Outstanding Choreographer/Creator:
Camille A. Brown
I am
The Joyce Theater
Rennie Harris
Jacob’s Ladder
For Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
Akram Khan
GIGENIS
The Joyce Theater
Ralph Lemon and Darrell Jones
Low
MoMA PS 1
Lar Lubovitch
Many Angels
For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles
CATS:“The Jellicle Ball”
Perelman Performing Arts Center
Dianne McIntyre
In the Same Tongue
The Apollo Stages at The Victoria Theater
Fredrick Earl Mosley
Unleashed
Ailey Citigroup Theater
Yoko Murakami
BLINK
Triskelion Arts
TweetBoogie
The TweetBoogie Experience
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
Urban Bush Women
Scat! ..The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar
Perelman Performing Arts Center
Waacking Community (Curated by Princess Lockeroo)
Fabulous Waacking Festival Winter Edition
Imperial Ballroom Dance Studio
Outstanding Revival:
Big Bertha (1970)
Paul Taylor American Dance Company
The Joyce Theater
Grace (1999)
Ronald K. Brown
For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
Quartiers libres revisited (2012)
Nadia Beugré
New York Live Arts
Recuerdo de Campo Amor (1985)
Talley Beatty
For Ballet Hispanico
New York City Center
Outstanding Visual Design:
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
A Meal (Set, Film, Costume) for LEIMAY
Here Arts Center
Jill Sigman
Set Design
Re-Seeding (Encounter #4: The Seamstress), Jill Sigman
Out-FRONT! Festival at Judson Memorial Church
Clifton Taylor
Lighting
Many Angels for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
Cao Yuxi (JAMES)
Set Design
Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful, Kyle Abraham
Park Avenue Armory
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Outstanding Performer:
Khalia Campbell
High Life
Ronald K. Brown/Evidence
The Joyce Theater
Shaquelle Charles
In The Same Tongue, Dianne McIntyre Group
The Apollo Stages at The Victoria Theater
Jeffrey Cirio/Yue Shi
Ein von Viel, Sabrina Matthews for Boston Ballet
New York City Center
Jacquelin Harris
Many Angels
Lar Lubovitch for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York City Center
Demetia Hopkins
In The Same Tongue, Dianne McIntyre Group
The Apollo Stages at The Victoria Theater
Niall Jones
JohnsonJaxxxonJefferson, Niall Jones
Danspace Project
Joy-Marie Thompson
JOYBOY
Triskelion Arts
King Molasses
Untitled 8/2 (Live) – Kendrick Lamar, King Molasses
Bushwig
Jake Roxander
Onegin, John Cranko/American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center
Symara Sarai
I want it to rain inside, Symara Sarai
New York Live Arts
Cast of Cats
CATS:“The Jellicle Ball”, Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles
Perelman Performing Arts Center
House of Juicy + House of Telfar
Performance as a House, Draw inspiration from one of Alvin Ailey’s iconic dance pieces
The Whitney Museum
Outstanding Breakout Choreographer:
Wendell Gray II
Amy Hall Garner
Ishita Mili
Anh Vo
Outstanding Sound Design or Musical Composition:
Justin Ellington (sound designer)
I am, Camille A. Brown
The Joyce Theater
Angie Pittman (singing), Cody Jensen musical composition
Black Life Chord Changes
Out-Front! Festival at BAM Fisher Hillman Studio
Dave Price
GIGENIS, Akram Khan
The Joyce Theater
Mel Mercier (composer)
Begin Anywhere, John Scott
Irish Arts Center