Eva Yaa Asantewaa (2017 Bessie Award winner for Outstanding Service to the Field of Dance) is a writer, curator and community educator. Since 1976, she has contributed writing on dance to Dance Magazine, The Village Voice, SoHo Weekly News, Gay City News, The Dance Enthusiast, Time Out New York and other publications and interviewed dance artists a…

This episode of The Bessies Podcast Series, we interview Larissa Velez-Jackson - choreographer and hybrid artist who uses improvisation as a main tool for research and creation, focusing on personhood and the dancing/sound-making body. www.larissavelez.comMusic by: Yackez - an art pop/multimedia collaboration of Larissa and Jon Velez-Jackson, aka T…

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the recipient of the 2017 Bessie for Lifetime Achievement. Thank you Jawole!Music by: Dorian Wallacewww.dorianwallace.comThis was an excerpt of "We Are Anonymous", movement 2 of Dorian Wallace's magnum opus "We Are Legion", about the hacktivist collective Anonymous, performed and recorded by Tenth Intervention.…