Date: Sunday 7 June
Time: All Day
Place: The Arts Centre, Melbourne
Cost: Tickets from $10, BOOK HERE or phone Ticketmaster on 13 61 00

The 12th Australian Dance Awards is presented by Ausdance Victoria.

The Australian Dance Awards Gala will take place at the Arts Centre, State Theatre in Melbourne on Sunday 7 June, featuring performances by some of Australia’s finest dance companies including The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Australian Dance Theatre (ADT), Balletlab, Stompin’, and more surprises to be announced shortly.

The Australian Dance Awards is a celebration of the excellence and variety of the Australian professional dance sector. It is the one-night-of-the-year when dance creators, performers, educators, filmmakers and enthusiasts gather together to acknowledge and honour their peers. It is also a not-to-be-missed opportunity for dance lovers to sample some of the best works of the last twelve months.

This will be the second year the Awards take place in Melbourne. Last year’s Awards attracted a near capacity crowd of over 1600 dance lovers, breaking all previous attendance records and proving positively that the Australian dance industry is in vibrant good health.

This year there will be eleven Awards including for the first time, “Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance’. The Awards identify Australian dance professionals, both in Australia and overseas, who have distinguished themselves in performance, choreography, design, dance writing, teaching and dance on film. A record-breaking 500+ nominations from dance lovers have been received this year. Below are the nominees:

Services to Dance

Lee Christofis

Shane Colquhoun

Ruth Osborne

Hilary Trotter

 

Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education

Ralph Buck

Valda Craig

Jeff Meiners

Maggi Phillips

 

Outstanding Achievement in Youth or Community Dance

QL2 Centre for Youth Dance for My Brother, My Sister

Restless Dance Theatre and Rawcus Theatre Company for The Heart of Another is a Dark Forest

Stompin for Uncover This

Tracks for Struck

 

Outstanding Achievement in Choreography

Rafael Bonachela for 360 Degrees

Kate Champion for The Age I’m In

Tanja Liedtke for construct

Gavin Webber and dancers for Remember Me

 

Outstanding Performance by a Company

The Australian Ballet for Swan Lake

Dancenorth for Underground

Force Majeure for The Age I’m In

Sydney Dance Company for Sid’s Waltzing Masquerade

 

Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance

Antony Hamilton for Blazeblue Oneline

Sue Healey for The Curiosities

Michelle Heaven in collaboration with Ben Cobham, Brian Lucas and Bill McDonald

for Disagreeable Object

Tanja Liedtke for construct

 

Outstanding Performance by a Female Dancer

Kristina Chan in construct (Tanja Liedtke)

Lisa Griffiths in Impulse and Shimmer (Leigh Warren & Dancers)

Annabel Knight in 360 Degrees (Sydney Dance Company)

Kirstie McCracken in Structure & Sadness (Lucy Guerin Inc.)

 

Outstanding Performance by a Male Dancer

Antony Hamilton in Corridor (Lucy Guerin Inc.)

Kevin Jackson in Manon (The Australian Ballet)

Reed Luplau in Sid’s Waltzing Masquerade (Sydney Dance Company)

Paul White in construct (Tanja Leidtke)

Remi Wörtmeyer in Manon (The Australian Ballet)

 

Outstanding Performance in a Stage Musical

Nick Twiney, Rarmian Newton, Rhys Kosakowski, Lochlan Denholm,

Joshua Waiss Gates, Dayton Tavares, Joshua Denyer & Michael Dameski in Billy Elliot The Musical

Genevieve Lemon in Billy Elliot The Musical

Amanda Harrison in Wicked

Eddie Perfect in Shane Warne The Musical

 

Dance on Film

Chris Scherer for If The Shoe Fits

Richard James Allen for Sleepwalking

Luke George, Daniel Speed, Sam Thiele & Adam Wheeler & for Uncover This – Hidden Cameras and Public Screens

Visit http://www.australiandanceawards.net.au for more info on their other events surrounding the awards gala.