Australian Dance Awards
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The Australian Dance Awards recognise excellence in dance in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, they are awarded under the auspice of the Australian Dance Council (Ausdance)
Australian Dance Council
The Australian Dance Council is a national dance advocacy organisation for dancers, choreographers, directors and educators. It has offices in the states and territory...

 for performance, choreography
Choreography
Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements in which motion, form, or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. The word choreography literally means "dance-writing" from the Greek words "χορεία" ...

, design, dance writing, teaching and related professions.

The awards date from 1997, first held in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, moving to Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 in 2008.

The Awards have their origin in the informal community Dancers' Picnic founded by Keith Bain first held in 1986 on or close to International Dance Day
International Dance Day
International Dance Day has been celebrated on April 29 through promotion by the International Dance Council , an umbrella organization within UNESCO for all kinds of dance....

.

2011

The 2011 Australian Dance Awards. Held at QPAC Playhouse, Brisbane. Hosted by Fenella Kernebone. Winners were:
Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime Achievement Award Robina Beard OAM
Services to Dance Education Valda Craig
Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance QL2 Dance Hard Yards
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Rafael Bonachela 6 Breaths Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company
The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group Ballet in a Nutshell by Suzanne Musitz , later changing its name to Athletes and Dancers, and Dance Company ...

Outstanding Performance by a Company Expressions Dance Company
Expressions Dance Company
Expressions Dance Company is an Australian contemporary dance company based in the The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, in Fortitude Valley. It was founded in 1984 by Maggi Sietsma, Artistic Director and Abel Valls, General Manager...

Where the Heart Is
Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance Narelle Benjamin In Glass
Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer Amy Hollingsworth Irony of Fate Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company
The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group Ballet in a Nutshell by Suzanne Musitz , later changing its name to Athletes and Dancers, and Dance Company ...

Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer Daniel Gaudiello Coppelia The Australian Ballet
Outstanding Performance in a Stage Musical Alinta Chidzey West Side Story
West Side Story
West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...

Hall of Fame Keith Bain OAM
Award for Services to Dance Ruth Osborne Artistic Director - QL2 Dance (Canberra)

2010

The 2010 Australian Dance Awards. Hosted by Neil Pigot
Neil Pigot
Neil Pigot is an Australian actor, best known to audiences as Inspector Falcon-Price on Blue Heelers.Pigot began his career in theatre, and after a long apprenticeship moved to guest starring roles in television shows such as The Games , The Secret Life of Us , Marshall Law and Stingers...

. Held at Melbourne’s Arts Centre, State Theatre. Winners were:
Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime Achievement Award Bill Akers AM
Services to Dance Stephen Page
Stephen Page
Born in Brisbane in 1965, Stephen Page is a descendant from the Nunukul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh tribe from southeast Queensland...

Services to Dance Education Maggi Phillips
Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance Restless Dance Theatre Hard Yards
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Meryl Tankard
Meryl Tankard
Meryl Tankard is an Australian dancer and choreographer who has a wide national and international reputation....

 & Paul White
The Oracle
Outstanding Performance by a Company Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Indigenous Australian contemporary dance company founded in 1989 by Carole Johnson, an African-American and founding director of National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association . Bangarra is the Wiradjuri word meaning "to make fire".Stephen Page has been the...

Fire - A Retrospective
Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance Sue Peacock Questions Without Notice
Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer Lana Jones Firebird The Australian Ballet
Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer Paul White The Oracle
Outstanding Performance in a Stage Musical Caroline O’Connor Chicago

2009

The 2009 Australian Dance Awards winners were:
Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime Achievement Lucette Aldous
Lucette Aldous
-Biography:Born in Auckland, New Zealand, she undertook her early training in Australia, and later at the Royal Ballet School. She returned to Australia in 1970, quickly rising to Resident Principal Dancer with the Australian Ballet....

Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Jeff Meiners
Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance Tracks Inc STRUCK Awarded for the first time in 2009
Outstanding Performance in a Stage Musical Nick Twiney, Rarmian Newton, Rhys Kosakowski, Lochlan Denholm, Joshua Waiss Gates, Dayton Tavares, Joshua Denyer & Michael Dameski Billy Elliot The Musical
Billy Elliot the Musical
Billy Elliot the Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Sir Elton John, and book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around motherless Billy, who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes...

Outstanding Performance by a Company Force Majeure The Age I'm In
Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance Tanja Liedtke
Tanja Liedtke
Tanja Liedtke was a German-born professional dancer. She was most noted as a dancer, choreographer and director of contemporary dance in Australia.- Biography :...

 (posthumous)
construct
Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer Kristina Chan construct choreographed by Tanja Liedtke
Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer Reed Luplau Sid's Waltzing Masquerade Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company
The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group Ballet in a Nutshell by Suzanne Musitz , later changing its name to Athletes and Dancers, and Dance Company ...

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Tanja Liedtke (posthumous) construct
Award for Dance on Film Chris Scherer If The Shoe Fits
If the Shoe Fits
If the Shoe Fits is the fourth studio album by American country rock band Pure Prairie League, released in 1976 .-Track listing:#"That'll Be the Day"...

Award for Services to Dance Lee Christofis A former dance critic and now curator of dance at the National Library of Australia

2008

The 2008 Australian Dance Awards were hosted by Michael Veitch
Michael Veitch
Michael Veitch is an Australian comedian, author and broadcaster, best known for his roles on the sketch comedy television shows The D-Generation, Fast Forward and Full Frontal, as well as for his books on Second World War aviation and the Bass Strait Islands.Veitch emerged from the tradition of...

. The winners were:
Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime Achievement Paul Hammond
Paul Hammond (ballet dancer)
Paul Clement Hammond OAM is a former Australian ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer.He was born in Sydney and started dancing at the age of 17.- Biography :...

 OAM
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Helen Cameron
Outstanding Performance in a Stage Musical Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters...

The Boy From Oz
The Boy from Oz
The Boy from Oz is a jukebox musical based on the life of singer/songwriter Peter Allen and featuring songs written by him. The book is by Nick Enright. The production had its world premiere, directed by Gale Edwards, at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, Australia, on 5 March 1998 and toured Brisbane,...

Choreographed by Kenny Ortega and Kelley Abbey
Kelley Abbey
Kelley Abbey is an Australian actress, choreographer, singer and dancer. She has been a leading performer and choreographer in TV, film and musical theatre for more than 20 years....

Outstanding Performance by a Company Lucy Guerin Inc Structure & Sadness Choreographed by Lucy Guerin
Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance Shaun Parker This Show Is About People Produced by Marguerite Pepper Productions
Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer Lucinda Dunn Don Quixote
Don Quixote (ballet)
Don Quixote is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the...

(The Australian Ballet)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer Paul White
Paul White
Paul White may refer to:*Paul Dudley White , cardiologist*Paul Frederick White, anaesthesiologist*Paul White , news director of CBS during WWII*Paul White , "Jungle Doctor"...

Honour Bound Choreographed by Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart has been the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre since 1999, following Meryl Tankard.Stewart studied at the Sydney City Ballet Academy and the Australian Ballet School...

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart has been the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre since 1999, following Meryl Tankard.Stewart studied at the Sydney City Ballet Academy and the Australian Ballet School...

Honour Bound Commissioned by Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...

 & Malthouse Theatre
Award for Dance on Film Sue Healey Will Time Tell Produced by Sue Healey
Award for Services to Dance Dally Messenger III & Karen van Ulzen

2006

Hosted by Todd McKenney
Todd McKenney
Todd McKenney is an Australian entertainer. He is best known as a judge on Australia's version of Dancing with the Stars.He has won many dancing titles, and has trained in jazz, tap, acrobatics and ballroom dancing...

, Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...

and Rachael Beck
Rachael Beck
Rachael Beck is an Australian stage and television actress.-Career highlights:Beck's best known role is that of Martin Kelly's niece, Sam, on the popular sitcom, Hey Dad...!....

 from It Takes Two. The winners were:
Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime Achievement Graeme Murphy
Graeme Murphy
Graeme Murphy is an Australian dance choreographer. Together with his fellow dancer Janet Vernon, he has guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies....

 and Janet Vernon
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Buzz Dance Theatre
Award for Services to Dance Hilary Crampton
Outstanding Achievement In Choreography Tanja Liedtke Twelfth Floor
Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance Clare Dyson Churchill’s Black Dog
Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer Kristina Chan Twelfth Floor (Tanja Liedtke Co.)
Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer Byron Perry Headlock (Kage Physical Theatre
Kage Physical Theatre
Kage Physical Theatre is a physical theatre/contemporary dance company founded in 1996, by Kate Denborough and Gerard van Dyck. They perform at the intersection of dance, circus and theatre...

)
Outstanding Performance by a Company Australian Dance Theatre
Australian Dance Theatre
The Australian Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman,...

Devolution by Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart has been the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre since 1999, following Meryl Tankard.Stewart studied at the Sydney City Ballet Academy and the Australian Ballet School...

Award for Dance on Film Sam James & Julie-Anne Long Nun’s Night Out

2005

Hosted by Chloe Dallimore
Chloe Dallimore
Chloe Dallimore is an Australian actor best known for her performance as Ulla in Mel Brooks' musical The Producers starring Bert Newton.- Filmography :-Theatre:- External links :* at the Internet Movie Database...

, the star of the Australian production of the musical "The Producers
The Producers (musical)
The Producers is a musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film of the same name, with lyrics written by Brooks and music composed by Brooks and arranged by Glen Kelly and Doug Besterman. As in the film, the story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich...

" and Eddie Perfect
Eddie Perfect
Eddie Perfect is an Australian actor, comedian and musician who currently plays Mick Holland in Channel Ten's Offspring series. He won the 2009 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, the Victorian Premier's Literacy Award and the Green Room Award for his musical, Shane Warne The...

. The winners were:
Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime Achievement Award Kathryn Lowe
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Jenny Kinder
Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer Margrete Helgeby Aqueous
Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer Dein Perry
Dein Perry
Dein Perry is an Australian actor, dancer and choreographer best known for his work with Tap Dogs.-References:-External links:...

Tap Dogs
Tap Dogs
"Tap Dogs" is a tap dance show, created by Australian dancer and choreographer, Dein Perry. The original production of the show had its world premiere in January 1995 at the Sydney Theatre Festival in Australia....

Outstanding Performance by a Company Force Majeure
Kate Champion
Kate Champion is a contemporary dance choreographer and the director of Force Majeure, a dance collective exploring strong physical performance.Champion began her dance training with Karen Kerkhoven and also studied in Munich...

Already Elsewhere Choreographed by Kate Champion
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography Wendy Houstoun, Narelle Benjamin, Brian

Carbee, Julie-Anne Long & Michael Whaites



Graeme Murphy
In the Dark





Grand
Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance Julie-Anne Long The Nun’s Picnic
Award for Services to Dance Mark Gordon
Mark Gordon
Mark Gordon is an American television and film producer.- Background :Gordon was born in Newport News, Virginia on October 10, 1956...

Award for Dance Film Gina Czarnecki Nascent Choreographed by Garry Stewart
Outstanding Performance in a Stage Musical Josef Brown in Dirty Dancing
Inducted to the Hall of Fame. Colin Peasley, John Lanchbery
John Lanchbery
John Arthur Lanchbery OBE was an English, later Australian, composer and conductor, famous for his ballet arrangements.-Life:...

 and Ross Stretton
Ross Stretton
Ross Stretton was an Australian ballet dancer and artistic director. As a dancer, he performed with the Australian Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre...


2004

Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Julie Dyson AM National Executive Officer
Executive officer
An executive officer is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.-Administrative law:...

 of Ausdance since the Australia Council began funding the organisation in 1985 also received the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award
Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards
The Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards honour Sidney Myer a Jewish Australian businessman and philanthropist who established what is now the Myer Foundation. These awards seek to enhance the status of the performing arts in Australia and recognise outstanding achievement in drama, comedy, dance,...

 for Administration in 1994
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Michelle Saunders General Manager of STEPS Youth Dance Company
Outstanding achievement in choreography Frances Rings
Frances Rings
Frances Rings is an Indigenous Australian dancer, choreographer and television presenter. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia and is a descendant of the Kokatha people...

Unaipon (Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Indigenous Australian contemporary dance company founded in 1989 by Carole Johnson, an African-American and founding director of National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association . Bangarra is the Wiradjuri word meaning "to make fire".Stephen Page has been the...

)
Outstanding Performance by a Company Australian Dance Theatre
Australian Dance Theatre
The Australian Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman,...

Held Choreographed by Garry Stewart.
Outstanding Performance by a female dancer Larissa McGowan Held (Australian Dance Theatre)
Outstanding Performance by a male dancer Patrick Thaiday

Paul Zivkovich
Unaipon]]

Held
Bangarra Dance Theatre

Australian Dance Theatre.
Outstanding Performance in a stage musical Chloe Dallimore
Chloe Dallimore
Chloe Dallimore is an Australian actor best known for her performance as Ulla in Mel Brooks' musical The Producers starring Bert Newton.- Filmography :-Theatre:- External links :* at the Internet Movie Database...

(The Producers
The Producers (musical)
The Producers is a musical adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' 1968 film of the same name, with lyrics written by Brooks and music composed by Brooks and arranged by Glen Kelly and Doug Besterman. As in the film, the story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich...

)
Outstanding achievement in independent dance Kate Denborough Nowhere Man (Kage Physical Theatre
Kage Physical Theatre
Kage Physical Theatre is a physical theatre/contemporary dance company founded in 1996, by Kate Denborough and Gerard van Dyck. They perform at the intersection of dance, circus and theatre...

)
Award for services to dance No award
Award for dance on film I Dream of Augustine Concept & Direction: Cordelia Beresford

Choreography & Performance: Narelle Benjamin

2003

Hosted by Libbi Gorr
Libbi Gorr
Lisbeth Joanne "Libbi" Gorr is an Australian broadcaster, writer, voice artist and journalist. She is also known for the satirical character that she created called "Elle McFeast"....

. The winners were:
Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Cheryl Stock As a performer, choreographer, artistic director, advocate, researcher, academic, and leader in tertiary dance education
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Keith Bain OAM
Outstanding achievement in choreography Graeme Murphy
Graeme Murphy
Graeme Murphy is an Australian dance choreographer. Together with his fellow dancer Janet Vernon, he has guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies....

 AM
Swan Lake
Swan Lake
Swan Lake ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger...

(Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company
The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group Ballet in a Nutshell by Suzanne Musitz , later changing its name to Athletes and Dancers, and Dance Company ...

)
Outstanding Performance by a Company Sydney Dance Company Underland Choreographed by Graeme Murphy.
Outstanding Performance by a female dancer Simone Goldsmith Swan Lake (The Australian Ballet)
Outstanding Performance by a male dancer Bradley Chatfield Underland Sydney Dance Company
Outstanding Performance in a stage musical Joshua Horner Tivoli Sydney Dance Company
Outstanding achievement in independent dance Helen Herbertson and Ben Cobham Morphia Series (Delirium and Morphia)
Award for services to dance Michelle Potter
Award for dance on film Sue Healey Fine Line

2002

Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Meryl Tankard
Meryl Tankard
Meryl Tankard is an Australian dancer and choreographer who has a wide national and international reputation....

Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Nanette Hassall Founder of Dance Works and currently Head of Dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , Edith Cowan University was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition comparable to the highest calibre of national and international training benchmarks to be able to meet industry needs around the globe.The school is located in the...

Outstanding achievement in choreography Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart
Garry Stewart has been the artistic director of the Australian Dance Theatre since 1999, following Meryl Tankard.Stewart studied at the Sydney City Ballet Academy and the Australian Ballet School...

The Age of Unbeauty (Australian Dance Theatre
Australian Dance Theatre
The Australian Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman,...

)
Outstanding Performance by a Company Australian Dance Theatre The Age of Unbeauty Choreographed by Garry Stewart.
Outstanding Performance by a female dancer Roz Hervey Same Same but Different (Force Majeure)
Outstanding Performance by a male dancer Dean Walsh The Age of Unbeauty Australian Dance Theatre
Outstanding Performance in a stage musical Todd McKenney
Todd McKenney
Todd McKenney is an Australian entertainer. He is best known as a judge on Australia's version of Dancing with the Stars.He has won many dancing titles, and has trained in jazz, tap, acrobatics and ballroom dancing...

Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...

Award for services to dance Ian McRae
Award for dance on film No award

2001

Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Shirley McKechnie OAM Professorial Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts
Victorian College of the Arts
The Faculty of the VCA and Music is a faculty of the University of Melbourne, in Victoria . VCAM is located near the Melbourne central business district, on two campuses, one - the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - on the Parkville campus of the University of Melbourne, and the other - the...

 and has pioneered of Australian contemporary dance in
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Margaret Markham Fellow of the Australian College of Educators
Australian College of Educators
The Australian College of Educators is the principal organisation representing the field of teaching and education in Australia, and acts as the independent interest body for Australian teachers...

 and founder of The McDonald College in 1984.
Outstanding achievement in choreography Graeme Murphy
Graeme Murphy
Graeme Murphy is an Australian dance choreographer. Together with his fellow dancer Janet Vernon, he has guided Sydney Dance Company to become one of Australia's most successful and well-known dance companies....

 AM
Tivoli Artistic director
Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

 of the now Sydney Dance Company
Sydney Dance Company
The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australia's most successful and well-known contemporary dance companies. The company was founded in 1969 as the dance-in-education group Ballet in a Nutshell by Suzanne Musitz , later changing its name to Athletes and Dancers, and Dance Company ...

, choreographed over forty works and was awarded the OM for his services to dance in Australia.
Outstanding Performance by a Company The Australian Ballet and

Sydney Dance Company
Tivoli Choreographed by Graeme Murphy as a joint production
Outstanding Performance by an Individual Harry Haythorne Tivoli Sydney Dance Company
Outstanding Performance in a stage musical Tracey Carrodus Tivoli Sydney Dance Company.
Award for services to dance Lucette Aldous
Lucette Aldous
-Biography:Born in Auckland, New Zealand, she undertook her early training in Australia, and later at the Royal Ballet School. She returned to Australia in 1970, quickly rising to Resident Principal Dancer with the Australian Ballet....

Ballerina and an inspirational teacher and mentor to students at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , Edith Cowan University was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition comparable to the highest calibre of national and international training benchmarks to be able to meet industry needs around the globe.The school is located in the...

Award for dance on film Boro's Ballet Directed by Michelle Potter and Sally Jackson

Produced by ScreenSound Australia

A documentary charting the work of choreographer Edouard Borovansky
Edouard Borovansky
Edouard Borovansky was a Czech- born Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and director. After touring with Anna Pavlova's company, he and his wife settled in Australia where they established the Borovansky Ballet company...

 and the foundation of the Boronovsky Ballet

2000

Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Kira Bousloff OAM
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Martin Rubenstein OAM
Outstanding achievement in choreography Ted Bransden Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

West Australian Ballet
West Australian Ballet
The West Australian Ballet is the premier ballet dance company of Western Australia and is based in Perth at His Majesty's Theatre, Western Australia. The company was founded in 1952 by Madame Kira Bousloff and is one of the oldest ballet companies in Australia. Artistic directors have included...

Outstanding Performance by a Company The Australian Ballet In the Middle Somewhat Elevated Choreographed by William Forsythe
William Forsythe (dancer)
William Forsythe is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt and The Forsythe Company...

Outstanding Performance by an Individual Steven Heathcote AM Don Quixote The Australian Ballet
Outstanding Performance in a stage musical Todd McKenney
Todd McKenney
Todd McKenney is an Australian entertainer. He is best known as a judge on Australia's version of Dancing with the Stars.He has won many dancing titles, and has trained in jazz, tap, acrobatics and ballroom dancing...

The Boy from Oz
The Boy from Oz
The Boy from Oz is a jukebox musical based on the life of singer/songwriter Peter Allen and featuring songs written by him. The book is by Nick Enright. The production had its world premiere, directed by Gale Edwards, at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, Australia, on 5 March 1998 and toured Brisbane,...

Award for services to dance Julie Dyson National Executive Officer of the Australian Dance Council
Australian Dance Council
The Australian Dance Council is a national dance advocacy organisation for dancers, choreographers, directors and educators. It has offices in the states and territory...

Award for dance on film No award

1999

Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Keith Bain OAM Fulfilled roles as dancer, teacher and choreographer and administrator over five decades, founder the Dancer's Picnic
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Professor Susan Street Performer, choreographer, educator and administrator.
Outstanding achievement in choreography Leigh Warren
Leigh Warren
Leigh Warren is an Australian contemporary dance choreographer and Artistic Director of Leigh Warren & Dancers having previously been at the Australian Dance Theatre...

Shimmer
Outstanding Performance by a Company Leigh Warren & Dancers
Leigh Warren & Dancers
Leigh Warren & Dancers is a contemporary dance company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Formed in 1993 by Leigh Warren , the company has toured internationally and won several awards....

Masterpieces of the 20th Century and

Shimmer
Outstanding Performance by an Individual Delia Silvan Silent Cries Leigh Warren & Dancers
Outstanding Performance in a stage musical Carolyn O'Connor Chicago
Chicago (musical)
Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...

A dancer, actress and singer in the London West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

 and Australia with roles in a number of classic stage musicals
Award for services to dance Kristian Fredrikson
Kristian Fredrikson
Kristian Fredrikson was a New Zealand-born Australian stage and costume designer working in ballet, opera and other performing arts. His work was acclaimed for its sumptuous, jewel-like quality, and a sensuous level of detail....

As a costume designer
Award for dance on film Restoration Direction: Cordelia Beresford.

Choreography & Performance: Narelle Benjamin and Solon Ulbrich

1998

Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Margaret Scott
Margaret Scott (dancer)
Dame Catherine Margaret Mary Scott, AC, DBE , best known as Margaret Scott, arrived in Australia in 1947 on tour with the Ballet Rambert and stayed there. She danced with the Sadler's Wells Ballet, appointed a principal dancer in 1941, and Ballet Rambert as a principal from 1943 to 1948...

 OBE

Valrene Tweedie OAM
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Joan Halliday OAM and

Monica Halliday OAM
Outstanding achievement in choreography Dein Perry
Dein Perry
Dein Perry is an Australian actor, dancer and choreographer best known for his work with Tap Dogs.-References:-External links:...



Stephen Baynes
Stephen Baynes
Stephen Baynes has been Resident Choreographer with The Australian Ballet since 1995. He trained with Joanne Priest and graduated from The Australian Ballet School in 1975...

Outstanding Performance by an Individual Damien Welch
Damien Welch
Damien Welch is an English born Rugby Union footballer who plays at lock for the Scarlets.-Club career:Welch played for Westwood Wanderers until the age of 16....



Djakapurra Munyarryun
Award for services to dance Tony Geeves Author of Safe Dance I and II

1997

Award Recipient Work Notes
Lifetime achievement award Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM

Laurel Martyn
Laurel Martyn
Laurel Martyn was an Australian ballerina. She studied under Kathleen Hamilton in Toowoomba, Marjorie Hollinshed in Brisbane, and Phyllis Bedells in London. In 1934 Martyn won a choreographic scholarship from the Association of Operatic Dancing for her first composition Exile...

 OBE
Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education Shirley McKechnie OAM

Ann Roberts

founder of Dancenorth
Outstanding achievement in choreography Stephen Page
Stephen Page
Born in Brisbane in 1965, Stephen Page is a descendant from the Nunukul people and the Munaldjali clan of the Yugambeh tribe from southeast Queensland...



Gideon Obarzanek
Gideon Obarzanek
Gideon Obarzanek is an Australian choreographer and the Artistic Director of Melbourne, Australia based contemporary dance company Chunky Move which he formed in 1995, in collaboration with Garry Stewart....

Artistic Director
Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

 of Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Indigenous Australian contemporary dance company founded in 1989 by Carole Johnson, an African-American and founding director of National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association . Bangarra is the Wiradjuri word meaning "to make fire".Stephen Page has been the...



Artistic Director of Chunky Move
Chunky Move
Chunky Move is an Australian contemporary dance company from Southbank, VictoriaIt was founded in 1995 and debuted at the Melbourne International Arts Festival with artistic director Gideon Obarzanek....

Award for services to dance Jill Sykes AM

Dally Messenger
Dance writer of the Sydney Morning Herald

Founder of Dance Australia

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