Critics' Circle National Dance Awards for 2018/19 (awarded at ceremony on 19th Feb 2020)

[Bluebird]

I'm sure there must be a thread with the nominations but I haven't managed to find it.  Perhaps moderators could move this there.

 

The winners of the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards:

Best male dancer
Marcelino Sambé, Royal Ballet

Best female dancer
Francesca Hayward, Royal Ballet

Outstanding company
San Francisco Ballet

Best independent company
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance

Best classical choreography
Alexei Ratmansky for Shostakovich Trilogy, San Francisco Ballet

Best modern choreography
William Forsythe for A Quiet Evening of Dance, Sadler’s Wells

Emerging talent
Stina Quagebeur, choreographer, English National Ballet

Outstanding female performance (classical)
Katja Khaniukova as Frida in Broken Wings, English National Ballet

Outstanding male performance (classical)
Gary Avis as Kulygin in Winter Dreams, Royal Ballet

Outstanding female performance (modern)
Solène Weinachter as Juliet in Juliet and Romeo, Lost Dog

Outstanding male performance (modern)
Jonathan Goddard for The Mother, Alexandra Markvo/Bird and Carrot

Outstanding creative contribution
Gavin Sutherland, conductor and music director, English National Ballet

De Valois award for outstanding achievement
Marion Tait

Edited February 19, 2020 by Bluebird

[Jan McNulty]

Hello Bluebird, although the award ceremony is today the awards cover the period 18/19 so I've adjusted your title.

 

I found the original thread about the nominations but it had become so off topic with pages of comments about a newspaper review that I think this stands better as a free-standing item.

 

Congratulations to all the winners and especially to the wonderful Marion Tait.

[Bluebird]

4 minutes ago, Jan McNulty said:

 

 

I found the original thread about the nominations but it had become so off topic with pages of comments about a newspaper review that I think this stands better as a free-standing item.

 

Congratulations to all the winners and especially to the wonderful Marion Tait.

 

Thank you, Janet. I'd also just found the original thread.  Since the nominations might, possibly, be of interest to some readers,  I'll paste them below and I'd also like to add my congratulations to all the winners.

 

Short-listed nominations for the National Dance Awards  (#NDA20), covering performances in the UK between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019:

 

DANCING TIMES AWARD FOR BEST MALE DANCER
Alexander Campbell (The Royal Ballet)
Jeffrey Cirio (English National Ballet)
Israel Galván (Compañia Israel Galván)
Vadim Muntagirov (The Royal Ballet)
Marcelino Sambé (The Royal Ballet)
 

BEST FEMALE DANCER
Sara Baras (Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras/Flamenco Festival)
Francesca Hayward (The Royal Ballet)
Katja Khaniukova (English National Ballet)
Laura Morera (The Royal Ballet)
Marianela Nuñez (The Royal Ballet)
 

STEF STEFANOU AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANY
Mark Morris Dance Group
Northern Ballet
The Royal Ballet
San Francisco Ballet
Scottish Ballet
 

BEST INDEPENDENT COMPANY
Ballet Black
James Cousins Company
National Dance Company Wales
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance
Yorke Dance Project
 

BEST CLASSICAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Patricia Guerrero for Catedral (Flamenco Festival)
Cathy Marston for Victoria (Northern Ballet)
Helen Pickett for The Crucible (Scottish Ballet)
Stina Quagebeur for Nora (English National Ballet)
Alexei Ratmansky for Shostakovich Trilogy (San Francisco Ballet)
 

BEST MODERN CHOREOGRAPHY
Matthew Bourne for Romeo + Juliet (New Adventures)
William Forsythe for A Quiet Evening of Dance (William Forsythe/Sadler’s Wells)
Shobana Jeyasingh for Contagion (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance)
Arthur Pita for The Mother (Alexandra Markvo/Bird & Carrot)
Pam Tanowitz for Four Quartets (Pam Tanowitz Dance)
 

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
Jemima Brown (Dancer, Tom Dale Company & James Cousins Company)
Salomé Pressac (Dancer, Rambert)
Mthuthuzeli November (Choreographer, Ballet Black)
Stina Quagebeur (Choreographer, English National Ballet)
Joseph Sissens (First Artist, The Royal Ballet)
 

OUTSTANDING FEMALE MODERN PERFORMANCE
Avatâra Ayuso in No Woman’s Land (AVA Dance Company)
Cordelia Braithwaite  as Juliet in Romeo + Juliet (New Adventures)
Jemima Brown in Epilogues (James Cousins Company)
Natalia Osipova in the title role as The Mother (Alexandra Markvo/Bird & Carrot)
Solène Weinachter as Juliet in Juliet & Romeo (Lost Dog)
 

OUTSTANDING MALE MODERN PERFORMANCE
Mathew Ball as the Swan/Stranger in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (New Adventures)
Jonathan Goddard in The Mother (Alexandra Markvo/Bird & Carrot)
Liam Mower as the Prince in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (New Adventures)
Joseph Sissens in Night of 100 Solos (Merce Cunningham Trust/The Barbican)
Saburo Teshigawara in The Idiot (Saburo Teshigawara/ The Print Room at the Coronet)
 

OUTSTANDING FEMALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE
Sara Baras in Sombras (Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras/ Flamenco Festival)
Francesca Hayward as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Ballet)
Katja Khaniukova as Frida in Broken Wings (English National Ballet)
Pippa Moore as Princess Beatrice in Victoria (Northern Ballet)
Anna Rose O’Sullivan as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Ballet)
 

OUTSTANDING MALE CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE
Gary Avis as Kulygin in Winter Dreams (The Royal Ballet)
Cesar Corrales as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Ballet)
Nehemiah Kish as the Husband in The Concert (The Royal Ballet)
Marcelino Sambé as the Blue Boy in Les Patineurs (The Royal Ballet)
Nicholas Shoesmith as John Proctor in The Crucible (Scottish Ballet)
 

OUTSTANDING CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION
Koen Kessels (Conductor; Music Director, The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet)
Nadine Meisner (Author, Marius Petipa: The Emperor’s Ballet Master)
Dimitris Papaioannou (Designer, The Great Tamer)
Peter Salem (Composer, The Crucible)
Gavin Sutherland (Conductor/ Music Director, English National Ballet)
 

Edited February 19, 2020 by Bluebird

[alison]

Thanks for posting, Bluebird.  And congratulations to all the winners - richly deserved, from what I've seen of them.

[zxDaveM]

Marion Tait - she cried, I cried, we all cried. One of the most deserving of the De Valois awards I've seen

[Odyssey]

So pleased for Marion Tait -so richly deserved.

[LinMM]

All really well deserved and especially after seeing the nominations ...some pretty good competition there in all categories!! 

Particularly pleased for Gavin Sutherland and Jonathon Goddard but all are amazing winners. 

[Bruce Wall]

A rich field of choice and chosen.  Especially pleased for the ever glorious Marion Tait and Gavin Sutherland - (for both of whom no amount of praise is ever sufficient in my book) - and heartened to see the award given to Katja Khaniukova for what was I thought a truly joyful break-out season in so many ways.   Also pleased to see SFB recognised for their presentation of the Ratmansky Trilogy - most especially after it had been so very poorly attended at Sadler's Wells.  Congratulations to all winners.  

Edited February 20, 2020 by Bruce Wall

[bridiem]

Shouldn't the choreography categories include the word 'new' because the nominees comprise only new or recent works/works not seen here before? (I assume they don't think the nominations are all better than pre-existing great choreography that was on show during the year.)

 

Either way, I'm glad the Shostakovich Trilogy was recognised; but SFB winning outstanding company seems a bit odd to me (though I thought they were excellent).

 

I'm particularly pleased about Gary Avis and Marion Tait.