ||
| 2013 | Lifetime Achievement | Louis “Luigi” Faccuito | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Louis_Faccuito | |||
| 2013 | Outstanding Production | Michael Keegan-Dolan | Rian | Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival | http://fabulousbeast.net/production/rian | |
| 2013 | Service to the Field of Dance | Nancy Reynolds | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reynolds | |||
| 2013 | Outstanding Performer | Sebastien Ramirez and Honji Wang | AP15 | Breakin’ Convention at the Apollo Theater | http://www.wangramirez.com/en/work/ap15 | |
| 2013 | Outstanding Performer | Shantala Shivalingappa | Shiva Ganga | http://shantalashivalingappa.com/en/ | ||
| 2013 | Outstanding Production | Zach Morris, Tom Pearson and Jennine Willett | Then She Fell | Third Rail Projects at Arts@Rennaissance and Kingsland Ward at St. Johns | https://thenshefell.com/about/ | |
| 2012 | Service to the Field of Dance | Alice Teirstein | ||||
| 2012 | Visual Design | Doris Dziersk | Meg Stuart’s “Blessed” | New York Live Arts | ||
| 2012 | Outstanding Performer | Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormeshia_Sumbry-Edwards | |||
| 2012 | Outstanding Production of a work in the expanding field of new art, dance, and performance practice | Emily Johnson | The Thank-you Bar | New York Live Arts | http://www.catalystdance.com/thankyoubar/ | |
| 2012 | Sound Design/Composition | Flamme Kapaya and his band | For Faustin Linyekula’s “more more more… future” | the Kitchen | ||
| 2012 | Outstanding Production of a work that stretches the boundaries of a traditional or culturally specific form | Israel Galvan | La Edad de Oro | The Joyce Theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Galv%C3%A1n | |
| 2012 | Outstanding Production Large Capacity Venue | Merce Cunningham Dance Company | Event | Park Avenue Armory | https://www.mercecunningham.org/ | |
| 2012 | Outstanding Performer | Nicole Mannarino | “Devotion Study #1 — The American Dancer” | |||
| 2012 | Outstanding Performer | Omagbitse Omagbemi | https://movementresearch.org/people/omagbitse-omagbemi | |||
| 2012 | Lifetime Achievement | Paul Taylor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Taylor_(choreographer) | |||
| 2012 | Emerging Choreographer | Rashaun Mitchell | NOX | http://www.rashaunsilasdance.com/ | ||
| 2012 | Outstanding Performer | Silas Riener | Merce Cunningham’s "Split Sides" | http://www.rashaunsilasdance.com/ | ||
| 2012 | Juried Bessie Award | Souleymane Badolo | ||||
| 2012 | Outstanding Production Small Capacity Venue | Trajal Harrall | Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church | New York Live Arts | http://betatrajal.org/artwork/2677704-Antigone-Sr-L.html | |
| 2012 | Outstanding Revived Work | Yvonne Meier | The Shining | Presented by New York Live Arts and performed at the Invisible Dog Art Center | https://movementresearch.org/people/yvonne-meier | |
| 2011 | Outstanding Production Large Capacity Venue | Alexei Ratamansky | The Bright Stream | Metropolitan Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Ratmansky | |
| 2011 | Emerging Choreographer | Beth Gill | Electric Midwife | http://www.mancc.org/artists/beth-gill/ | ||
| 2011 | Juried Bessie Award | Beth Gill | https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/beth-gill | |||
| 2011 | Individual Performance | Caleb Teicher | Michelle Dorrance/ Body Madness: A Shared Evening | http://www.calebteicher.net/ | ||
| 2011 | Service to the Field of Dance | Frederick Franklin, CBE | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Franklin | |||
| 2011 | Outstanding Production Small Capacity Venue | Ishmael Houston-Jones in collaboration with Chris Cochrane and Dennis Cooper | THEM | P.S. 122 | https://performancespacenewyork.org/them/ | |
| 2011 | Sound Design/Composition | Jon Moniaci | Electric Midwife | Chocolate Factory | http://www.jonmoniaci.com/ | |
| 2011 | Sustained Achievement in Performance for 2010 | Karen Brown | As part of the ensemble of Paradigm | |||
| 2011 | Outstanding Production of a work not technically considered dance but happening in and influencing the dance community | Karinne Keithley | Montgomery Park, or Opulence | Incubator Arts Project | http://www.fancystitchmachine.org/ | |
| 2011 | Individual Performance | Marcelo Gomes | American Ballet Theatre/ Giselle | http://www.marcelogomes.co/ | ||
| 2011 | Outstanding Production of a work that stretches the boundaries of a traditional or culturally specific form | Michelle Dorrance | Remembering Jimmy and Three to One | Danspace Project | http://www.michelledorrance.com/ | |
| 2011 | Sustained Achievement in Performance | Rashaun Mitchell | Merce Cunningham | http://www.rashaunsilasdance.com/ | ||
| 2011 | Lifetime Achievement | Trisha Brown | https://www.trishabrowncompany.org/ | |||
| 2011 | Visual Design | Walter Dundervill | Aesthetic Destiny 1: Candy Mountain | DTW | https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/walter-dundervill | |
| 2011 | Sustained Achievement in Performance | Wendy Whelan | George Balanchine, Alexei Ratmansky, Christopher Wheeldon | http://www.wendywhelan.org/about/ | ||
| 2010 | Outstanding Production | Anne Collod in dialogue with Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick | parades & changes, replays | DTW | https://www.dancemagazine.com/vital-signs-2306878053.html | |
| 2010 | Outstanding Production | Annie-B Parson | Comme Toujours, Here I Stand By Big Bang Dance Theater | The Kitchen | https://www.bigdancetheater.org/founders-directors/ | |
| 2010 | Outstanding Production | Bruno Beltrao | Grupo de Rua: H3 | DTW | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Beltr%C3%A3o | |
| 2010 | Outstanding Production | Kyle Abraham | The Radio Show | Danspace Project | http://www.abrahaminmotion.org/ | |
| 2010 | Outstanding Production | Michael Mahalchick and luciana achugar | PURO DESEO | The Kitchen | ||
| 2010 | Outstanding Production | Miguel Gutierrez | Last Meadow | DTW | http://www.miguelgutierrez.org/ | |
| 2009-2010 | Performer | David Leventhal | bringing to exhilarating life more than 40 of Mark Morris’s works. | https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/dance-center/about-the-dance-center/instructors/Adult-Faculty/David-Leventhal | ||
| 2009-2010 | Performer | Heather Olson | Dancing over many years in many works by Tere O’Connor. | https://movementresearch.org/people/heather-olson | ||
| 2009-2010 | Performer | Kayvon Pourazar | Fierce individuality of his sensual, grounded presence;fluid physicality; and for fully-embodying the choreographic sensibilities of the artists he dances with. | https://movementresearch.org/people/kayvon-pourazar | ||
| 2009-2010 | Performer | Latysha Antonio, Sofia Britos, Non Griffiths, Allegra Herman | Sarah Michelson’s Dover Beach | The Kitchen | ||
| 2009-2010 | Performer | Michelle Boule | in Miguel Gutierrez’s Last Meadow | DTW | http://michelleboule.com/ | |
| 2009-2010 | Performer | Miki Orihara | For her commitment to the true spirit and rigorous interpretation of the work of Martha Graham. | http://miki3lotus.wixsite.com/mikiorihara | ||
| 2009-2010 | Performer | Paradigm | For without fail, bringing into vibrant focus the essence of what it means to dance. Presented to the Paradigm dancers: Founders: Gus Solomons Jr, Carmen deLavallade, and Dudley Williams, and Ensemble: Valda Setterfield, Michael Blake, Hope Clark, and Keith Sabado. | http://www.paradigm-dance.org/ | ||
| 2009 | Outstanding Production | Faye Driscoll | 837 Venice Boulevard | The Here Arts Center | http://fayedriscoll.com/ | |
| 2009 | Outstanding Production | Okwui Okpokwasili | Pent-Up: A Revenge Dance | Performance Space 122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okwui_Okpokwasili | |
| 2009 | Outstanding Production | Pam Tanowitz | Be In the Gray With Me | DTW | http://pamtanowitzdance.org/ | |
| 2009 | Outstanding Production | Yanira Castro | Dark Horse/Black Forest | The Gershwin Hotel | http://acanarytorsi.org/category/people/ | |
| 2009 | Outstanding Production | Yvonne Meier | Stolen | Danspace Project | https://movementresearch.org/people/yvonne-meier | |
| 2008 | Visual Designer | Aaron Copp | Jonah Bokaer/ The Invention of Minus One | The Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project | https://www.aaroncopp.com/ | |
| 2008 | Performer | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | Outstanding Ensemble during it's 50th anniversary season | New York City Center | https://www.alvinailey.org/ | |
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Back to Back Theater | Small Metal Objects | Staten Island Ferry Terminal | http://backtobacktheatre.com/projects/small-metal-objects/ | |
| 2008 | Installation/New Media | David Michalek | Slow Dances | Lincoln Center Festival | http://www.davidmichalek.net/ | |
| 2008 | Special Achievement/Citations | Deborah Jowitt | For her longstanding dedication as a chronicler of the dance community | http://www.deborahjowitt.com/ | ||
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Doug Elkins | Fraulein Maria | Joe's Pubb | http://dougelkinschoreography.com/past/fraulein-maria/ | |
| 2008 | Performer | Hilary Clark | http://www.miguelgutierrez.org/powerfulpeople/hilary-clark/ | |||
| 2008 | Special Achievement/Citations | Jennifer Dunning | For her service to dance as an author and New York Times dance critic | https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/jennifer-dunning | ||
| 2008 | Performer | Jody Melnick | http://www.jodimelnickdance.org/ | |||
| 2008 | Visual Designer | Joe Levasseur | http://joelevasseur.com/Joe_Levasseur/Home/Home.html | |||
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Juliette Mapp | Anna, IKEA, and I | Dancespace Project | https://movementresearch.org/people/juliette-mapp | |
| 2008 | Composer | Kris Bauman | Tom Pearson and Zach Morris/ Vanishing Point | Danspace Project | http://www.krisbauman.com/ | |
| 2008 | Special Achievement/Citations | Laurie Uprichard | For her contributions to contemporary dance and performance through her leadership at Danspace Project | https://www.pcah.us/people/laurie_uprichard | ||
| 2008 | Performer | Layard Thompson | ||||
| 2008 | Performer | Leah Morrison | Trisha Brown/ If You Couldn’t See Me and I Love My Robots | The Joyce | https://movementresearch.org/people/leah-morrison | |
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Maguy Marin | Umwelt | The Joyce | https://www.dansedanse.ca/en/compagnie-maguy-marin | |
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Meg Stuart | http://www.damagedgoods.be/ | |||
| 2008 | Composer | Nitin Sawhney | Akram Khan's Zero Degrees | New York City Center | http://www.nitinsawhney.com/ | |
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Nora Chipaumire | Chimurenga | DTW | https://www.companychipaumire.com/ | |
| 2008 | Visual Designer | Richard Siegal, Antoine Seigneur-Guerrini, Philip Bußmann and Norbert Pape | Richard Siegal/ As If Stranger | Danspace Project | ||
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Susan Rethorst | 208 East Broadway Part 2: Suitcase Dreams | Danspace Project | https://susanrethorst.com/ | |
| 2008 | Choreographer/Creator | Tom Pearson, Zach Morris | Vanishing Point | Dancspace Project | https://thirdrailprojects.com/vanishingpoint#vppage | |
| 2008 | Performer | William Isaac | Karole Armitage/ Connoisseurs of Chaos | The Joyce | https://www.kymeradance.com/william.html | |
| 2008 | Composer | Zeena Parkins | Sustained Achievement | http://www.zeenaparkins.com/ | ||
| 2007 | Performer | Adriane Fang | Body of Work with Doug Varone | |||
| 2007 | Composer | Anthony Caplan and the African Music Workshop | Men-Jaro | Kumble Theater, co-presented by 651 Arts and Danspace Project | ||
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and artistic collabroators | Chapel/ Chapter | Harlem Stage | ||
| 2007 | Special Achievement/Citations | Chez Bushwick | For its commitment to supporting experimental dance at affordable prices | http://chezbushwick.net/ | ||
| 2007 | Performer | Clifton Brown | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 2007 season | New York City Center | https://www.alvinailey.org/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater/clifton-brown?gclid=CjwKCAjwr-PYBRB8EiwALtjbz28zjPHZUXdCBb4s2xeogPPrAYmWiucJy-KDJLxq2mT1ddTxHKAPoBoCE5cQAvD_BwE | |
| 2007 | Composer | Dietrich Kruger and Niels Lanz | Three Atmospheric Studies | Brooklyn Academy of Music | ||
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Doug Varone | Boats Leaving | The Joyce Theater | http://www.dougvaroneanddancers.org/ | |
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Emmanuel Gat | Rite of Spring | Lincoln Center Festival | https://emanuelgatdance.com/ | |
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Germaine Acogny & Kota Yamazaki | Fagaala | BAM Harvey Theater, presented by 651 Arts | ||
| 2007 | Performer | Gino Grenek | Body of Work with Stephen Petronio | |||
| 2007 | Visual Designer | Jane Cox | Boats Leaving | The Joyce | http://janecoxlight.virb.com/ | |
| 2007 | Visual Designer | Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg | Must Don’t Whip ‘Um | St. Ann’s Warehouse | ||
| 2007 | Special Achievement/Citations | Judith Jamison | For expanding the artistic programs of the Ailey Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Jamison | ||
| 2007 | Performer | Karen Sherman | Her role in Morgan Thorson's "Faker" | P.S. 122 | ||
| 2007 | Performer | Kenneth Flak | CYP17 | Danspace Project | https://www.roosnaflak.com/ | |
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Luciana Achugar | Exhausting Love at Danspace Project | Danspace Project | http://www.lachugar.org/ | |
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Mark Morris | Mozart Dances | Lincoln Center, presented by Mostly Mozart Festival | https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/ | |
| 2007 | Special Achievement/Citations | Mary Hinkson | For her long-standing dedication to the dance field | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hinkson | ||
| 2007 | Performer | Nora Chipaumire | Urban Bush Women's season at The Joyce Theater | The Joyce | https://www.companychipaumire.com/ | |
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Saburo Teshigawara | Bones in Pages | Lincoln Center Festival | http://www.st-karas.com/index_en/ | |
| 2007 | Visual Designer | Sarah Michelson, Parker Lutz, and Davison Scandrett | Dogs | BAM Harvey Theater | ||
| 2007 | Visual Designer | Thomas Dunn | Nottthing is Importttant | The Kitchen | http://thomasdunn.7-arts.com/ | |
| 2007 | Installation/New Media | William Forsythe | You Made Me a Monster | Baryshnikov Arts Center | https://www.williamforsythe.com/williamforsythe.html | |
| 2007 | Choreographer/Creator | Yoshiko Chuma | Sustained Achievement | http://www.yoshikochuma.org/ | ||
| 2007 | Composer | Zeena Parkins | Body of Work | http://www.zeenaparkins.com/ | ||
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Bebe Miller | Landing/ Place | DTW | http://bebemillercompany.org/ | |
| 2006 | Performer | Benoît Lechambre | FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS | DTW | ||
| 2006 | Special Achievement/Citations | Dianne McIntyre | Pioneering work with women, and with African-American and American spiritual traditions in dance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_McIntyre | ||
| 2006 | Composer | Hahn Rowe | FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS | DTW | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahn_Rowe | |
| 2006 | Performer | Hristoula Harakas | Maria Hassabi/ A forest in Chelsea, Dead is Dead, and Still Smoking | The Kitchen | https://movementresearch.org/people/hristoula-harakas | |
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Jawole Willa Jo Zollar | Walking with Pearl…Southern Diaries | DNA | https://www.urbanbushwomen.org/the-founder/ | |
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Jennifer Monson | Flight of Mind | DTW | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Monson | |
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Jeremy Wade | Glory | DTW | http://www.jeremywade.de/desktop.html | |
| 2006 | Visual Designer | Jonathan Belcher | Jeremy Wade’s Glory and Body of Work/ Reggie Wilson | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-belcher-2159504 | ||
| 2006 | Visual Designer | Lenore Doxsee | Miguel Gutierrez/ Retrospective Exhibitionist & Difficult Bodies | DTW | http://johnjasperse.org/portfolio/lenore-doxsee/ | |
| 2006 | Performer | Michael Trusnovec | Body of Work/ Paul Taylor Dance Company | New York City Center | http://www.ptamd.org/main/about-ptamd/michael-trusnovec-2/ | |
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Miguel Gutierrez | Retrospective Exhibitionist & Difficult Bodies | DTW | http://www.miguelgutierrez.org/ | |
| 2006 | Visual Designer | Mikki Kunttu | Tero Saarined Company/ Akram Khan Company | The Joyce Theater / Lincoln Center | https://www.mikkikunttu.com/ | |
| 2006 | Special Achievement/Citations | Olga Garay | Long-standing commitment to performing arts presenting institutions | https://www.americansforthearts.org/users/5032 | ||
| 2006 | Composer | Pete Drungel | Michael Portnoy/ The K Sound | The Kitchen | http://cargocollective.com/drungs/ABOUT | |
| 2006 | Performer | Roxane D’Orléans Juste | Sustained Achievement with the José Limón Company | |||
| 2006 | Performer | Ryutaro Mishima | Yasuko Yokoshi/ What We When We | Danspace Project | https://movementresearch.org/people/ryutaro-mishima | |
| 2006 | Performer | Shani Collins | Body of Work/ Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE | The Joyce Theater | https://www.conncoll.edu/directories/faculty-profiles/shani-collins/ | |
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Susan Marshall | Cloudless | DTW | http://www.sumac.org/team-1/ | |
| 2006 | Performer | Valda Setterfield | Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valda_Setterfield | ||
| 2006 | Installation & New Media | Verdensteatret | Concert for Greenland | P.S. 122 | http://verdensteatret.com/ | |
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Wally Cardona | Everywhere | BAM | http://www.wcvismorphing.org/pages/cardona.html | |
| 2006 | Choreographer/Creator | Yasuko Yokoshi | What We When We | Danspace Project | http://bacnyc.org/residencies/resident/yasuko-yokoshi | |
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Alonzo King | Sustained Achievement | https://www.linesballet.org/company/alonzo-king/ | ||
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Basil Twist | Dogugaeshi | Japan Society | http://www.basiltwist.com/ | |
| 2005 | Special Achievement/Citations | Carla Peterson | For guts and gumption in directing Movement Research | https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/carla-peterson/ | ||
| 2005 | Visual Designer | Chloë Z. Brown | For her lighting design for Amanda Loulaki's La la la la, Resistance (The Island of Breezes) | DTW | ||
| 2005 | Performer | Chris Yon | David Neumann/ tough, the tough | Danspace Project | http://chrisyon.net/ | |
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Christopher Williams | Ursula & the 11,000 Virgins | P.S. 122 | http://www.christopherwilliamsdance.org/ | |
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Cynthia Hopkins | Accidental Nostalgia | St. Ann's Warehouse | http://cynthiahopkins.com/ | |
| 2005 | Performer | Dudley Williams | Sustained Achievement/ the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | |||
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Gideon Obarzanek and the entire Chunky Move creative team | Tense Dave | DTW | http://chunkymove.com/company/associated-artists/gideon-obarzanek/ | |
| 2005 | Special Achievement/Citations | H.T. Chen and Dian Dong | For outstanding service to the community in NYC and NY State | http://chendancecenter.org/ht-chen-dancers/artist-bios/dian-dong | ||
| 2005 | Special Achievement/Citations | Janet Clancy | For her outstanding technical support for dance artists | |||
| 2005 | Performer | Jennifer Nugent | David Dorfman/ Lightbulb Theory | The Joyce | https://movementresearch.org/people/jennifer-nugent | |
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Jérôme Bel | The show must go on | DTW | http://www.jeromebel.fr/ | |
| 2005 | Composer | Jonathan Bepler | John Jasperse/ California | BAM | https://soundcloud.com/jonathanbepler | |
| 2005 | Performer | June Omura | Body of Work/ Mark Morris Dance Group | |||
| 2005 | Visual Designer | Ken Tabachnik | Sustained Achievement in lighting design for the Stephen Petronio Company | |||
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Meredith Monk | Sustained Achievement in her 40th Anniversary Season | http://www.meredithmonk.org/about/bio.html | ||
| 2005 | Visual Designer | Michael Levine | For set design for James Kudelka's The Contract | BAM | http://www.michaellevinestudio.com/work | |
| 2005 | Performer | Molly Hickok | Body of Work/ Big Dance Theater | http://www.bigdancetheater.org/founders-directors/ | ||
| 2005 | Time Out New York Audience Award | Neil Greenberg | Partial View | DTW | http://www.neilgreenberg.org/ | |
| 2005 | Performer | Okwui Okpokwasili | Ralph Lemon/ Come home Charley Patton | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okwui_Okpokwasili | |
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Ralph Lemon | The Geography Trilogy | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lemon | |
| 2005 | Choreographer/Creator | Tere O'Connor | Frozen Mommy | The Kitchen | http://tereoconnordance.org/ | |
| 2004 | Performer | Arcell Cabuag | Ronald K. Brown/ Concert | https://www.evidencedance.com/arcell-cabuag | ||
| 2004 | Lighting Designer | Brendan Gray | Ronald K. Brown/ Body of Work | The Joyce | http://www.graymattervisual.com | |
| 2004 | Performer | Christine McMillan | Body of Work/ Ben Munisteri | |||
| 2004 | Visual Designer | Christophe Draeger | Miguel Gutierrez/ dAMNATION rOAD | The Kitchen | http://www.christophdraeger.com/ | |
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | Deborah Hay | The Match | Danspace Project | http://www.deborahhay.com/ | |
| 2004 | Performance Installation and New Media | Deborah Warner | The Angel Project | Lincoln Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Warner | |
| 2004 | Visual Designer | Douglas Stein | Body of Work with Susan Marshall | |||
| 2004 | Performer | Holley Farmer | Sustained/ Merce Cunningham | |||
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion | Both Sitting Duet | The Kitchen | http://www.jonathanburrows.info | |
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | Justin Bond & Kenny Mellman | Kiki & Herb | |||
| 2004 | Lighting Designer | Kathy Kaufmann | Body of Work 2003-2004 | https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/kaufmann-kathy.html | ||
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | Kenneth King | Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_King_(dancer) | ||
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | Koosil-Ja Hwang | Mech(A)/ Body Of Work | http://www.koosiljadancekumiko.com/ | ||
| 2004 | Performer | Lisa Viola | Sustained/ Paul Taylor | |||
| 2004 | Special Achievement/Citations | Liz Berger | For Her Government Advocacy | |||
| 2004 | Special Achievement/Citations | Mark Russell | For His Artistic Vision at P.S. 122 | https://www.pcah.us/people/mark_russell | ||
| 2004 | Special Achievement/Citations | Mary Anthony | For Her Inspirational Teaching | http://maryanthonydance.tripod.com/ | ||
| 2004 | Performer | Megumi Eda | Karole Armitage/ Time Is the Echo… | The Joyce | https://www.megumieda.com/ | |
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | Ohad Naharin | Anaphasa | Lincoln Center Festival | https://batsheva.co.il/en/about?open=ohas_naharin | |
| 2004 | Composer | Philip Hamilton | Body of Work | |||
| 2004 | Time Out New York Audience Award | Saba Dance Theater | The Four Seasons | Chernuchin Theatre | ||
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | Sasha Pepelyaev & Peeter Jalakas | The Swan Lake | DTW | ||
| 2004 | Performer | Scott Shepherd | Wooster Group/ Poor Theater | Performing Garage | http://thewoostergroup.org/blog/tag/scott-shepherd/ | |
| 2004 | Choreographer/Creator | William Forsythe | Sustained Achievement with Ballett Frankfurt | https://www.dresdenfrankfurtdancecompany.com/en/about/associated-artists/william-forsythe/ | ||
| 2003 | Visual Designer | Bill Morrison, Laurie Olinder, Fred Tietz, Howard Thies | Ridge Theater/ Jennie Richee | Arts @ St. Ann’s | ||
| 2003 | Composer | Brooks Williams | Noemie Lafrance/ Descent | Clocktower | https://www.brookswilliams.com/ | |
| 2003 | Performer | Christine Dakin | Martha Graham/ Sustained | http://www.christinedakin.com/ | ||
| 2003 | Composer | Craig Harris | Brown Butterfly | Aaron Davis Hall | http://craigsharris.com/biography/ | |
| 2003 | Composer | David Kean | DD Dorvillier/ Dressed for Floating | Danspace Project | https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/37230/biography | |
| 2003 | Choreographer/Creator | DD Dorvillier | Dressed for Floating | Danspace Project | https://www.humanfuturedancecorps.org/homepage | |
| 2003 | Performer | Diedre Dawkins | Ronald K. Brown/ Walkin Out The Dark | The Joyce | http://www.diedredawkins.com/ | |
| 2003 | Performer | Germaul Yusef Barnes | Sustained/ Bill T. Jones | http://www.viewsicdance.com/ | ||
| 2003 | Visual Designer | Holger Forterer | Angelin Preljocaj/ Helikopter | BAM | http://www.foerterer.com/indexe.htm | |
| 2003 | Lighting Designer | John Collins | Elevator Repair Service/ Room Tone | P.S. 122 | https://www.elevator.org/press_items/john-collins-accidents-will-happen/ | |
| 2003 | Performance Installation and New Media | Marina Abramovic | The House with the Ocean View | Sean Kelly Gallery | https://mai.art/ | |
| 2003 | Choreographer/Creator | Noemie Lafrance | Descent | Clocktower | http://sensproduction.org/noemie-lafrance | |
| 2003 | Lighting Designer | Owen Hughes | RoseAnne Spradlin/ Underworld | Squid | https://www.charcoalblue.com/practice/people/owen-hughes | |
| 2003 | Choreographer/Creator | Penny Arcade | Sustained Achievement | http://pennyarcade.tv/biography/ | ||
| 2003 | Performer | Robert Swinston | Sustained/ Cunningham | http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.cndc.fr/site/&prev=search | ||
| 2003 | Choreographer/Creator | RoseAnne Spradlin | Underworld | Squid | http://www.roseannespradlin.com/ | |
| 2003 | Special Achievement/Citations | Sally Banes | Master Chronicler | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Banes | ||
| 2003 | Choreographer/Creator | Sarah Michelson | Shadowmann | The Kitchen & P.S. 122 | https://movementresearch.org/people/sarah-michelson | |
| 2003 | Performer | Scott Heron | Body of Work/ Jennifer Miller, Cathy Weis, Etc. | http://www.scottheron.org/ | ||
| 2003 | Special Achievement/Citations | Sylvia Waters | Ailey II | https://www.alvinailey.org/alvin-ailey-american-dance-theater/sylvia-waters | ||
| 2003 | Time Out New York Audience Award | Troika Ranch | Future of Memory | Duke | http://troikaranch.org/ | |
| 2003 | Choreographer/Creator | Vicky Shick & Barbara Kilpatrick | Body of Work/ Undoing | DTW | ||
| 2003 | Performer | Walter Dundervill, Athena Molloy & Tasha Taylor | Roseanne Spradlin/ Underworld | Squid | ||
| 2003 | Choreographer/Creator | Yasuko Yokoshi | Shuffle | P.S. 122 | https://www.creative-capital.org/projects/view/146 | |
| 2002 | Lighting Designer | Axel Morgenthaler | O Vertigo/ Luna & Marie Chouinard | The Joyce | https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/press/kits/corporate/cirque-du-soleil/creators/morgenthaler-axel.aspx | |
| 2002 | Special Achievement/Citations | Beverly D’Anne | Director, Dance Program, NY State Council on the Arts | |||
| 2002 | Choreographer/Creator | Big Dance Theater/ Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar | Sustained Achievement | http://www.bigdancetheater.org/founders-directors/ | ||
| 2002 | Performer | Carolyn Hall | Jordan Fuchs/ Allyson Green/ Shannon Hummel/ Karl Anderson | https://movementresearch.org/people/carolyn-hall | ||
| 2002 | Performer | Dominique Mercy | Pina Bausch/ Masurca Fogo & Sustained Achievement | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Mercy | |
| 2002 | Choreographer/Creator | Donna Uchizono | Low | DTW @ The Duke | http://www.donnauchizono.org/ | |
| 2002 | Composer | Guy Yarden | Donna Uchizono/ Low | DTW @ The Duke | https://movementresearch.org/people/guy-yarden | |
| 2002 | Visual Designer | Jan Versweyveld | A.T. De Keersmaeker / Drumming | BAM | http://www.rosas.be/en/productions/355-drumming | |
| 2002 | Performer | Karen Graham | David Gordon & The Pick Up Co/ Sustained Achievement | |||
| 2002 | Performer | Kate Valk | The Wooster Group | Arts @ St. Ann’s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Valk | |
| 2002 | Special Achievement/Citations | Madeleine Nichols | Dance Curator, Performing Arts Collection, NY Public Library | http://www.atdf.org/bios/nicholsbio.html | ||
| 2002 | Performer | Marta Coronado | A.T. de Keersmaeker/ Drumming | BAM | ||
| 2002 | Visual Designer | Matthias Bringman | John Jasperse/ Giant Empty | BAM | http://www.matthias-bringmann.de/ | |
| 2002 | Visual Designer | Melanie Rozema & Jeroen Teunissen | The Bang Group/ Bound Edition | Danspace Project | ||
| 2002 | Performer | Miguel Gutierrez, Parker Lutz, Juliette Mapp | John Jasperse | |||
| 2002 | Composer | Mike Iveson | Sarah Michelson/ Group Experience | P.S. 122 | http://www.mikeiveson.com/ | |
| 2002 | Performer | Nina Watt | Limon Dance Company/ Sustained Achievement | |||
| 2002 | Choreographer/Creator | Ohad Naharin | Naharin’s Virus | BAM | https://batsheva.co.il/en/about?open=ohas_naharin | |
| 2002 | Performer | Paul Matteson | David Dorfman & Lisa Race/ Body Of Work | |||
| 2002 | Choreographer/Creator | Pina Bausch | Sustained Achievement | BAM | http://www.pina-bausch.de/en/ | |
| 2002 | Choreographer/Creator | Sarah Michelson | Group Experience | P.S. 122 | https://movementresearch.org/people/sarah-michelson | |
| 2002 | Special Achievement/Citations | Theodore Striggles | Ffor the Poor Dancer’s Almanac and Extraordinary Service to the Field | http://www.striggles.com/ | ||
| 2002 | Performance Installation and New Media | Ward Shelly, Jesse Bercowetz & Team | Mir 2 | Smack Mellon | http://smackmellon.org/index.php/exhibitions/past/mir2/ | |
| 2002 | Choreographer/Creator | Wooster Group | To You the Birdie | Arts @ St. Ann’s | http://thewoostergroup.org/blog/ | |
| 2002 | Choreographer/Creator | Yasmeen Godder | I Feel Funny Today | DTW @ The Duke | http://www.yasmeengodder.com/ | |
| 2001 | Performance Installation and New Media | Adrian Piper | Body of Work | The New Museum, The Art/Life Institute | http://www.adrianpiper.com/biography.shtml | |
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | Bebe Miller | Verge | 651 Arts | http://bebemillercompany.org/ | |
| 2001 | Visual Designer | Bernard Lagacé | PPS Danse/ Bagne | The Joyce | http://www.bernardlagace.com/ | |
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | Bill T. Jones & Bjorn Amelan | The Breathing Show & The Table Project | Lincoln Center, Aaron Davis Hall | ||
| 2001 | Performer | Buffy Miller | Eliot Feld/ Clave & Ion | The Joyce | ||
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | Catherine Turocy (New York Baroque) | Sustained Achievement | https://nybaroquedance.org/people/directors/catherine-turocy/ | ||
| 2001 | Composer | Cynthia Hopkins | Big Dance Theater/ Another Telepathic Thing | DTW, Performing Garage | http://cynthiahopkins.com/ | |
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | Dan Hurlin & Guy Klucevsek | Everyday Uses for Sight #7 | The Kitchen | http://danhurlin.com/performance_work/recent/index.html | |
| 2001 | Composer | Darrin Ross | Rennie Harris/ Rome & Jewels | The Joyce | https://www.discogs.com/artist/82645-Darrin-Ross | |
| 2001 | Lighting Designer | David Ferri | Sustained/ Doug Varone & Julie Tolentino | https://prezi.com/lbsu7il7xfg8/david-ferri-lighting-designer/ | ||
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | David Gordon | Family$Death@Art.COMedy | Danspace Project | http://davidgordon.nyc/ | |
| 2001 | Performer | David Thomson | Sustained Achievement | http://davidhamiltonthomson.com/wordpress/main/ | ||
| 2001 | Special Achievement/Citations | David Vaughan | For His Work as an Author and Archivist of the Cunningham Co | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vaughan_(dance_archivist) | ||
| 2001 | Special Achievement/Citations | Dennis Diamond | For Video Documentation and Collaboration | |||
| 2001 | Composer | Hahn Rowe | Bebe Miller/ Verge | 651 Arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahn_Rowe | |
| 2001 | Performer | Jodi Melnick | Sustained/ Rudner, Shick, O’Connor Tharp, Rethorst, etc. | http://www.jodimelnickdance.org/ | ||
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | John Jasperse | Body of Work | http://johnjasperse.org/ | ||
| 2001 | Special Achievement/Citations | Katherine Dunham | For Her Life’s Work as a Dancer, Anthropologist and Activist | http://kdcah.org/katherine-dunham-biography/ | ||
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | Lucinda Childs | Sustained Achievement | http://www.lucindachilds.com/ | ||
| 2001 | Lighting Designer | Michael Mazzola & Scott Pask (Set) | Bebe Miller/ Verge | 651 Arts | ||
| 2001 | Performer | Nancy Bannon | Sustained/ Doug Varone | https://www.nancybannon.com/bio/ | ||
| 2001 | Performer | Patrick Corbin | Sustained/ Paul Taylor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Corbin_(dancer) | ||
| 2001 | Choreographer/Creator | Rennie Harris | Rome & Jewels | The Joyce Theater | http://rennieharrisrhaw.org/ | |
| 2001 | Lighting Designer | Rick Murray | Wally Cardona/ Trance Territory | The Joyce | ||
| 2001 | Performer | Rodney Mason | Rennie Harris/ Rome & Jewels | The Joyce | ||
| 2001 | Performer | Soledad Barrios | Noche Flamenco | http://www.soledadbarrioandnocheflamenca.com/ | ||
| 2001 | Performer | Stephanie Tooman | Sustained/ Reggie Wilson | |||
| 2000 | Visual Designer | Atsushi Kitagawara | Jiri Kylian/ One Of A Kind | https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.kitagawara.co.jp/&prev=search | ||
| 2000 | Performer | Carmen De Lavallade | Sustained Achievement | http://www.carmendelavallade.com/ | ||
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | David Rousseve | Love Songs | BAM | https://www.davidrousseve.com/ | |
| 2000 | Performer | Francie Huber | Sustained Achievement/ Paul Taylor Dance Company | |||
| 2000 | Special Achievement/Citations | Francis Mason | Reporter, Writer, Editor, Radio Reviewer | |||
| 2000 | Performer | Greg Zuccolo | Sustained Achievement/ Tere O'Connor | |||
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Gus Solomons jr | Sustained Achievement/ Paradigm | http://solomons-says.com/ | ||
| 2000 | Performer | Gwen Welliver | Sustained Achievement/ Doug Varone | https://movementresearch.org/people/gwen-welliver | ||
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Herbin "Tamango" Van Cayseele | Urban Tap | The Kitchen | https://www.cayseele.com/ | |
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Inbal Pinto | Wrapped | The Kitchen | http://www.inbalpinto.com/ | |
| 2000 | Special Achievement/Citations | International Association of Blacks in Dance | For Service to the Field | https://www.iabdassociation.org/ | ||
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Marie Chouinard | Les Solos 1978-1998 | The Joyce | https://www.mariechouinard.com/2018-604.html | |
| 2000 | Visual Designer | Matayo Wunmi Olaiya | Body of Work/ Ron Brown/ Marlies Yearby | The Kitchen | ||
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Merian Soto | Sustained Achievement/ Asi Se Baila un Son | Flea | http://www.meriansoto.com/ | |
| 2000 | Special Achievement/Citations | Micki Wesson | For Personal Commitment to the Field | |||
| 2000 | Visual Designer | Nadia Lauro | Jennifer Lacey/ Shot | Lincoln Center Festival/ NYS Theater | http://www.nadialauro.com/ | |
| 2000 | Visual Designer | Paul Kaiser, Shelly Eshkar, Suzanne Gallo, Aaron Copp | Merce Cunningham/ Biped | https://mercecunningham.org/blog/paul-kaiser-on-biped/ | ||
| 2000 | Performer | Peter Boal | Sustained Achievement/ Molissa Fenley | DTW | https://www.pnb.org/the-artists/artistic-director/ | |
| 2000 | Composer | Robert Een | Sustained Achievement | DTW & P.S. 122 | http://www.roberteen.com/ | |
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Sarah East Johnson | Lava Love | http://www.lavabrooklyn.org/ | ||
| 2000 | Performance Installation and New Media | Seiji Shimoda | Japanese Performance Art Festival | Japan Society | ||
| 2000 | Performer | Stacy Dawson | Big Dance Theater/ Another Telepathic Thing | http://www.impulseintoaction.com/ | ||
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Stephan Koplowitz | Sustained Achievement | https://www.skoplowitz.com/ | ||
| 2000 | Composer | Straylight (Jason Finkelman, Charles Cohen, Geoff Gersh) | Cynthia Oliver/ Shemad | https://joemcphee.bandcamp.com/album/straylight | ||
| 2000 | Choreographer/Creator | Yvonne Rainer | Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rainer | ||
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Sustained Achievement/ Fase | The Kitchen | http://www.rosas.be/en/8-anne-teresa-de-keersmaeker | |
| 1999 | Visual Designer | Casper Stracke & Benton Bainbridge | Koosil-Ja Hwang/ Memoryscan | The Kitchen | ||
| 1999 | Performer | Dana Caspersen | William Forsythe/ Eidos: Telos | BAM | http://danacaspersen.com/about/ | |
| 1999 | Composer | David Lang | Susan Marshall/ The Most Dangerous Room… | BAM | https://davidlangmusic.com/ | |
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Dean Moss | Spooky Action at a Distance | The Kitchen | http://gametophyte.org/gametophyte/Welcome.html | |
| 1999 | Composer | Hannibal Lokumbe | Dianne McIntyre/ Love Poems To God | 651 Arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lokumbe | |
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Headlong Dance Theater (David Brick, Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith) | St*R W*Rs and Other Stories | DTW | http://headlong.org/ | |
| 1999 | Composer | James Lo | Donna Uchizono/ State Of Heads | DTW | ||
| 1999 | Performer | Jim May | Sustained/ Anna Sokolow | https://sokolowtheatredance.org/bios/ | ||
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Joe Goode | Deeply There (Stories of a Neighborhood) | Danspace Project | http://joegoode.org/ | |
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Mary Overlie | Small Dance/ Locations of Love | Danspace Project | https://sixviewpoints.com/maryoverlie/ | |
| 1999 | Performer | Paige Martin | Neil Greenberg/ This Is What Happened | P.S. 122 | https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/paige-martin/ | |
| 1999 | Composer | Phillip Johnston | Keely Garfield/ Minor Repairs Necessary | DTW | https://phillipjohnston.com/ | |
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Ping Chong & Muna Tseng | Slutforart | Playhouse 91 | http://www.pingchong.org/interdisciplinary-performance/production-archive/slutforart/ | |
| 1999 | Performer | Rachel Lynch-John | Keely Garfield/ Minor Repairs Necessary | DTW | ||
| 1999 | Performance Installation and New Media | Red Dive (Maureen Brennan, Catharine Dill Peggy Peloquin, N. Bonnie Reese, Dana Salisbury, Ashley Smith) | Inhabited 1998 | Tenement Museum | ||
| 1999 | Lighting Designer | Robert Wierzel | Bill T. Jones/ We Set Out Early, Goldhuber & Latsky/ Worst Case Scenario, Bill T. Jones & Jessye Norman/ How Do We Do | BAM, P.S. 122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wierzel | |
| 1999 | Performer | Roxanne Butterfly (Samedini) | Jazz Tap Ensemble/ Love For Sale | The Joyce | http://roxanebutterfly.com/en/ | |
| 1999 | Performer | Sharon Skepple | Garth Fagan/ Concert | The Joyce | ||
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Steve Paxton | Ash | Danspace Project | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Paxton | |
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | Tere O'Connor | Sustained Achievement/ Hi Everybody | The Kitchen | http://tereoconnordance.org/ | |
| 1999 | Special Achievement/Citations | The Point Community Development Corporation/ Paul Lipson, Stephen Sapp, Mildred Ruiz | https://thepoint.org/history/ | |||
| 1999 | Choreographer/Creator | William Forsythe, Stephen Galloway, Naoki Takizawa | Eidos: Telos | BAM | http://levyarchive.bam.org/Detail/occurrences/2810 | |
| 1999 | Visual Designer | Wooster Group Team (James J.J. Johnson, John Collins, Jim Findlay, Philip Bussman, Jennifer Tipton, and Elizabeth Jenyon) | House/ Lights | Performing Garage | http://thewoostergroup.org/house-lights | |
| 1998 | Performance Installation and New Media | B Team (Zesty Meyers, Evan Snyderman, Thor Bueno, Kelly Lamb & Jeff Zimmerman) | Spontaneous Combustion 2 | Urban Glass | ||
| 1998 | Special Achievement/Citations | Beate Gordon | Gowanus Arts Exchange/ Marya Warshaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Sirota_Gordon | ||
| 1998 | Special Achievement/Citations | Carla Maxwell | For Sustaining The Limon Company | http://limon.org/about-us/leadership/ | ||
| 1998 | Performance Installation and New Media | Charles Atlas | Martha | Martha @ Mother | ||
| 1998 | Lighting Designer | David Covey | Merce Cunningham/ BAM Event | BAM | https://dance.osu.edu/people/covey.1 | |
| 1998 | Choreographer/Creator | David Neumann | It's Gonna Rain | DTW | https://www.advancedbeginnergroup.org/ | |
| 1998 | Choreographer/Creator | Doug Varone | Sustained Achievement | http://www.dougvaroneanddancers.org/ | ||
| 1998 | Choreographer/Creator | Douglas Dunn | Sustained Achievement | http://www.douglasdunndance.com/ | ||
| 1998 | Performer | Eddie Taketa | Sustained/ Doug Varone | https://dance.osu.edu/people/taketa.1 | ||
| 1998 | Choreographer/Creator | Elizabeth Streb | Fly/ Body of Work | The Joyce | http://streb.org/ | |
| 1998 | Special Achievement/Citations | Ellie Covan | Women/ Living Legends -- Mikki Sheppard, Laura Greer & Stephanie Hughley | http://dixonplace.org/about-us/mission/ | ||
| 1998 | Composer | Fellaheen (Roderick Hohl, Megan Spooner, Patrick Fondiller & Robert Bonhomme) | David Neumann/ Duck, You Sucker | DTW | ||
| 1998 | Performer | Hope Boykin | Philadanco/ Dance Women Living Legends | Aaron Davis Hall & 651 Arts | https://www.hopeboykindance.com/bio/ | |
| 1998 | Performer | Hope Clark | Sustained Achievement/ Elizabeth Streb/ Ringside | |||
| 1998 | Performer | Jamie Martinez | Sustained/ David Parsons & Mark Dendy | |||
| 1998 | Choreographer/Creator | Jane Comfort | Underground River | P.S. 122 | http://janecomfortandcompany.org/ | |
| 1998 | Lighting Designer | Jeff Fontaine | Eiko & Koma/ River | BAM | ||
| 1998 | Performer | Lawrence Keigwin | Mark Dendy/ Dream Analysis | The Joyce | http://www.keigwinandcompany.com/larry-keigwin/ | |
| 1998 | Composer | Mark Bennett, Robert Een, Robert Black, Aska Kaneko & Hiroshi Yoshino | Yoshiko Chuma/ Unfinished Symphony | Danspace Project | ||
| 1998 | Choreographer/Creator | Mia Lawrence, Douglas Henderson, Guy Yarden & Danielle Epstein | Kriyas | P.S. 122 | ||
| 1998 | Visual Designer | Michael Casselli/ Bill Ballou | Streb/ Ringside - Truss | The Joyce | ||
| 1998 | Visual Designer | Nari Ward | Ralph Lemon/ Geography | BAM | http://www.nariwardstudio.com/ | |
| 1998 | Performer | Pedro Ruiz | Sustained Achievement/ Ballet Hispanico | https://www.thewindowsproject.org/pedro-ruiz | ||
| 1998 | Choreographer/Creator | Ronald K. Brown | Better Days: First Time Thru | The Joyce Theater | https://www.evidencedance.com/ronald-k-brown | |
| 1998 | Composer | Somei Satoh & Kronos | Eiko & Koma/River | BAM | http://www.lovely.com/bios/satoh.html | |
| 1997 | Composer | Amy Denio | David Dorfman/ Skydown | http://www.amydenio.com/ | ||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Angelin Preljocaj | Annonciation | http://www.preljocaj.org/menu.php?lang=en&m=1&a=1 | ||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Basil Twist | The Araneidae Show | http://www.basiltwist.com/index.php | ||
| 1997 | Composer | David Tudor (Posthumous) | Sustained/ Cunningham | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tudor | ||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Dianne McIntyre & Olu Dara | A Brand New People on the Planet | |||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Doug Elkins | The Stuff of Recoiling & Center My Heart | http://dougelkinschoreography.com/ | ||
| 1997 | Performer | Gerald Casel | Sustained/ Stephen Petronio, Zvi Gotheiner, Stanley Love | http://www.geraldcasel.com/ | ||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Jennifer Monson | Sender/ Collective Work | |||
| 1997 | Performer | Julie Bour & Claudia De Smet | Preljocaj/ Annonciation | http://www.preljocaj.org/menu.php?lang=en&m=1&a=4&m2=7 | ||
| 1997 | Visual Designer | Kasia Walicka-Maimone | Susan Marshall & Philip Glass/ Les Enfants Terribles | http://www.sumac.org/les-enfants-2/ | ||
| 1997 | Performer | Kimberly Bartosik | Sustained/ Cunningham | https://www.daela.org/ | ||
| 1997 | Special Achievement/Citations | Leo Janks | For Excellence in Stage Managing | |||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Lucy Guerin | Two Lies | http://www.lucyguerininc.com/ | ||
| 1997 | Lighting Designer | Margie Medlin | Lucy Guerin/ Two Lies | https://unsited.org/ | ||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Mark Dendy | Collective Work | http://dendydonovanprojects.com/ | ||
| 1997 | Performer | Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble: Carlos Arevalo, Theo Bleckmann, Thomas Bogdan, Janis Brenner, Allison Easter, Dina Emerson, Katie Geissinger, Ching Gonzalez, Stephen Kalm & Randall Wong | The Politics of Quiet | http://www.meredithmonk.org/media/opera.html | ||
| 1997 | Special Achievement/Citations | Mikhail Baryshnikov/ White Oak Dance Project | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Oak_Dance_Project | |||
| 1997 | Lighting Designer | Philip Sandstrom | David Dorfman/ Skydown | |||
| 1997 | Special Achievement/Citations | Richard Move & Janet Stapleton | For Martha @ Mother | |||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Sham Mosher, Ronald K. Gray & David Pleasant | Hybridium | |||
| 1997 | Performer | Sheri Williams | DCDC/ Dwight Rhoden/ Growth | |||
| 1997 | Choreographer/Creator | Susan Marshall & Philip Glass | Les Enfants Terribles | http://www.sumac.org/les-enfants-2/ | ||
| 1997 | Performer | Tom Thayer | Sustained/ David Dorfman | |||
| 1997 | Composer | Zeena Parkins | Jennifer Monson/ Sender | http://www.zeenaparkins.com/ | ||
| 1996 | Performer | Baakari Wilder | Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk | https://www.baakariwilder.com/ | ||
| 1996 | Lighting Designer | Brian Mac Devitt | Sustained Achievement/ Tere O'Connor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_MacDevitt | ||
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Cathy Weis | Fractured: Just The Fracts, Ma'am | DTW | http://www.cathyweis.org/works/works/fractured/ | |
| 1996 | Performer | Chrysa Parkinson | Sustained Achievement/ Tere O'Connor | |||
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Compagnie Azanie | A la Vue d'un Seul Oeil | BAM, 651 Arts | ||
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Culture Clash | Radio Mambo | Intar | https://www.cultureclashtheatre.com/ | |
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Cynthia Oliver | Death's Door | P.S. 122 | https://www.cynthiaoliver.com/ | |
| 1996 | Special Achievements/Citations | Dancers Responding To Aids (Matthew Bruffee, Hernando Cortez & Denise Roberts) | ||||
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | David Dorfman | Familiar Movements | DTW | http://www.daviddorfmandance.org/ | |
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Diamanda Galas | Sustained Achievement | http://diamandagalas.com/ | ||
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Everett Dance Theatre | Body of Work | DTW | ||
| 1996 | Lighting Designer | Howell Binkley | Sustained Achievement/ Parsons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howell_Binkley | ||
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Jeff Weiss/ Carlos Ricardo Martinez | Sustained Achievement | |||
| 1996 | Composer | Junior "Gabu" Wedderburn | Sustained Achievement/ UBW, M'zawa Danz, Ancient Vibrations | |||
| 1996 | Performer | Larry Hahn | Sustained Achievement/ Doug Varone et al | |||
| 1996 | Visual Designer | Ming Cho Lee | Cloud Gate/Nine Songs | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Cho_Lee | |
| 1996 | Performer | Odile Reine-Adelaide | Sustained Achievement/ Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane | |||
| 1996 | Visual Designer | Ralph Lee | Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lee | ||
| 1996 | Composer | Richard Einhorn | Season/ Dove, Parson, Joan Of Arc | https://www.richardeinhorn.com/ | ||
| 1996 | Special Achievements/Citations | Robert Browning & The World Music Institute | https://www.robertbrowningassociates.com/ | |||
| 1996 | Choreographer/Creator | Savion Glover, Reg E. Gaines & George C. Wolfe | Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk | Public Theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_in_%27da_Noise,_Bring_in_%27da_Funk | |
| 1996 | Performer | Sondra Loring | Sustained Achievement/ David Rousseve, Neil Greenberg, et al | |||
| 1996 | Performer | Susan Moran | Sustained Achievement/ Doug Elkins Dance Co. | |||
| 1995 | Lighting Designer | David Fritz & Carol Mullins | Stefa Zawerucha/ Curve Ahead | DTW | ||
| 1995 | Visual Designer | Elliot Caplan | Merce Cunningham / Beach Birds for Camera | Whitney Museum at Philip Morris | http://picturestartfilms.com/bio.php | |
| 1995 | Performer | Frederic Gafner | Merce Cunningham/ Season | New York City Center | http://www.foofwa.com/en/ | |
| 1995 | Visual Designer | Gretchen Bender | Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company/ Still Here | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_Bender | |
| 1995 | Composer | Guy Klucevsek | David Dorfman/ Hey | The Joyce | http://www.guyklucevsek.com/ | |
| 1995 | Performer | Jamie Bishton | Twyla Tharp/ White Oak/ Sustained Achievement | http://jamiebishtondance.com/whoweare.html | ||
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | Janie Geiser | Evidence of Floods | DTW | http://www.janiegeiser.com/ | |
| 1995 | Special Achievement/Citations | Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo | For Let the Artists Live! At Exit Art | |||
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | Jennifer Miller | Circus Amok | NYC Parks | http://www.circusamok.org/about-us/jennifer-miller-2/ | |
| 1995 | Performer | Kristen Borg | Stephen Petronio/ Sustained Achievement | |||
| 1995 | Performer | Lawrence Goldhuber | Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company/ Sustained Achievement | http://www.bigmanarts.com/ | ||
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | Lisa Jones & Alva Rogers | Stained | Aaron Davis Hall | ||
| 1995 | Performer | Lisa Race | David Dorfman/ Season | The Joyce | ||
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | Mary Ellen Strom & Cast | School's Out: The Naming Project | DTW | https://www.maryellenstrom.com/ | |
| 1995 | Special Achievement/Citations | Melvin Davis | For His Work at the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Lee_Davis | ||
| 1995 | Lighting Designer | Michael Stiller | Neil Greenberg/ Not-About-Aids-Dance | The Kitchen | http://michaelstiller.com/ | |
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | Neil Greenberg | Not-About-Aids -Dance | The Kitchen | http://www.neilgreenberg.org | |
| 1995 | Composer | Philip Glass | Sustained Achievement | http://philipglass.com/ | ||
| 1995 | Composer | Raul Jaurena NY-Buenos Aires Connection | Irene Hultman/ Tango-Babe | Danspace Project | http://www.rauljaurena.com/projects.html | |
| 1995 | Performer | Renee Redding-Jones | Ronald K. Brown/ Dirt Road | DTW | ||
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | Reza Abdoh (Posthumously) | Sustained Achievement | http://archives.nypl.org/uploads/collection/pdf_finding_aid/theabdoh.pdf | ||
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | Simone Forti | Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Forti | ||
| 1995 | Special Achievement/Citations | Tina Ramirez | For Ballet Hispanico (25th Anniversary) | https://www.ballethispanico.org/about/history | ||
| 1995 | Choreographer/Creator | William Douglas/ Jose Navas | Solo for Jose | Danspace Project | ||
| 1995 | Composer | Ysaye Barnwell | Liz Lerman/ Safe House | The Joyce | https://www.ymbarnwell.com/ | |
| 1993 | Performance Installation and New Media | Alyson Pou | To Us at Twilight | Artists Space | http://www.alysonpou.com/ | |
| 1993 | Composer | Arthur Russell | Sustained Achievement/ Special Posthumous Citation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Russell_(musician) | ||
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | Beverly Blossom | Sustained Achievement | http://www.beverlyblossom.org/bio.html | ||
| 1993 | Visual Designer | Bill Morrison | John Moran & Ridge Theater/ Every Day Newt Burman (The Trilogy Of Cyclic Existence) | La MaMa, E.T.C. | ||
| 1993 | Visual Designer | Bloolips/ Ivan/ Gretal Feather/ David Kavanagh | Get Hur | DTW | ||
| 1993 | Composer | Christopher Hyams-Hart | Doug Varone/ Momentary Order | Ohio Theater | ||
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | David Cale/ Roy Nathanson | Deep in a Dream of You | Knitting Factory & Public Theater | ||
| 1993 | Special Achievements/Citations | Dona Ann McAdams | For Archival Photography at P.S. 122 and Elsewhere | http://www.donaannmcadams.com/ | ||
| 1993 | Performer | Eileen Thomas | Susan Marshall/ Sustained Achievement | http://www.eileenthomas.net/bio/ | ||
| 1993 | Performer | Everett Quinton | Georg Osterman/ Brother Truckers | Charles Ludlam Theater | http://www.everettquinton.net/biography | |
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | Idris Ackamoor & Rhodessa Jones | Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women | La MaMa, E.T.C. | http://www.culturalodyssey.org/ | |
| 1993 | Composer | James Lo | John Jasperse/ Furnished/ Unfurnished | Danspace Project | ||
| 1993 | Special Achievements/Citations | Joan Duddy | For Dance Program at Dia Center for the Arts | |||
| 1993 | Visual Designer | Kyle Chepulis | Mac Wellman/ Land of Fog and Whistles | Whitney Museum at Philip Morris | ||
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | Laurie Carlos | White Chocolate | P.S. 122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Carlos | |
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | Mary Ellen Strom | Witness | DTW | https://mountaintimearts.org/mary-ellen-strom/ | |
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | Merce Cunningham | Enter | New York City Center | https://www.mercecunningham.org | |
| 1993 | Performer | Mimi Goese | John Moran & Ridge Theater/ Every Day Newt Burman (The Trilogy Of Cyclic Existence) | La MaMa, E.T.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Goese | |
| 1993 | Performer | Nikki Castro | Bebe Miller/ Donna Uchizono/ Sustained Achievement | |||
| 1993 | Performer | Niles Ford | Pepon Osorio & Merian Soto/ Historias | DTW | ||
| 1993 | Lighting Designer | Robert Wierzel | Bill T. Jones/ Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wierzel | ||
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | Sally Silvers | Small Room | P.S. 122, Movement Research, Symphony Space | https://www.sallysilversdance.com/ | |
| 1993 | Performer | Sam Weber | Jazz Tap Ensemble/ Sustained Achievement | http://samweber.org/ | ||
| 1993 | Composer | Tan Dun | Yoshiko Chuma/ Jo Ha Kyu | Danspace Project | http://tandun.com/ | |
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | The Five Lesbian Brothers: Maureen Angelos/ Babs Davy/ Dominique Dibbell/ Peg Healey/ Lisa Kron | Collective Work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Lesbian_Brothers | ||
| 1993 | Choreographer/Creator | Yvonne Meier | The Shining | P.S. 122 | https://movementresearch.org/people/yvonne-meier | |
| 1992 | Composer | Carl Riley | Urban Bush Women/ Praise House | BAM | ||
| 1992 | Special Achievement/Citations | Chuck Davis and Danceafrica | ||||
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | Craig Harris and Sekou Sundiata | Saturday Concert of The Fire Wall Festival | P.S. 122 | ||
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | Donald Byrd | The Minstrel Show | DTW | https://spectrumdance.org/about/donald-byrd/ | |
| 1992 | Visual Designer | Donna Dennis | Dan Hurlin/ Quintland (The Musical) | DTW | http://www.donnadennisart.com/ | |
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | Frank Conversano | Collective Work | http://www.frankconversano.com | ||
| 1992 | Visual Designer | Gabriel Berry | Donald Byrd/ The Minstrel Show, Molissa Fenley/ Place | DTW, The Joyce | https://atlantictheater.org/playevents/cloudnine/gabriel-berry/ | |
| 1992 | Special Achievement/Citations | Howard Moody & Judson Memorial Church | http://classic.judson.org/Howard-Moody-Obituary | |||
| 1992 | Performer | Kim Y. Bears | Philadanco | https://www.uarts.edu/users/kbearsbailey | ||
| 1992 | Composer | Leroy Jenkins | Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company/ The Mother of Three Sons | New York City Opera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leroy_Jenkins_(jazz_musician) | |
| 1992 | Performance Installation and New Media | Linda Montano | 7 Years of Living Art | New Museum | https://www.lindamontano.com/ | |
| 1992 | Performer | Linda Montano | New Museum | http://www.lindamontano.com | ||
| 1992 | Performer | Mark Robison | Elizabeth Streb | |||
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | Marta Renzi | Vital Signs | Danspace Project | http://martarenzi.blogspot.com/ | |
| 1992 | Visual Designer | Martin Puryear | Garth Fagan/ Griot/ New York | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Puryear | |
| 1992 | Lighting Designer | Michael Mazzola | Bebe Miller/ Jonathan Stone/ Bill Young/ Irene Hultman/ Yoshiko Chuma/ Randy Warshaw | http://www.michaelmazzola.com/ | ||
| 1992 | Performer | Natalie Rogers | Garth Fagan/ Griot/ New York | BAM | https://www.garthfagandance.org/principal-dancers | |
| 1992 | Special Achievement/Citations | Nuyorican Poets Café: Miguel Algarin, Willie Correa, Lois Griffith, Bob Holman, Roland Legiardi-Laura | https://www.eventbrite.com/o/nuyorican-poets-cafe-17401146295 | |||
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | Ping Chong | Collective Work | http://www.pingchong.org/ | ||
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | Pomo Afro Homos: Bernard Djola Branner/ Brian Freeman/ Eric Gupton | Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life | DTW & Joseph Papp Public Theater | ||
| 1992 | Composer | Robert Mirabal | Eiko & Koma/ Land | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mirabal | |
| 1992 | Performer | Scot Willingham | Stephanie Skura & Martha Bowers | |||
| 1992 | Performer | Steve Mellor | Mac Wellman/7 Blowjobs | SoHo Rep | ||
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | The Rhythm Technicians & Rock Steady Crew | Collective Work | |||
| 1992 | Choreographer/Creator | Urban Bush Women | Collective Work | https://www.urbanbushwomen.org/ | ||
| 1992 | Performer | Viola Sheely | Urban Bush Women/ Praise House; Laurie Carlos/ Vanquished By Voodoo | BAM | ||
| 1991 | Choreographer/Creator | Alice Farley | Body of Work | http://alicefarleydancetheater.com/ | ||
| 1991 | Visual Designer | Anthony Chase | John Kelly (Film)/ Sustained Achievement | |||
| 1991 | Special Achievements/Citations | Carlos Gutierrez-Solana | For NYSCA Visual Arts Program | http://cintasfoundation.org/fellows/visual-artists/336-carlos-gutierrez-de-la-solana | ||
| 1991 | Performer | Chris Komar | Merce Cunningham Sustained Achievement | |||
| 1991 | Choreographer/Creator | Dan Froot | 17 Kilos of Garlic | Downtown Art/ La MaMa, E.T.C. | http://danfroot.com/ | |
| 1991 | Choreographer/Creator | David Gordon | The Mysteries and What's So Funny | Serious Fun/ Lincoln Center | http://davidgordon.nyc/works/1990/mysteries-whats-so-funny-0 | |
| 1991 | Performance Installation and New Media | David Hammons | Retrospective/ Body Of Work | P.S. 122 | https://www.moma.org/artists/2486 | |
| 1991 | Performer | David Neumann | Doug Elkins Dance Co. | https://www.advancedbeginnergroup.org/home/ | ||
| 1991 | Performer | Desmond Richardson | Alvin Ailey | New York City Center | http://www.complexionsdance.org/desmond-richardson | |
| 1991 | Visual Designer | Huck Snyder | John Kelly/ Love of a Poet/ Maybe It's Cold Outside, Bill T. Jones /Last Supper | BMB, BAM | http://visualaids.org/artists/detail/huck-snyder | |
| 1991 | Performance Installation and New Media | James Luna | Take a Picture of an Indian | The Whitney Downtown | http://www.jamesluna.red/artwork/ | |
| 1991 | Performer | James Luna | The Whitney Downtown | http://www.jamesluna.red/ | ||
| 1991 | Performer | Jeremy Nelson | Stephen Petronio / Sustained Achievement | http://www.jeremynelsondance.org/Jeremy_Nelson_Dance/Home.html | ||
| 1991 | Composer | Julius Hemphill | Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company/ Last Supper, Long Tongues | BAM, Apollo Theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Hemphill | |
| 1991 | Performer | Kyle DeCamp | Dancenoise/ Richard Foreman/ John Kelly/ Kumiko Kimoto | http://www.kyledecamp.com/ | ||
| 1991 | Choreographer/Creator | Lora Nelson/ Paul Clay/ Cydney Wilkes | Window on the Nether Sea | Downtown Art | ||
| 1991 | Visual Designer | Mimi Gross | Douglas Dunn (Sets/Costume)/ Sustained Achievement | http://www.mimigross.com/ | ||
| 1991 | Choreographer/Creator | Music and Dance of Sumatra | Festival of Indonesia | The Joyce | ||
| 1991 | Special Achievements/Citations | Nancy Duncan | For CoDanceCo | http://www.codanceco.org/aboutus.htm | ||
| 1991 | Choreographer/Creator | Paul Zaloom | My Civilization | DTW | http://zaloom.com/ | |
| 1991 | Performer | Paula Gifford | Elizabeth Streb | The Kitchen | ||
| 1991 | Composer | Pauline Oliveros | Susan Marshall/ Contenders | BAM | http://paulineoliveros.us/about.html | |
| 1991 | Choreographer/Creator | Richard Elovich | Someone Else from Queens Is Queer | P.S. 122 | ||
| 1991 | Visual Designer | Sue Reese | Creach And Koester/Running | Danspace Project | ||
| 1991 | Composer | Tom Cora | Donna Uchizono/ San Andreas | The Kitchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cora | |
| 1991 | Yuriko | For Martha Graham Reconstruction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriko_(dancer) | |||
| 1990 | Composer | A. Leroy and Mimi Goese | Wendy Perron/ Last Forever | The Kitchen | ||
| 1990 | Special Achievement/Citations | Annabelle Gamson | For Reconstruction of Dances of Isadora Duncan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle_Gamson | ||
| 1990 | Performer | Arthur Armijo | Susan Marshall | |||
| 1990 | Special Achievement/Citations | Beate Gordon | For Work with Asia Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Sirota_Gordon | ||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Eiko & Koma | Passage | The Joyce | http://www.eikoandkoma.org/home | |
| 1990 | Performer | Gail Turner | Collective Work of Meredith Monk | |||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Garth Fagan | Sustained Achievement | The Kitchen | https://www.garthfagandance.org/ | |
| 1990 | Composer | Hans Peter Kuhn | Dana Reitz et al / Suspect Terrain | Pepsico Summerfare | http://hanspeterkuhn.com/ | |
| 1990 | Performer | Jonathan Riseling | The Jamison Project/ Tease | The Joyce | ||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Karen Finley | We Keep Our Victims Ready | The Kitchen | http://karenfinley.com/ | |
| 1990 | Visual Designer | Liz Prince | Collective Work | |||
| 1990 | Performer | Louise Smith | Ping Chong/ Brightness | La MaMa, E.T.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Smith_(theatre_artist) | |
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Margarita Guergué and Hahn Rowe | We Were Never There | The Kitchen | ||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Mark Morris | Dido and Aeneas | BAM | http://markmorrisdancegroup.org/the-dance-group/works/Opera/dido-and-aeneas | |
| 1990 | Special Achievement/Citations | Martha Wilson | For Work as Founder of Franklin Furnace | http://www.marthawilson.com/ | ||
| 1990 | Visual Designer | Matthew Yokobowsky | Ping Chong/Brightness | La MaMa, E.T.C. | https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/author/yokoboskym/ | |
| 1990 | Composer | Max Roach | Collective Work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach | ||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Pat Oleszko | Sustained Achievement | https://www.patoleszko.com/ | ||
| 1990 | Performer | Penny Hutchinson | Mark Morris | |||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Robbie McCauley | Sally's Rape | BACA Downtown | http://robbiemccauleyncompany.com/portfolio/sallys-rape/ | |
| 1990 | Lighting Designer | Roma Flowers | Laurie Carlos/ Linda Mancini/ and Others | https://finearts.tcu.edu/faculty_staff/roma-flowers/ | ||
| 1990 | Lighting Designer | Susanne Poulin | Cydney Wilkes/ Susan Brown | Mulberry Street Theater | ||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Ulysses Dove | Episodes | New York City Center | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Dove | |
| 1990 | Performer | Victoria Finlayson | Merce Cunningham | |||
| 1990 | Choreographer/Creator | Wim Vandekeybus | Les Porteuses de Mauvaises Nouvelles | The Kitchen | https://www.ultimavez.com/ | |
| 1989 | Visual Designer | Annette Zindel | Nina Martin/ Changing Face, Sarah Skaggs/ Fear of Standing Upright | |||
| 1989 | Performer | Arthur Aviles | Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Aviles | ||
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | Bill T. Jones | D-Man in the Waters | The Joyce | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_T._Jones | |
| 1989 | Performer | Christopher Batenhorst | Tere O'Connor | |||
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | Dancenoise | All the Rage | P.S. 122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancenoise | |
| 1989 | Lighting Designer | Dave Feldman | Michael Moschen/ In Motion | BAM | http://www.feldmandesigns.com/home | |
| 1989 | Lighting Designer | David Moodey | Molissa Fenley/ State of Darkness | The Kitchen | http://www.davidmoodey.com/ | |
| 1989 | Performer | Diane Madden | Trisha Brown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Madden | ||
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | Dianne Mcintyre | In Living Color | The Triplex | http://www.diannemcintyre.com/ | |
| 1989 | Special Achievement/Citations | Ellie Covan | For Dixon Place Dance | http://dixonplace.org/about-us/staff-and-board/ | ||
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | Guillermo Gomez-Pena | Border Brujo | DTW | http://www.pochanostra.com/#Scene_1 | |
| 1989 | Performer | Harry Whittaker Sheppard | Yoshiko Chuma/ SOHK | |||
| 1989 | Lighting Designer | Howard Thies | Collective Work | La MaMa, E.T.C. | ||
| 1989 | Composer | Jacob Burckhardt | Collective Work | |||
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | John Malpede and Kevin Williams/ LAPD | LPAD Inspects America | Creative Time/ El Museo del Barrio | https://www.lapovertydept.org/ | |
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | John O'Keefe | Shimmer | P.S. 122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Keefe_(playwright) | |
| 1989 | Performer | Laurie Carlos | Urban Bush Women/ Thought Music/ Heat | The Kitchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Carlos | |
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | Linda Mancini | Concert | Home | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Mancini | |
| 1989 | Special Achievement/Citations | Lori E. Seid | For Stage Managing | https://movementresearch.org/people/lori-e-seid | ||
| 1989 | Lighting Designer | Mark Lancaster | Merce Cunningham/ Five Stone Wind | New York City Center | https://mercecunningham.org/index.cfm/choreography/dancedetail/params/work_ID/140/ | |
| 1989 | Composer | Mieczyslaw Litwinski | Ohad Naharin/ Safe Tradition | DTW | ||
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | Molisa Fenley | State of Darkness | The Kitchen | http://molissafenley.com/ | |
| 1989 | Choreographer/Creator | Ralf Ralf | The Summit | DTW | ||
| 1989 | Performer | Susan Blankensop | Douglas Dunn/ Bill Young/ Collective Work | |||
| 1988 | Special Achievement/Citations | Act Up | http://www.actupny.org/ | |||
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | Ann Carlson | Animals | DTW | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Carlson | |
| 1988 | Performance Installation and New Media | Ann Hamilton | The Earth Never Gets Flat | Whitney Museum at Philip Morris | http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/ | |
| 1988 | Special Achievement/Citations | Bessie Schonberg | Lifetime Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Schonberg | ||
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | Bill Irwin | Largely/ New York | New York City Center | http://thebillirwin.com/theater-largelynewyork.html | |
| 1988 | Composer | Blue Gene Tyranny | Sustained Acheivement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Tyranny | ||
| 1988 | Lighting Designer | Carol Mullins | Anne Bogart/ Cinderella/ Cendrillon | St. Clements | ||
| 1988 | Lighting Designer | David Ferri | Doug Varone/ Straits & Body Of Work | P.S. 122 | https://dance.vassar.edu/bios/daferri.html | |
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | Elizabeth Streb | Body of Work | http://streb.org/elizabeth-streb/ | ||
| 1988 | Composer | James Baker | Tere O'Connor/ Heaven Up North | Danspace Project | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baker_(composer) | |
| 1988 | Visual Designer | Janie Geiser | The Talking Band/ The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol | Theater for the New City | http://www.janiegeiser.com/ | |
| 1988 | Composer | Jeff Halpern | Music Dir-Anne Bogart/ Cinderella/Cendrillon, Vocal Dir-Martha Clarke/ Miracolo d'Amore, Music Dir-John Kelly/ Find My Way Home | St. Clements, Public Theater, DTW | ||
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | John Kelly | Find My Way Home | DTW | http://johnkellyperformance.org/wp2/ | |
| 1988 | Performer | Joseph Lennon | Karole Armitage/ Merce Cunningham/ Randy Warshaw | |||
| 1988 | Performer | Kate Johnson | Paul Taylor/ Sustained Achievement/ Eliot Feld/ Hannah Kahn/ Rosalind Newman | |||
| 1988 | Performer | Keith Sabado | Mark Morris | |||
| 1988 | Performer | Lance Gries | Trisha Brown | https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/lance-gries-the-fifty-project-part-1-lances-essay | ||
| 1988 | Performer | Norwood Pennewell | Garth Fagan | https://www.garthfagandance.org/principal-dancers | ||
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | Otrabanda Co. | Brain Cafe | La MaMa, E.T.C. | ||
| 1988 | Performer | Ron Vawter | The Wooster Group/ Sustained Achievement | http://thewoostergroup.org/company | ||
| 1988 | Lighting Designer | Stan Pressner | John Kelly/ Find My Way Home | DTW | http://themakingroom.org/stan-pressner | |
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | Tere O'Connor | Heaven Up North | Danspace Project | http://tereoconnordance.org/ | |
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | William Forsythe | Artifact/ Behind The China Dogs/ Steptext | Pepsico, NY State Theater, New York City Center | https://www.williamforsythe.com/williamforsythe.html | |
| 1988 | Choreographer/Creator | Wim Vandekeybus/ Maximalist! (Thierry de Mey & Peter Vermeersch) | What the Body Does Not Remember | The Kitchen | ||
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Rosas Danst Rosas | BAM | https://www.rosas.be/en/8-anne-teresa-de-keersmaeker | |
| 1987 | Special Achievements/Citations | Charles Atlas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Atlas_(artist) | |||
| 1987 | Visual Designer | Charles Atlas/ Bodymap/ Leigh Bowery | Michael Clark/ No Fire Escape in Hell | BAM | ||
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | Dana Reitz/ Jennifer Tipton | Circumstantial Evidence | The Kitchen | http://welcometolace.org/lace/dana-reitz-circumstantial-evidence/ | |
| 1987 | Performer | Donald Fleming | Collective Work | https://www.iamexpat.nl/member/donald-fleming | ||
| 1987 | Composer | Edwina Lee Tyler | Jawole Willa Jo Zollar/ Life Dance | The Kitchen | http://edwinatyler.com/ | |
| 1987 | Special Achievements/Citations | Ellen Stewart | For La MaMa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Stewart | ||
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | Ethyl Eichelberger | Collective Work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl_Eichelberger | ||
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | Karen Finley | The Constant State of Desire | The Kitchen | http://karenfinley.com/ | |
| 1987 | Performer | Lisa Nelson | Steve Paxton/Part/Ongoing | The Kitchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nelson | |
| 1987 | Performer | Meg Eginton | Stephen Petronio | |||
| 1987 | Performer | Nicky Paraiso | Collective Work | |||
| 1987 | Lighting Designer | Philip Sandstrom | Mark Morris Season Manhattan Ctr/ City Center | BAM | https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/the-dance-group/about/designers/Lighting-Design/Philip-Sandstrom | |
| 1987 | Visual Designer | Pierre Hebert | Rosalind Newman/ The Technology Of Tears | The Joyce | http://pierrehebert.com/en/cinema/independent-films/the-technology-of-tears/ | |
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | Ralph Lemon/ Bebe Miller | Two | DTW | ||
| 1987 | Lighting Designer | Remon Fromont | Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker/ Rosas Danst Rosas | BAM | https://www.rosas.be/en/productions/378-rosas-danst-rosas | |
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | Robert Wilson/ David Byrne/ Suzushi Hanayagi | The Knee Plays | Alice Tully Hall | https://kneeplays.com/ | |
| 1987 | Performer | Shelley Washington | Twyla Tharp/ Sustained Achievement | |||
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | Steve Paxton | Collective Work/ Part/ Goldberg Variations | The Kitchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Paxton | |
| 1987 | Choreographer/Creator | The Adaptors | The Bed Experiment One | BACA Downtown | http://www.margolisbrownadaptors.org/productions/productions_bed_experiment.htm | |
| 1986 | Performer | Amy Pivar | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company | The Joyce | http://www.amypivar.com/ | |
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | Bebe Miller | Spending Time Doing Things/Gypsy Pie | P.S. 122 | http://bebemillercompany.org/works/ | |
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane | Freedom of Information | The Joyce | https://newyorklivearts.org/btj-az-company/past-repertory/ | |
| 1986 | Lighting Designer | Blu | Sustained Achievement | |||
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | David Cale | The Redthroats | P.S. 122 | ||
| 1986 | Composer | David Linton | Stephen Petronio/ Walk-In, Dias de Fuego y Muerte | DTW | ||
| 1986 | Composer | David Van Tieghem | Collective Work | http://www.vantieghem.com/ | ||
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | Edouard Lock | Human Sex | DTW | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Lock | |
| 1986 | Special Achievements/Citations | Ellen Robbins | For Teaching Children | http://ellenrobbinsdance.com/about/about-ellen-robbins/ | ||
| 1986 | Performer | Erin Thompson | Nina Wiener | BAM | ||
| 1986 | Visual Artist | Eva Buchmuller | Squat Theater/ Dreamland | The Kitchen | http://squattheatre.com/group1 | |
| 1986 | Lighting Designer | Gary Mintz | Molissa Fenley/ Esperanto | The Joyce | ||
| 1986 | Performer | Guillermo Resto | Susan Marshall/ Mark Morris | DTW | ||
| 1986 | Performer | Jeannie Hutchins | Ping Chong | La MaMa, E.T.C. | http://www.pingchong.org/interdisciplinary-performance/production-archive/i-will-not-be-sad-in-this-world/ | |
| 1986 | Visual Artist | Joe Fyfe/ Laurie Hawkinson/ Kristin Jones & Andrew Ginzel/ Ricardo Scofidio & Elizabeth Diller/ Kit-Yin Snyder/Allan Wexler/ Elyn Zimmerman & George Palumbo | Memory Theater of Giulio Camillo | Creative Time/ Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage | http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/1986/Memory/memory.htm | |
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | John Bernd | Lost & Found (Scenes From a Life) | Danspace Project | ||
| 1986 | Special Achievements/Citations | John Cage and Merce Cunningham | https://mercecunningham.org/blog/the-john-cage-and-merce-cunningham-studio/ | |||
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | John Kelly | Collective Work | http://johnkellyperformance.org/wp2/ | ||
| 1986 | Collaborative Achievement | Laura Dean/ Steve Reich | Impact/Force Field | http://lauradean.com/danceandmusic.html | ||
| 1986 | Special Achievements/Citations | Louise Roberts | For Clark Center | http://clarkcenternyc.org/579528/louise-roberts/ | ||
| 1986 | Performer | Mary Shultz | Jeff Weiss/ Dan Hurlin | |||
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | Molissa Fenley | Cenotaph | The Joyce | http://molissafenley.com/ | |
| 1986 | Lighting Designer | Philip Sandstrom | Philip Sandstrom | DTW | https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/the-dance-group/about/designers/Lighting-Design/Philip-Sandstrom | |
| 1986 | Visual Artist | Roy Faudree | No Theater/Last Resort | Performing Garage | ||
| 1986 | Choreographer/Creator | Stephen Petronio | Walk-In | DTW | http://petron.io/ | |
| 1986 | Visual Artist | Terry Allen | Margaret Jenkins/ Pedal Steal | BAM | http://www.terryallenartmusic.com/ | |
| 1986 | Collaborative Achievement | Trisha Brown/ Beverly Emmons/ Nancy Graves/ Peter Zummo | Lateral Pass | New York City Center | http://www.trishabrowncompany.org/repertory/lateral-pass.html | |
| 1985 | Lighting Designer | Carol McDowell | John Bernd/ Be Good to Me | P.S. 122 | ||
| 1985 | Special Achievement/Citations | Cornelius Conboy and Dennis Gratta | For 8BC | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8BC | ||
| 1985 | Choreographer/Creator | Cydney Wilkes | 16 Falls in Color & Searching for Girl | DTW, Ethnic Folk Arts Center | ||
| 1985 | Composer | Dadu Tucci | Ismael Ivo/ Ritual of a Body in a Moon | La MaMa, E.T.C. | ||
| 1985 | Collaborative Achievement | Dana Reitz/Jim Turrell | Severe Clear | Radcliffe College | http://archive.jamesturrell.com/artwork/severe-clear/ | |
| 1985 | Composer | David Linton | Karole Armitage/ A Simpleton's Guide To The Universe | DTW | http://signalculture.org/david-linton.html#.WysEaadKjIU | |
| 1985 | Special Achievement/Citations | Deborah Jowitt | For Her Dance Criticism | http://www.deborahjowitt.com/ | ||
| 1985 | Performer | Frederike Bedard | Edouard Lock/ Businessman in the Process of Becoming an Angel | DTW | ||
| 1985 | Visual Designer | Huck Snyder | John Kelly/Go West Junger Mann/ Diary Of A Somnambulist | P.S. 122, Limbo Theater | http://johnkellyperformance.org/wp2/performances/go-west-junger-mann-1984/ | |
| 1985 | Choreographer/Creator | Johanna Boyce | Johanna Boyce with the Calf Women & Horse Men | DTW | ||
| 1985 | Choreographer/Creator | John Jesurun | Chang in a Void Moon | Pyramid Club Bottom Line | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jesurun | |
| 1985 | Choreographer/Creator | Judith Ren-Lay | The Grandfather Tapes | Franklin Furnace | http://www.mindspring.com/~ren-lay/index.html | |
| 1985 | Visual Designer | Liliana Villegas | Chokyoo-Hyun/Aga | La MaMa, E.T.C. | ||
| 1985 | Performer | Louise Lecavalier | Edouard Lock/ Businessman in the Process of Becoming an Angel | DTW | https://louiselecavalier.com/ | |
| 1985 | Performer | Meredith Monk | 20th Year | http://www.meredithmonk.org/ | ||
| 1985 | Special Achievement/Citations | Meredith Monk | 20th Year | http://www.meredithmonk.org/ | ||
| 1985 | Special Achievement/Citations | National Endowment for the Arts Dance Program Directors Ruth Mayleas, June Arey, Don Anderson, Joe Krakora, Rhoda Grauer, Suzanne Weil, Nigel Redden | https://www.arts.gov/artistic-fields/dance | |||
| 1985 | Visual Designer | Pepon Osorio | Merian Soto/ Cocinando | P.S. 1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep%C3%B3n_Osorio | |
| 1985 | Composer | Peter Gordon | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company/ Secret Pastures & Falso Movimento | BAM, La MaMa, E.T.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gordon_(composer) | |
| 1985 | Visual Designer | Renata Petroni | Eric Barsness | The Kitchen | ||
| 1985 | Special Achievement/Citations | Robert Ellis Dunn | https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/mrpj-14-the-legacy-of-robert-ellis-dunn-1928-1996-excerpt-from-robert-dunns-journal-writings-in-lieu-of-editors-note | |||
| 1985 | Performance Installation and New Media | Robert Longo | Marble Fog | Brooklyn Museum | http://www.robertlongo.com/ | |
| 1985 | Performer | Robert Longo | Brooklyn Museum | http://www.robertlongo.com/ | ||
| 1985 | Performer | Sean Curran | Jones/Zane/Secret Pastures | BAM | http://www.seancurrancompany.com/bios.php | |
| 1985 | Choreographer/Creator | Susan Marshall | Concert | DTW | http://www.sumac.org/ | |
| 1985 | Choreographer/Creator | Susan Rethorst | Son of Famous Men | P.S. 122 | https://susanrethorst.com/ | |
| 1985 | Performer | Teri Weksler | Sustained Achievement | https://www.asfa.k12.al.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=411117&type=u | ||
| 1985 | Special Achievement/Citations | The Wooster Group | Sustained Achievement | http://thewoostergroup.org/blog/ | ||
| 1985 | Lighting Designer | Tony Giovannetti | Meredith Monk/ Sustained Achievement | http://www.gregblonder.com/solarscapes/giovannettiResume.htm | ||
| 1985 | Special Achievement/Citations | Val Bourne & The London Dance Umbrella | http://www.danceumbrella.co.uk/ | |||
| 1985 | Performer | Vicky Shick | Trisha Brown/ Sustained Achievement | https://movementresearch.org/people/vicky-shick | ||
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Anne Bogart | South Pacific | NYU Experimental Theatear Wing | http://siti.org/blogs/anne-bogart | |
| 1984 | Composer | Anthony Davis | Molissa Fenley/Hempshires | BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Davis_(composer) | |
| 1984 | Lighting Designer | Beverly Emmons | Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Emmons | ||
| 1984 | Lighting Designer | Carol Mulins | Body of Work | Danspace Project | ||
| 1984 | Performer | Chuck Greene | Sweet Saturday Night (Special Citation) | BAM | ||
| 1984 | Special Achievement/Citations | David Gordon | Framework/ The Photographer/ Sustained Achievement | DTW, BAM | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gordon_(choreographer) | |
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Eiko & Koma | Grain/Night Tide | DTW | http://www.eikoandkoma.org/ | |
| 1984 | Film & TV/Choreographer | Frank Moore & Jim Self | Beehive | https://www.jimboself.com/about | ||
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Fred Holland/Ishmael Houston Jones | Cowboys, Dreams, and Ladders | The Kitchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_Houston-Jones | |
| 1984 | Lighting Designer | Jennifer Tipton | Sustained Achievement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tipton | ||
| 1984 | Performer | John McLaughlin | Douglas Dunn/ Diane Frank/ Deborah Riley | http://www.douglasdunndance.com/about/ | ||
| 1984 | Visual Designer | Judy Pfaff | Nina Wiener/Wind Devil | http://www.judypfaffstudio.com/ | ||
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Julia Heyward | No Local Stops | Ohio Space | https://frieze.com/article/julia-heyward | |
| 1984 | Composer | Lenny Pickett | Stephen Pertronio/Adrift (With Clifford Arnell) | Danspace Project | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Pickett | |
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | mark morris | Season | DTW | https://markmorrisdancegroup.org/ | |
| 1984 | Film & TV/Choreographer | Nancy Mason Hauser & Susan Dowling | Dance Television Workshop at WGBH-TV | http://90.146.8.18/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=9299 | ||
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Nina Wiener | Wind Devil | BAM | http://archives.nypl.org/dan/18549 | |
| 1984 | Performer | Pina Bausch and the Wuppertaler Tanztheatre | 1980 (Special Citation) | BAM | http://www.pina-bausch.de/en/ | |
| 1984 | Visual Designer | Power Boothe | Charles Moulton/ Variety Show; David Gordon/ Framework | DTW, The Joyce | https://www.giampietrogallery.com/powerbootheinfo | |
| 1984 | Performer | Rob Besserer | Lar Lubovitch and Others | http://new.lubovitch.org/ | ||
| 1984 | Performer | Sara Rudner | Twyla Tharp | https://www.dance-enthusiast.com/features/view/Twyla-Tharp-Sara-Rudner | ||
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Stephanie Skura | It's Either Now or Later/Art Business | DTW, P.S. 122 | http://www.stephanieskura.com/ | |
| 1984 | Performer | Steven Humphrey | Garth Fagan | https://www.garthfagandance.org/principal-dancers | ||
| 1984 | Special Achievement/Citations | Studies Project of Movement Research, Inc./ Mary Overlie, Wendell Beavers, Renee Rockoff | http://old.movementresearch.org/aboutus/MR%20Timeline-FNL.pdf | |||
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Timothy Buckley | Barn Fever | The Kitchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Buckley | |
| 1984 | Special Achievement/Citations | Trisha Brown | Set and Reset/ Sustained Achievement | BAM | http://www.trishabrowncompany.org/repertory/set-and-reset.html?ctx=title | |
| 1984 | Performer | Valda Setterfield | David Gordon | http://davidgordon.nyc/valda-setterfield | ||
| 1984 | Choreographer/Creator | Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks | Collective Work | http://www.yoshikochuma.org/ |