2005

(2003-2004 Season)

The winners were announced at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Forum Theater on April 26, 2005.

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

MUSIC/SOUND/TEXT

  • Nanos Operetta – Serei/Spirits of Nature, Harupin-Ha

  • Sheila McCarthy – Ame to Ame, Inkboat

  • Mikel Rouse and Joe Goode – Grace, Joe Goode Performance Group

  • Omar Sosa – Resilience and Passages, Dimensions Dance Theater

VISUAL DESIGN 

  • Leslie Seiters – Such Tiny Danger, Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw

  • Marc Ates – Ame to Ame, Inkboat

  • Wayne Campbell – Ghost Architecture, Zaccho Dance Theater

  • David Fredrickson – Grim Arithmetic of Water, Flyaway Productions

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE 

  • Gina Dawson – California Stories: A time…A place, Rhodessa Jones: The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women

  • Gonzalo Garcia – Apollo, George Balanchine

  • Leigh Evans – When Day Became Night, Leigh Evans

  • Suhaila Salimpour – Sheherezade, Suhaila Salimpour

  • Sam Weber – Bay Area Tap Festival, Sam Weber

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE 

  • Shinichi Momo Koga and Yuko Kaseki – Ame to Ame, Inkboat

  • Jesselito Bie and Scott Wells – Your Move, Scott Wells and Dancers

  • Gabriel Forestieri and Christine Cali – Duet in 3 Parts: Fun, Struggle, May-be Beauty, Scott Wells and Dancers

  • Limon Dance Company – The Unsung, Limon Dance Company

  • Megan Schirle and David McCauley – Dance in a Wing Chair, AXIS Dance Company

COMPANY PERFORMANCE 

  • Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos – Mujeres, Yaelisa and Company

  • Joe Goode Performance Group – Grace, Joe Goode Performance Group

  • San Francisco Ballet – Four Temperaments, San Francisco Ballet

  • Gamelan Sekar Jaya – Tari Nelayan and Joged Bumbung, Gamelan Sekar Jaya

  • Scott Wells and Dancers – @848, Scott Wells & Dancers

RECONSTRUCTION/REVIVAL/RESTAGING 

  • Wendy Ellis Somes – Symphonic Variations, Sir Frederick Ashton, San Francisco Ballet

  • Carla Maxwell and Gary Masters – The Unsung, José Limon, Limon Dance Company

  • Lynn Wallis – Monotones I and II, Sir Frederick Ashton, San Francisco Ballet

CHOREOGRAPHY 

  • N'Deye N'Diaya Gueye – Kaolack and Thie Bou Dienne, Thiosanne Africa Senegalese Dance Company

  • Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw – Such Tiny Danger, Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw

  • Scott Wells – @848, Scott Wells & Dancers

  • Shinichi MOMO Koga, Yuko Kaseki and Marc Ates – Ame to Ame, Inkboat

  • Yuri Possokhov – Study in Motion, San Francisco Ballet

  • Reginald Ray-Savage – Freedom in Madness, Savage Jazz Dance Company

  • Heidi Schweiker – Of Checkered Breezes, Heidi Schweiker

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT 

  • Svetlana Afanasieva

  • Mary Ann Kinkead

  • Terry Sendgraff

  • Koichi and Hiroko Tamano

SPECIAL AWARD 

  • Luna Kids Dance

VOICEOFDANCE.COM AWARD

CRITIC OF MERIT

  • Anna Kisselgoff

BAY AREA CELEBRATES NATIONAL DANCE WEEK SPECIAL AWARD 

CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD

  • SPARK on KQED, A co-production of Public Television and Bay Area Video Coalition

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

  • Nancy Karp, Artistic Director, Nancy Karp + Dancers