2011

(2009-2010 Season)

The winners were honored in an awards ceremony, free to the public, held on Monday, March 14, 2011 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco, California.

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

MUSIC/SOUND/TEXT

  • Abhinaya Dance Company and San Jose Taiko, music, Synergy, Abhinaya Dance Company and San Jose Taiko

  • The Cultural Heritage Choir and Fua Dia Congo drummers, music, Nzobi, Fua Dia Congo, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  •  Hope Mohr and Brenda Hillman, text, Far from Perfect, Hope Mohr Dance

  • Stellamara, Follow the Footprints, Wan Chao Dance, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • C.F. Kip Winger, music, Ghosts, San Francisco Ballet

VISUAL DESIGN

  • Matthew Antaky, lighting design; Christine Darch, costume design; and Frieder Weiss, video design, White Noise, Im’ij-re

  • Patty-Ann Farrell, lighting design and Aaron Sencil, costume and prop design, Pepe Hau, Hui Tama Nui, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • David Finn and Yuri Zhukov, visual design, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet

  • Mary Louise Geiger, lighting design; Laura Jellinek, scenic design; and Mark Zappone, costume design, Ghosts, San Francisco Ballet

  • Krissy Keefer, costume design, The Great Liberation Upon Hearing, Dance Brigade

  • Larry Reed, visual design and ZeJie Zheng, calligraphy design, The Good-for-Nothing-Lover, ShadowLight Productions 

PERFORMANCE - INDIVIDUAL

  • Jenna McClintock, Coppelia, Diablo Ballet

  • Nol Simonse, for his entire year of performances, including The Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater

  • Pascal Molat, for his entire year of performances, including the San Francisco Ballet and The Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater

  • Luisa Lopez Saavedra, La Marinera Norteña, El Tunante, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • Sofiane Sylve, in the middle, somewhat elevated, San Francisco Ballet

  • Yuan Yuan Tan, The Little Mermaid, San Francisco Ballet

PERFORMANCE - ENSEMBLE

  • Stephanie Bastos, Daniel Brevil, Guy de Chalus, Zakiya Harris, Eyla Moore, Veleda Roehl, Amara Tabor Smith, Adia Tamar Whitaker, and Sonia Whittle, Ampey!, a work-in-progress, 2009 CounterPULSE Performing Diaspora Festival

  • Jaime Garcia Castilla, Daniel Deivison-Oliviera, Vitor Luiz, Gennadi Nedvigin, James Sofranko, and Hansuke Yamamoto, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet

  • Heather Cooper and Brian Fisher, Another Time, Mark Foehringer Dance Project

  • Chad Dawson and Nol Simonse, Two Rooms, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater

  • Andrea Faraci and Iveta Pauryte, a season of International Standard Ballroom Dancing

  • Heather Cooper and Brian Fisher, Another Time, Mark Foehringer Dance Project

  • Private Freeman and Yukie Fujimoto, “Lettre à Jos” from Je Me Souviens, Sonya Delwaide at ODC

PERFORMANCE - COMPANY

  • Janice Garrett & Charles Moulton, The Illustrated Book of Invisible Stories, Garrett Moulten Productions, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum

  • American Conservatory Theater and various guest artists, The Tosca Project, American Conservatory Theater

  • Eszterlánc Hungarian Folk Ensemble, Traditional Dance Cycle from the Village of Magyarszovát, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • Hui Tama Nui, Pepe Hau, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • Natyalaya, Parvathi, the Divine, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • Scott Wells & Dancers, Ball-ist-ic, CounterPULSE

RESTAGING/REVIVAL/RECONSTRUCTION

  • Sonya Delwaide, “Lettre à Jos” from Je Me Souviens, Sonya Delwaide at ODC

  • Roslyn Anderson, Petite Mort, Smuin Ballet

  • Isabelle Fokine, Petrouchka, San Francisco Ballet

  • Mythili Kumar and Rasika Kumar, Varsha – The Rainy Season, Abhinaya Dance Company

  • Donald Mahler, Continuo, Ballet, San Jose

CHOREOGRAPHY

  • Sara Shelton Mann, tribes/dominion, Sara Shelton Mann Dancers

  • Wan-Chao Chang, Follow the Footprints, Wan-Chao Dance, 2010 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • Yuri Possokhov, Classical Symphony, San Francisco Ballet

  • Amy Seiwert, White Noise, Im’ij-re

SPECIAL AWARD

  • Brenda Way and ODC

  • YAK FILMS/Yoram Savion, Director

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT

  • Denise Jourdaine, Stephan Kraeul, and Rex Lewis, co-owners of Imperial Ballroom

  • Mythili Kumar, Founder and Director of Abhinaya Dance Company

  • Josefa Villanueva, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, Santa Clara Ballet