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Bessie Winners: David Gordon and Julius Hemphill were among the 29 winners of a Bessie Award given out Friday in New York City. Gordon’s work, “The Mysteries and What’s So Funny,” and Hemphill’s music in Bill T. Jones’ “Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land” were cited in categories ranging from performance to composing to visual design. The Bessies, contemporary dance and performance’s most prestigious honor, are named after Bessie Schonberg, a composer and professor emeritus at Sarah Lawrence College.