The Bite Magazine - Autumn/Winter 2022 - Issue 32

bitetheatre Ballet Black also collected awards for Best Soloist in a Dance Production, presented to Cincinnati-born dancer Cira Robinson and Best Use of Innovation and Technology, for its dance film Eightfold , based on the ancient Ogdoad (a group of eight deities), shown on Channel 4. The elegant- ly charming Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE, former Ar- tistic Director at The Place, Director at The Africa Centre, and soloist and choreographer at London Contemporary Dance Theatre, presented these awards. British stand-up comedian and television personality Ste- phen K. Amos entertained the audience with comedic jokes that amused us. He presented the Recognition Awards for Light and/or Sound to Kayodeine and Costume Design to Jessica Cabassa. Ghanaian-British actor Kobna Hold- brook-Smith accepted the Casting Director Recognition Award on behalf of Isabella Odoffin and presented the Book and Lyrics Recognition Award to composer Lux Knightley.