WINNERS OF THE 17TH NATIONAL DANCE AWARDS

The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the winners of the 17th National Dance Awards, which are as follows:

Veteran ballet dancer Beryl Grey won the De Valois award for outstanding achievement, with choreographer Brenda Last taking home the Industry award.

DANCING TIMES AWARD FOR BEST MALE DANCER – Chase Johnsey

Nominated:

• Tobias BATLEY (Northern Ballet)
• Alexander CAMPBELL (The Royal Ballet)
• Chase JOHNSEY (Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo)
• Vadim MUNTAGIROV (The Royal Ballet)
• Liam RIDDICK (Richard Alston Dance Company)

GRISHKO AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE DANCER – Francesca Hayward

Nominated:

• Francesca HAYWARD (The Royal Ballet)
• Ekaterina KRYSANOVA (Bolshoi Ballet)
• Laura MORERA (The Royal Ballet)
• Tamara ROJO (English National Ballet)
• Zenaida YANOWSKY (The Royal Ballet)

STEF STEFANOU AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANY – English National Ballet has won the outstanding company prize at this year’s Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards.

Nominated:

• Bolshoi Ballet
• English National Ballet
• Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
• Northern Ballet
• Scottish Ballet

BEST INDEPENDENT COMPANY – Gary Clarke Company

Nominated:

• Ballet Cymru
• DeNada Dance Theatre 
• Gary Clarke Company 
• Protein Dance 
• Sweetshop Revolution

BEST CLASSICAL CHOREOGRAPHY – Jonathan Watkins’ 1984, for Northern Ballet, won him the best classical choreography prize.

Nominated:

• Anabelle LOPEZ OCHOA – ‘Broken Wings’ (for English National Ballet)
• Jean-Christophe MAILLOT – ‘Taming Of The Shrew’ (for Bolshoi Ballet)
• Cathy MARSTON – ‘Jane Eyre’ (for Northern Ballet)
• Will TUCKETT – ‘Elizabeth’ (for The Royal Ballet)
• Jonathan WATKINS – ‘1984’ (for Northern Ballet

BEST MODERN CHOREOGRAPHY – Kim Brandstrup’s Transfigured Night, by Rambert.

Nominated:

• Kim BRANDSTRUP – ‘Transfigured Night’ (for Rambert)
• Javier De FRUTOS – ‘Anatomy of a Passing Cloud’ (for Royal New Zealand Ballet)
• Akram KHAN – ‘Until the Lions’ (for Akram Khan Company)
• Russell MALIPHANT – ‘Spiral Pass’ (for Bayerische Staatsballett Munich & Russell Maliphant Company)
• Crystal PITE – ‘Betroffenheit’ (for Kidd Pivot/Electric Company Theatre)

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD – Reece Clarke, first artist at the Royal Ballet, won the emerging artist award, marking the third year in a row the prize has gone to a Royal Ballet dancer.

Nominated:

• Reece CLARKE (First Artist, The Royal Ballet)
• Julie CUNNINGHAM (Freelance Choreographer)
• Tierney HEAP (Soloist, The Royal Ballet)
• Kateryna KHANIUKOVA (Junior Soloist, English National Ballet)
• Vidya PATEL (Guest artist, Richard Alston Dance Company)

OUTSTANDING FEMALE PERFORMANCE (MODERN) – Ching-Ying Chien

Nominated:

• Ching-Ying CHIEN (in ‘UNTIL THE LIONS’ for Akram Khan Company)
• Marivi DA SILVA (in ‘YOUNG MAN’ for Denada Dance Theatre)
• Christine Joy RITTER (in ‘UNTIL THE LIONS’ for Akram Khan Company)
• Hannah KIDD (as Penelope in ‘THE ODYSSEY’ for Mark Bruce Company)
• Vidya PATEL (as Princess Maria Barbara in ‘AN ITALIAN IN MADRID’ for Richard Alston Dance Company)

OUTSTANDING MALE PERFORMANCE (MODERN) – Jonathon Young

Nominated:

• Miguel ALTUNAGA (in ‘TRANSFIGURED NIGHT’ for Rambert)
• Daniel COLLINS (as Jekyll in ‘JEKYLL & HYDE’ for The Old Vic/The Mconie Company)
• Akram KHAN (in ‘UNTIL THE LIONS’ for Akram Khan Company)
• Liam RIDDICK (as Prince Ferdinand in ‘AN ITALIAN IN MADRID’ for Richard Alston Dance Company)
• Jonathon YOUNG (in ‘BETROFFENHEIT’ for Kidd Pivot/Electric Company Theatre

OUTSTANDING FEMALE PERFORMANCE (CLASSICAL) – Zenaida Yanowsky

Nominated:

• Francesca HAYWARD (in ‘RHAPSODY’ for The Royal Ballet)
• Ekaterina KRYSANOVA (as Katherina in ‘TAMING OF THE SHREW’ for Bolshoi Ballet)
• Martha LEEBOLT (as Julia in ‘1984’ for Northern Ballet)
• Tamara ROJO (as Frida Kahlo in ‘BROKEN WINGS’ for English National Ballet)
• Zenaida YANOWSKY (in the title role as ‘ELIZABETH’ for The Royal Ballet)

OUTSTANDING MALE PERFORMANCE (CLASSICAL) – Cesar Corrales

Nominated:

• Tobias BATLEY (as Winston Smith in ‘1984’ for Northern Ballet)
• Cesar CORRALES (as Ali in ‘LE CORSAIRE’ for English National Ballet)
• Chase JOHNSEY (in the title role as ‘PAQUITA’ for Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo)
• Vladislav LANTRATOV (as Petruchio in ‘TAMING OF THE SHREW’ for Bolshoi Ballet)
• Irek MUKHAMEDOV (as Diego Rivera in ‘BROKEN WINGS’ for English National Ballet)