New York Dance and Performance Award – is one of the most prestigious awards one can receive in the world of dance. These awards were given out from 1984-2008 by the Dance Theater Workshop, and starting in 2009 by Dance/NYC to choreographers or dancers who receive "outstanding artistic achievement in the field of contemporary dance performance". Awards New York State Governor's Award for the Arts (1989) National Endowment for the Arts selected her as the first recipient for the Teacher/Mentor Fellowship award for lifetime achievement (1993) Erine Award (1994) Schonberg was slated to receive the American Dance Festival's Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching but died before she was able to receive it. References External links Archive footage from an interview at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 1986 where Bessie Schonberg speaks about how to look at dance 1906 births 1997 deaths German female dancers American choreographers Bennington College alumni Sarah Lawrence College faculty Juilliard School faculty Tisch School of the Arts faculty German emigrants to the United States