The Bessies: The New York Dance and Performance Awards of 2023 pulled out all the stops Friday, Aug. 4 to honor outstanding work in dance.
Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox!pulled out all the stops Friday, Aug. 4, to honor outstanding work in dance at its annual ceremony in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park on a pleasant summer evening where the stars on stage shone as bright as the ones in the sky.
As the ceremony got underway, the first to be applauded was Virginia Johnson, founding member and recently retired DTH artistic director,who received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement in Dance. Dancer, singer, and actor Dionne Figgins recalled how, when she was an aspiring young Black ballerina, the reaffirming image of Johnson in DTH’s “Creole Giselle” at Washington, D.C.
Then, in July 2023, after decades of steering DTH through troubled waters and protecting Mitchell’s legacy while securing her own, Johnson recently officially stepped down, passing the torch to Robert Garland, former DTH dancer and resident choreographer.
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