Doron Perk photo credit: Basil Roderick
ASSEMBLY Photo Credit Stephanie Berger for Rashaad Newsome Studio
Leslie Cuyjet photo credit: Ahad Subzwari
Outstanding Choreographer/Creator:
Kyle Abraham
An Untitled Love
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Sidra Bell
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala at David H. Koch Theater
Camille A. Brown
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
The Metropolitan Opera
Leslie Cuyjet
Blur
Open Call at The Shed
Indigenous Enterprise
Indigenous Liberation
The Joyce Theater
Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Deep Blue Sea
Park Avenue Armory
Rashaad Newsome
Assembly
Park Avenue Armory
Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born
On the way, undone
Crossing the Line Festival 2021 at Weeksville Heritage Center
Eiko Otake
The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable
NYU Skirball
Anna Sperber
Bow Echo
presented by XØ Projects Inc and The Old American Can Factory
Raúl Tamez
On Limón Dance Company
Migrant Mother
The Joyce Theater
Sasha Waltz
In C
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Outstanding Revival:
A Jamaican Battyboy in America
Performed by Nikolai McKenzie Ben Rema
Original production in 1996 by Arthur Avilés, original title “A Puerto Rican Faggot from America”
Hemispheric Institute at NYU & BAAD!
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Performed by Mark Morris Dance Group
Original production in 1988 by Mark Morris
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Set and Reset/Reset
Performed by Candoco Dance Company
Original production in 1983 by Trisha Brown
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Treading
Performed by Martha Graham Dance Company
Original production in 1982 by Elisa Monte
The Joyce Theater
Outstanding Visual Design:
Elizabeth Diller – DS+R, Peter Nigrini, and Robert Wierzel
Visual Environment, Video Projection, and Lighting Design
Deep Blue Sea
By Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company
Park Avenue Armory
Indigenous Enterprise
Projection, Costume Design, and Lighting Design
Indigenous Liberation
By Indigenous Enterprise
The Joyce Theater
Andrew Jordan and Joe Levasseur
Costume Design and Lighting Design
Narcissus
By Christopher Williams
New York Live Arts
New Affiliates – Ivi Diamantopoulou, Jaffer Kolb, and Rashaad Newsome Studio with Truman T. Brown Jr.; Howie B., Kimberly Joneś, and Randy Rosenthal
Set Design and Costume Design
Assembly
By Rashaad Newsome
Park Avenue Armory
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Lifetime Achievement Award:
Nai-Ni Chen
Service to the Field of Dance Award:
Christine Jowers
Outstanding Performer:
Soledad Barrio
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
By Soledad Barrio
The Joyce Theater
Krudxs Cubensi
Black Healing Portal II: Más allá del tiempo / Beyond Time
Park Avenue Armory
Kayla Farrish
December 8th
By Kayla Farrish in collaboration with Belinda McGuire
The Eva Yaa Asantewaa Solo for Solo Showing
Gibney
Carla Forte, Ildiko Toth, Joanna Lesnierowska, Ermira Goro, Rosalynde LeBlanc, and Colleen Thomas
Light and Desire
By Colleen Thomas
New York Live Arts
Antonio Granjero
Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca
By Soledad Barrio
The Joyce Theater
Lloyd Knight
With Martha Graham Dance Company
Treading
By Elisa Monté
The Joyce Theater
zavé martohardjono
TERRITORY: The Island Remembers
By zavé martohardjono in collaboration with x, Ube Halaya, Raha Behnam, Marielys Burgos Meléndez, Julia Santoli, Katherine De La Cruz, Jordan Reed, Theresee Tull, Proteo Media + Performance, Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky and Maya Simone Z
Gibney
Nikolai McKenzie Ben Rema
A Jamaican Battyboy in America
By Arthur Avilés
Hemispheric Institute at NYU and BAAD!
Doron Perk
Grandfather Visit
By Doron Perk
Presented through LABA: Laboratory for Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y
Antonio Ramos
Puro Teatro
By luciana achugar
The Chocolate Factory Theater
Yesenia Selier
Cosmic Exu
Queer Hip Hop Cypher
Park Avenue Armory
Shannon Tyo
As “Afong Moy”
The Chinese Lady
By Lloyd Suh
Directed by Ralph B. Peña
The Barrington Stage Company and Ma-Yi Theater Company Production
The Public Theater
Outstanding Breakout Choreographer:
Flex Kingdom: Jabari Gooding, Obinnaya Williams, and Diamond DuBose
Sun Kim
Princess Lockerooo
Angie Pittman
Outstanding Sound Design or Musical Composition:
Marc Álvarez (arrangement)
Carmen
By Johan Inger
Performed by Compañia Nacional de Danza
The Joyce Theater
Donald Eaton, Jerome Hunter, Abdel R. Salaam, Kweku Sumbry, and K. Osei Williams
TERRESTRIAL WOMBS
By Abdel R. Salaam
Presented at DanceAfrica
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Efraín Rozas
Puro Teatro
By luciana achugar
The Chocolate Factory Theater
Kwami Winfield
STELLAR
Virtual Performance
By Kyle Marshall
Baryshnikov Arts Center