Australian Dance Awards 2016 Shortlist

AusDance announces the Shortlisted Nominees for 2016 Awards

18th September | Perth

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The annual Australian Dance Awards recognise and honour professional Australian dance artists who have made an outstanding contribution to Australian dance.

Services to Dance

• Geoff Cobham
• Jennifer Irwin
• Djakapurra Munyarryun
• David Page

Services to Dance Education

• Sally Chance
• Joan Pope OAM
• Katrina Rank
• Kim Walker

Outstanding Achievement in Community Dance

• Bangarra Dance Theatre for Rekindling Youth Program
• Dancenorth for Twilight
• TRACKSUIT (DADAA WA) for Small Fortunes
• Rawcus for Catalogue

Outstanding Achievement in Youth Dance

• Catapult Dance for The Flipside Project
• Force Majeure & Powerhouse Youth Theatre for Jump First, Ask Later
• QL2 Dance for Reckless Valour
• Slide Youth Dance Theatre for Time

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography

• Deborah Brown & Waangenga Blanco for I.B.I.S [Bangarra Dance Theatre]
• Force Majeure, Kate Champion & Ghenoa Gela for Nothing to Lose [Force Majeure]
• Lucy Guerin for Motion Picture [Lucy Guerin Inc.]
• Frances Rings for Sheoak [Bangarra Dance Theatre]

Outstanding Performance by a Company

• Bangarra Dance Theatre for Lore
• Sydney Dance Company for Frame of Mind
• Dancenorth for Spectra
• West Australian Ballet for Ballet at the Quarry: Zip Zap Zoom

Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance

• Gareth Belling and Collusion for Desirelines
• Antony Hamilton for NYX
• Sue Healey for On View: Live Portraits
• Victoria Hunt for Tangi Wai…the cry of water

Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer

• Madeleine Eastoe for Giselle [The Australian Ballet]
• Amber Haines for Syncing Feeling [Dancenorth]
• Elma Kris for Lore [Bangarra Dance Theatre]
• Brooke Widdison-Jacobs for Cinderella [West Australian Ballet]

Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer

• Chengwu Guo for The Dream [The Australian Ballet]
• Kevin Jackson for Giselle [The Australian Ballet]
• David Mack for Frame of Mind [Sydney Dance Company]
• Alisdair Macindoe for Motion Picture [Lucy Guerin inc.]

Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Dance, Musicals or Physical Theatre

• Circa for Il Ritorno
• Dream Dance Company for Genesis
• Opera Australia and John Frost for Anything Goes
• Michael Ralph for Georgy Girl

Outstanding Achievement in Dance on Film or New Media

• Stephen Page for Spear
• Pippa Samaya for Dancing in the Now
• Meryl Tankard & Kate Croser for Michelle’s Story
• Stephen Tannos for The Process

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