Nominees

The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee exists to celebrate the unique richness, diversity, and excellence of Bay Area dance, and to foster a supportive environment for its growth and development.

Nominees for the 22nd Isadora Duncan Dance Awards are:

Music/Sound/Text

• Imani's Dream, Shout
• Abbos Kosimov, Shodiana
• Andrew Wass, Coping Mechanisms
• Under the Radar team with musical direction by Matthias Herrmann, Under the Radar
• Sean Dorsey, Ben Kessler (with Alex Kelly, Jeffrey Alfonsus Mooney), Bullied

• Zhao Dynasties, Peony Performing Arts
• Elaine Buckholtz, Lucy H G, paige starling sorvillo, thirty-seven isolated events, blindsight
• Matthew Antaky, Eimaj Designs, Flood, Liss Fain Dance
• Michael Bernard Loggins, Kim Epifano, Ron Reisner, Michael Stasiuk, Fears of Your Life, Kim Epifano's Epiphany Productions & AXIS Dance Company
• Jo Kreiter, David Fredrickson & Stephen McCaffery/Figureplant, Sean Riley, Live Billboard Project, Flyaway Productions

• Andrea Flores, Brandon Freeman, Anne Zivolich, Scissors/Paper/Rock, Brenda Way/ODC Dance Company
• Brett Conway, John Michael Schert, Benjamin Wardell, Keelan Whitmore, The Hierarchical Migration of Birds and Mammals, Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
• Jennifer Bishop-Orsulak, Kara Davis, Julian DeLeon, Heidi Schweiker, Nol Simonse, 10 Studies on the Vicissitudes of Grief, Janice Garrett & Dancers
• Danny Luong, Peter Luong, Lion Leaping Through the Plum Blossom Mountain to Reach the High Green, Leung's White Crane Lion and Dragon Dance Association
• Kara Davis, Nol Simonse, Exit Wound

• Alison Hurley, Full Evening, Savage Jazz Dance Company
• Amara Tabor Smith, Give Your Hands to Struggle, Urban Bush Women
• Hearan Chung, Shin Kal Deh Shin Mu, Hearan Chung
• Ibrahima Diouf, JUSAT, Diamono Coura West African Dance Company
• Nol Simonse, Full Evening, Janice Garrett & Dancers
• Tara Catherine Pandeya, Shodiana, Tara Catherine Pandeya

• Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, The Hierarchical Migration of Birds and Mammals
• Jess Curtis/Gravity, Under the Radar
• LIKHA-Pilipino Folk Ensemble, Kadayawan
• Loco Bloco Drum & Dance Ensemble & Fogo Na Roupa Drum & Dance Ensemble, Bateria Bay-Lleza de San Francisco y Grupo los Locos por Samba
• Scott Wells & Dancers, Gym Mystics & Wrestling with Affection

• 3 Epitaphs, Patrick Corbin, Company C
• Aunis, Jean-Claude Ciappara, San Francisco Ballet
• Blue Suede Shoes, Dennis Nahat, Ballet San Jose
• Misa Flamenca, Miguel Santos, Theatre Flamenco
• Sleeping Beauty, Helgi Tomasson, San Francisco Ballet

• Janice Garrett, 10 Studies on the Vicissitudes of Grief
• Under the Radar team with direction by Jess Curtis, Under the Radar
• Margaret Jenkins (with Melanie Elms), Waypoint
• paige starling sorvillo, thirty-seven isolated events
• Scott Wells, Gym Mystics & Wrestling with Affection

• Gabriela Shiroma, Diaspora Negra
• Chitresh Das, Kathak at the Crossroads

• Miguel Santos, retired in 2007 after 20 years as Artistic Director of San Francisco's Theatre Flamenco
• Pam Hagen, co-founder of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet in 1982
• Pick School of Ballroom Dancing, teaching ballroom dancing to San Francisco since 1961

For a list of previous nominees, please see past winners.