2009

(2007-2008 Season)

The awardees were announced at a free, open-to-the-public ceremony at Brava Theater, March 23rd, 2009.

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

MUSIC/SOUND/TEXT

  • Sean Feit, Sol Niger, Circo Zero

  • John Adams, Joyride, New Works Festival Program B, San Francisco Ballet

  • Delina Brooks, Beauty, The Beast: a dance-theater production

  • Dr. Anthony Brown + Fifth Stream Music, Cross Currents, Dimensions Dance Theater

  • Zakir Hussain, Rasa, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet

VISUAL DESIGN (COSTUMES/LIGHTS/SETS)

  • Della Davidson, David K.H. Elliott, Ellen Bromberg, Jennifer Michelson, Dawn Sumner, Louise Kellogg, Gerald Bawden, Oliver Kreylos, Michael Neff, Collapse (suddenly falling down), Sideshow Physical Theatre

  • Katie Faulkner, Benjamin Goldman, JC Earle, The Dry Line, little seismic dance company

  • Alexander V. Nichols, Other Suns, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company

  • Basil Twist, Dan Sweeney, Joe Goode, Wonderboy, Joe Goode Performance Group

  • Allen Willner, 51802, ESP Project

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

  • Emily Leap, Sol Niger, Circo Zero

  • Maria Kochetkova as Giselle in Giselle, San Francisco Ballet

  • Maria Basile, Birthing the Ascension, sjDANCEco

  • Edwardo (Eddie) Madril, Sun Dagger Solstice/Gifts of Creation, Hoop Dance

  • Shannon Roberts as Anita in West Side Story Suite, San Francisco Ballet

  • Anne Zivolich, A Walk in the Woods, ODC Dance

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

  • Rodney Bell, Sonsheree Giles, To Color Me Different, AXIS Dance Company, 2008 WestWave Dance Festival

  • Laurel Keen, Bret Conway, Rasa, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet

  • Gianna Davy, Kevin Delaney, Vespers, Company C Contemporary Ballet

  • Ceech Hsu, Dennis Infante, John Magat, Music is the Way, DS Players

  • Joanna Meinl, Rachna Nivas, Anjali Nath, Rina Mehta, Dmitra Smith, Seibi Lee, Farah Yasmeen Shaikh,Shabd, Chitresh Das Dance Company

  • Idan Yoav, Kevin Yee-Chan, Hlin Diego, Jeremy Kovitch, John Mercke, Katie Scherman, Passing, Zhukov Dance Theatre

COMPANY PERFORMANCE

  • InkBOAT, C(H)ord

  • AXIS Dance Company, the beauty that was mine/through the middle without stopping

  • De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association, Homenaje a mis maestros, 2008 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • Joe Goode Performance Group, Wonderboy

  • Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, 25th Anniversary Home Season

RESTAGING/REVIVAL/RECONSTRUCTION

  • Donald Mahler, Company C Contemporary Ballet, Dark Elegies by Anthony Tudor (1937)

  • Zenón Barrón, Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco, Danza del Venado by Amalia Hernández (1959)

  • Jean-Pierre Frohlich & Jenifer Ringer, San Francisco Ballet, West Side Story Suite by Jerome Robbins (1995)

  • Ronn Guidi, Oakland Ballet, Afternoon of a Faun by Vaslav Nijinsky(1912)

  • Jaime Martínez, The Envelope by David Parsons (1986), Company C Contemporary Ballet

CHOREOGRAPHY

  • Joe Goode, the beauty that was mine/through the middle without stopping, AXIS Dance Company

  • Kara Davis, one Tuesday afternoon…, 2008 WestWave Dance Festival, project agora

  • Jorma Elo, Double Evil, New Works Festival Program B, San Francisco Ballet

  • Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters, an attic an exit, lean to productions

  • Yuri Possokhov, guest choreographer, Sagalobeli, State Ballet of Georgia

SPECIAL AWARD Honorees

  • New Works Festival (2008), San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director
    10 world premieres by 10 renowned choreographers.

  • Loom, Katie Faulkner, Benjamin Goldman, 
    A 9-minute dance film choreographed and directed by Katie Faulkner with cinematography by Benjamin Goldman.

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT Honorees

  • Gary Masters, for 19 years of service to the dance community, especially in San Jose.

  • Cher Delamere, for almost three decades of service augmenting and maintaining the dance archives for The Bernard Osher Foundation Art, Music, & Recreation Center, San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch).