2012 UK National Dance Awards – Winners Announced

The Awards have been tweeted live and have just finished – here is a consolidated list of all the winners.

Huge congratulations to all from DanceTabs… A gallery of pictures will follow shortly

The 13th National Dance Awards
Winners Announced

The Place, London: Monday, 28^th January 2013
 
The awards are decided by the 60 members of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle after an extensive round of nominations and voting. To be eligible, performances had to take place in the UK between 1st September 2011 and 31st August 2012

The Nominations Announcement can be found here.
 

The 2013 Winners

DANCING TIMES AWARD FOR BEST MALE DANCER
Akram KHAN (Akram Khan Company)  

GRISHKO AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE DANCER
Marianela NUÑEZ (Royal Ballet)

STEF STEFANOU AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING COMPANY
Royal Ballet Flanders

BEST CLASSICAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Annabelle LOPEZ OCHOA (‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ for Scottish Ballet)

BEST MODERN CHOREOGRAPHY
Arthur PITA (‘The Metamorphosis’)

OUTSTANDING FEMALE PERFORMANCE (CLASSICAL)
Ksenia OVSYANICK (English National Ballet)

OUTSTANDING MALE PERFORMANCE (CLASSICAL)
Zdenek KONVALINA (English National Ballet)

DANCERS PRO AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING MODERN PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)
Teneisha BONNER (Zoonation)

DANCERS PRO AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING MODERN PERFORMANCE (MALE)
Tommy FRANZÉN (Zoonation & Russell Maliphant Company)

BEST INDEPENDENT COMPANY
Ballet Black

DE VALOIS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
ROBERT COHAN

DANCE UK INDUSTRY AWARD
JEANETTE SIDDALL
 

The full list of dancers, choreographers and companies nominated for National Dance Awards can be found at www.criticscircle.org.uk.

Speaking at the event, the Chairman of the Awards committee, Graham Watts OBE, conveyed the best wishes of the UK dance critics, award nominees and guests to Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin, recently injured in a cowardly and monstrously inhuman assault, and dedicated the 2012 awards to the memories of our late colleagues Charles Hedges, John Percival and Freda Pitt, all of whom have died since the last awards. In the year of the Centenary of the Critics’ Circle, the combined years of membership for these three critics totalled a century.

The 2012 National Dance Awards Sponsors are: Grishko, Dancing Times, Dancers Pro, Stef Stefanou, The Office for Architectural Culture, The Ballet Association, Lee McLernon, The Critics’ Circle and Dance UK for the Jane Attenborough Dance UK Industry Award.

ENDS
 

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