2000

(1998-1999 Season)

The awardees in the following categories were announced at the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Ceremony on April 24, 2000. 

The awardees are shown in boldface type. The other nominees are also listed, in regular type.

SOUND — MUSIC

  • Zakir Hussain, Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, choreography by Alonzo King, Lines Contemporary Ballet

  • I Made Subandi and Richard Marriott, co-composers of original score to accompany showing of Legong: Dance of the Virgins, 1935 silent movie by Henri De La Ralaise, Castro Theatert; performed by Gamelan Sekar Jaya and Club Foot Orchestra

  • Odile Lavault, Animal Acts, choreography by Stephen Pelton, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater

SOUND — TEXT

  • Remy Charlip, Internal Dance Number One, choreography by Remy Charlip, performance at the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival

  • Joe Goode, Hapless, choreography by Joe Goode, Joe Goode Performance Group

  • Krissy Keefer, Queen of Sheba, choreography by Krissy Keefer, Dance Brigade

VISUAL DESIGN — SETS

  • Matthew Antaky for the season, including:

    • Animal Acts, choreography by Stephen Pelton, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater

    • Sojourn at Alexandria, choreography by Liss Fain, Liss Fain Dance

    • Southern Girl, choreography by Lily Cai, Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company

  • Pyramid, Queen of Sheba, choreography by Krissy Keefer, Dance Brigade

  • Norman Rutherford, Jeffery Fitzsimmons, Elaine Buckholtz, Peter O. Kadyk, and Marintha Tewksbury, Brittle, choreography by Marintha Tewksbury, directed by Norman Rutherford.

VISUAL DESIGN — COSTUMES

  • Robert Rosenwasser and Sandra Woodall, Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, choreography by Alonzo King, Lines Contemporary Ballet

  • Cheryl Koehler, Butterfly, choreography by Claudine Naganuma, Summerfest 1999

  • Janet Nakamura and Wendy Sparks, Bach de Trois, choreography by Nikolai Kabaniaev, Diablo Ballet

VISUAL DESIGN — LIGHTING

  • Sara Linnie Slocum, Summerfest 1999

  • Patty-Ann Farrell, Beneath the Wake, choreography by Betsy Erickson, Oakland Ballet

  • Alex Nichols, Fault, choreography by Margaret Jenkins and Ellie Klopp, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

  • Tina Le Blanc, entire season, San Francisco Ballet

  • Krissy Keefer, Queen of Sheba, choreography by Krissy Keefer, Dance Brigade

  • Yuri Possokhov, entire season, San Francisco Ballet

  • Asako Takami, The Piper, choreography by Yasmen Sorab Mehta, California Contemporary Dancers

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

  • Evelyn Cisneros and Stephen Legate, Rubies, choreography by George Balanchine, San Francisco Ballet

  • Joe Goode and Wilis Bigelow, excerpt from Deeply There, choreography by Joe Goode, performance at the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival

  • Kathleen Hermsdorf and Katie Moreman, Fault, choreography by Margaret Jenkins and Ellie Klopp, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company

  • Marina Hotchkiss and Yannis Adoniou, Who Dressed You Like a Foreigner?, choreography by Alonzo King, Lines Contemporary Ballet

COMPANY PERFORMANCE

  • Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Fault, choreography by Margaret Jenkins and Ellie Klopp

  • African Queens, performance at the Ethnic Dance Festival

  • Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, Candelas, choreography by Lily Cai

  • Lines Contemporary Ballet, Who Dressed you Like a Foreigner, choreography by Alonzo King

  • Jose Navarrete and Arnel Santiago Alcordo, Essays on Tango, choreography by Jose Navarrete and Arnel Santiago Alcordo, performance at the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival

REVIVAL / RESTAGING / RECONSTRUCTION

  • Diversion of Angels, restaging by Marni Thomas, University Dance Theater, University of California, Berkeley; original choreography by Martha Graham

  • The Emperor and the Nightingale (1994), original choreography and revival/restaging by Michael Lowe, Oakland Ballet

  • Childhood Secrets (1989), original choreography and revival/restaging by Mel Wong, Mel Wong Dance Company

CHOREOGRAPHY

  • Brenda Way, Investigating Grace, ODC/San Francisco

  • Margaret Jenkins and Ellie Klopp, Fault, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company

  • Alonzo King, Who Dressed you Like a Foreigner?, Lines Contemporary Ballet

  • Mark Morris, Sandpaper Ballet, San Francisco Ballet

  • Jose Navarrete, Essays on Tango, performed at the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival

SPECIAL AWARDS

  • Linda Rawlings, for creation and development of New Shoes, Old Souls Dance Company, which has since 1993 produced dance concerts featuring perfomers over 40 with deep roots in the Bay Area and internationally renowned choreographers

  • Northern California Lindy Hop Society, for the Symposium on Lindy Hop they presented at SF State University as part of the 85th birthday celebrations for the great dancer Frankie Manning, inventor of the air step.
    This symposim brought together star dancers from the ‘30s, jazz musicians, and dance and film historians to illuminate this African American social dance whose offshoots — boogie-woogie, rock ‘n’ roll, and funk — dominated American social dance in the 20th century.

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

  • Ronn Guidi, for his dedication to bringing to contemporary audiences the beauty and excitement of early 20th century ballets of the Diaghilev repertory through revivals and restagings of the works of Nijinska and Massine for the
    Oakland Ballet

  • Wayne Hazzard, for his vision and dedication to the future of the Bay Area dance community through his leadership of Dancers Group Studio and development of supporting programs and services for new choreographers and performers.