Jan McNulty Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 The 19th National Dance Awards Announcement of Nominations The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 19th National Dance Awards, which are as follows: DANCING TIMES AWARD FOR BEST MALE DANCER Miguel Altunaga (Rambert) Akram Khan (Akram Khan Company) Brandon Lawrence (Birmingham Royal Ballet) Vadim Muntagirov (The Royal Ballet) Javier Torres (Northern Ballet) BEST FEMALE DANCER Alina Cojocaru (English National Ballet) Jurgita Dronina (English National Ballet) Dana Fouras (Russell Maliphant Company) Rocío Molina (Cía Rocio Molina/Dance Umbrella) Marianela Nuñez (The Royal Ballet) STEF STEFANOU AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANY Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Dresden Semperoper Ballett Northern Ballet The Royal Ballet Scottish Ballet BEST INDEPENDENT COMPANY [Sponsored by Dansez] Ballet Black BalletLORENT Lost Dog Russell Maliphant Company Yorke Dance Project BEST CLASSICAL CHOREOGRAPHY [Sponsored by The Ballet Association] William Forsythe for ‘Playlist (Track 1,2)’ (English National Ballet) Cathy Marston for ‘The Suit’’ (Ballet Black) Wayne McGregor for ‘Yugen’ (The Royal Ballet) Liam Scarlett for ‘Swan Lake’ (The Royal Ballet) Christopher Wheeldon for ‘Corybantic Games’ (The Royal Ballet) BEST MODERN CHOREOGRAPHY Ben Duke for ‘Goat’ (Rambert) Lin Hwai-min for ‘Formosa’ (Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan) Akram Khan for ‘Xenos’ (Akram Khan Company) Russell Maliphant for ‘maliphantworks 2’ (Russell Maliphant Company) Crystal Pite for ‘The Statement’ (Nederlands Dans Theater 1) EMERGING ARTIST AWARD [Sponsored by The L&M Trust] Precious Adams (First Artist, English National Ballet) Maya Jilan Dong (Choreographer & Dancer /Portraits of Otherness, Akram Khan Company) Daniel McCormick (Artist, English National Ballet) Joseph Sissens (First Artist, The Royal Ballet) Vanessa Vince-Pang (Dancer, Phoenix Dance Theatre) OUTSTANDING FEMALE MODERN PERFORMANCE [Sponsored by DWFM Beckman] Eleanor Duval as Lady Macbeth in ‘Macbeth’ (Mark Bruce Company) Rocío Molina in ‘Caída del Cielo/Fallen from Heaven’ (Cía Rocio Molina/ Dance Umbrella) Vidya Patel in ‘Usne kha tha/The Troth’ (Akādemi) Ashley Shaw in the title role as ‘Cinderella’ (New Adventures) Solène Weinachter as Juliet in ’Juliet and Romeo’ (Lost Dog) OUTSTANDING MALE MODERN PERFORMANCE Miguel Altunaga in ‘Goat’ (Rambert) Jonathan Goddard in the title role as ‘Macbeth’ (Mark Bruce Company) Akram Khan in ‘Xenos’ (Akram Khan Company) Russell Maliphant in ‘maliphantworks 2’ (Russell Maliphant Company) Dickson Mbi in ‘maliphantworks 2’ (Russell Maliphant Company) OUTSTANDING FEMALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE [Sponsored by Lee McLernon] Precious Adams as Calliope in ‘Elite Syncopations’ (Kenneth MacMillan: A National Celebration/English National Ballet) Alina Cojocaru as Aurora in ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ (English National Ballet) Constance Devernay as The Fairy in ‘Le Baiser de la fée’ (Scottish Ballet) La Chana in ‘Gala Flamenca/La Chana’ (Flamenco Festival) Marianela Nuñez as Odette/Odile in ‘Swan Lake’ (The Royal Ballet) OUTSTANDING MALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE [Sponsored by London Ballet Circle] José Alves in ‘The Suit’ (Ballet Black) Sergio Bernal in ‘The Swan’ in Russian Ballet Icons Gala (Ensemble Productions) Brandon Lawrence as Pan in ‘Arcadia’ (Birmingham Royal Ballet) Andrew Peasgood as The Young Man in ‘Le Baiser de la fée’ (Scottish Ballet) Aaron Robison in ‘Playlist (Track 1, 2)’ (English National Ballet) OUTSTANDING CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION Lucy Carter (Lighting Designer) Viviana Durante (Producer, Steps Back in Time) Philip Feeney (Composer/Music Arranger/Pianist) John Macfarlane (Designer) Gavin Sutherland (Conductor/Music Arranger/Musical Director) The winners will be announced at a lunchtime ceremony to be held in Central London on Monday, 18th February 2019. The event will also play host to the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement for which there are no prior nominations. The National Dance Awards have been organised by the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in each year of this Millennium to celebrate the vigour and variety of Britain’s thriving dance culture. They are presented by the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle, which brings together over 60 dance writers and critics. They are the only awards given by the body of professional dance critics in the UK. In announcing the awards, the chairman of the Dance Section, Graham Watts OBE, said: “This year, these short-listed nominees come from a long list of 396 dancers, choreographers, other creatives and companies nominated by professional dance critics, for work presented in the UK between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018. This year there is a new category – Outstanding Creative Contribution - which is to honour those who make creative contributions to dance, other than choreography, through, for example, music, design, dramaturgy or production. In total, 23 companies have nominees or are responsible for work nominated in the 2018 Awards, including five based overseas. The remarkable diversity of dance in the United Kingdom is evidenced by the fact that considerably more than half the UK-based nominees hail from overseas, their places of birth being in at least 20 different countries. English National Ballet tops the list with nine nominations; closely followed by The Royal Ballet equalling last year’s total of eight. Russell Maliphant Company has five nominations, followed by Akram Khan Company with four; and Rambert, Ballet Black and Scottish Ballet with three each; Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, Cía Rocío Molina/Dance Umbrella, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Mark Bruce Company and Lost Dog, each with 2 nominations. Russell Maliphant’s programme MaliphantWorks 2 garners the most production nominations with three, closely followed by Akram Khan’s Xenos, Cathy Marston’s The Suit, Liam Scarlett’s Swan Lake, Ben Duke’s The Goat, Mark Bruce’s Macbeth and Scottish Ballet’s revival of Le Baiser de la fée by Kenneth MacMillan, with two nominations each. The Awards Committee wishes to express grateful thanks to our sponsors, without whom the event would not be possible; to the body of dance critics across the UK for giving their time to ensure the best possible list of nominees; and, above all, the companies, choreographers and performers for giving us such a rich variety of choice”. Sponsorship opportunities exist to support the Best Female Dancer, Best Modern Choreography, Outstanding Male Modern Performance and Outstanding Creative Contribution Awards and/or to become a Patron of the Awards. To discuss these opportunities contact the Chairman, Graham Watts on graham@g-watts.com or +44 (0) 7710 057252, twitter: @NatDanceAwards Instagram: @national_dance_awards Facebook: National Dance Awards ENDS Notes: (1) To qualify for the NDA in 2018 performances will have been given in the UK between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018; (2) The Committee for the NDA in 2018 is: Zoe Anderson, Debra Craine, Sarah Crompton, Gerald Dowler, Maggie Foyer, Jonathan Gray, Lynette Halewood, Donald Hutera, Josephine Leask, Judith Mackrell, Bruce Marriott, Neil Norman, Graham Watts, Deborah Weiss and Lyndsey Winship 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 26, 2018 Author Share Posted November 26, 2018 Huge congratulations to all the nominees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Indeed, congratulations. Will be interested to see who wins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 The awards ceremony is being live-streamed from 12.50 today on the National Dance Awards' Facebook page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Thanks to DanceTabs for tweeting the complete list of winners. Congratulations to all the winners and, of course, all the nominees. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 This is one of those occasions when I feel a sense of contentment with the results as well as pleasure for the winners. It was a lovely celebration off wondrousness in the world of dance. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balletfanp Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Congratulations to all the winners! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Pictures of the nominees and award winners (and some random sponsors) by Elliott Franks 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Very random Nine pages. Gulp! I forgot to say congratulations to the winners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 I spy with my little eye a random sponsor breaking into a song and dance act! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 18 minutes ago, Ian Macmillan said: I spy with my little eye a random sponsor breaking into a song and dance act! It's the ballet arm positions... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 I've posted some photos too. Here some examples and a link to the rest: Maya Jilan Dong (nominated for Emerging Artist) - definitely the coolest person there! © Dave Morgan. Joseph Sissens (nominated for emerging artist award) - winner of best jacket, in my view © Dave Morgan. Jose Alves (winner - best classical performance) - also, happiest winner © Dave Morgan. See more... Set from DaveM: National Dance Awards 2018 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Dave, good to see you behind a camera once again - I've been missing you on LInks recently. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Me too. Keep ‘em coming Dave! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 Fab photos Dave. I echo Ian and Sim. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Great piccies! Love Jo...a throwaway jump just like that!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 (edited) Stunning frames, Dave .... You have the eye of a magnanimous master .... For that and ALL, much thanks Edited February 22, 2019 by Bruce Wall 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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