(2010-2011 Season)

The winners were honored in an awards ceremony, free to the public, held on Monday, March 26, 2012 at the ODC Theater, San Francisco, California.

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

MUSIC/SOUND/TEXT

  • Zakir Hussain, music for Sheherazade, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  • Jesse Olsen Bay (music) and Joe Goode (text), The Rambler, Joe Goode Performance Group, Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  • Jonathan Russell, musical direction, The Experience of Flight in Dreams, Garrett + Moulton Productions, ODC Theater

  • Alex Conde and Jose Valle “Chuscales,,” musical direction & arrangement, Una Nota Flamenca, Theater Flamenco, Cowell Theater

  • Zak Diouf, music, The Mysterious Snake, Diamana Coura, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland

VISUAL DESIGN

  • Axel Morgenthaler, Lighting Design; Robert Rosenwasser, Set and Costume Design; Colleen Quen, Costume Design, Scheherazade, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  • Christopher Haas, Set Design, Triangle of the Squinches, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  • Enrico Labayen, Costumes & Visual Design, En-Gulfed, Labayen Dance/SF, Dance Mission Theater

  • Alexander Nichols, Scenic Design; Mark Zappone, Costume Design; Christopher Dennis, Lighting Design,RAkU, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House

  • Olivia Ting, Media & Set Design, Passages: For Lee Ping To, Lenora Lee Dance, Dance Mission Theater

PERFORMANCE – INDIVIDUAL

  • Sofiane Sylve, Symphony in C, “2nd Movement,” San Francisco Ballet, Stern Grove Festival

  • Gennadi Nedvigin, as ‘Franz’ in Coppelia, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House

  • Jenna McClintock, When It Frays, Im’ij-re, West Wave Festival, Cowell Theater

  • Muriel Maffre, The Complete Works of Muriel Maffre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gallery 3

  • Tina Kay Bohnstedt, Lady of the Camellias, “Act 1 Pas de Deux,” Diablo Ballet, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek

PERFORMANCE – ENSEMBLE

  • Katie Faulkner and Brandon Private Freeman, Until We Know For Sure, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010-2011, ODC Theater

  • Anthony Spaulding and Sarah Van Patten, Underskin, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House

  • Christy Funsch and Nol Simonse, Etudes in Detention, Dance Mission Theater

  • Lorena Feijoo and Vitor Luiz, Talk To Her, and “Pas de Deux” from Le Corsaire, San Francisco Ballet, Napa Valley Festival Del Sole

  • Maria Kochetkova and Gennadi Nedvigin, Theme & Variations, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House

PERFORMANCE – COMPANY

  • The Dancers of Terra Incognita, Revisited, West Wave Festival, Z Space

  • Garrett + Moulton Productions, The Experience of Flight In Dreams, ODC Theater

  • Joe Goode Performance Group, The Rambler, Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  • Nimely Pan African Dance Company, Breaking of the Poro Bush, 33rd San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

  • San Francisco Ballet, Ghosts, War Memorial Opera House

  • Te Mana O Te Ra, Varua Te Fenua – The Spirit of the Land, 33rd San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival

RESTAGING/REVIVAL/RECONSTRUCTION

  • Antoine Vereecken, restaging of Chroma by Wayne McGregor (2006), San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House

  • Dennis Nahat, restaging of Giselle by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (1841), Ballet San Jose, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

  • Joe Goode, revival of 29 Effeminate Gestures, choreography by Joe Goode (1987) Brava Theatre

CHOREOGRAPHY

  • Alex Ketley, Kara Davis, Katie Faulkner, Manuelito Biag, Terra Incognita Revisited, West Wave Festival, Z Space

  • Amy Seiwert, Requiem, Smuin Ballet, Novellus Theater

  • Amy Seiwert, When It Frays, Im’ij-re, West Wave Festival, Cowell Theater

  • Janice Garrett & Charles Moulton, The Experience of Flight in Dreams, Garrett + Moulton Productions, ODC Theater

  • Mary Armentrout, the woman invisible to herself, Mary Armentrout Dance Theater, Milk Bar at the Sunshine Biscuit Factory

SPECIAL AWARD

  • Lorena Feijoo, Maria Kochetkova, Yuan Yuan Tan, Sarah Van Patten, & Vanessa Zahorian – “The Many Faces of Giselle” –  for 5 stellar interpretations of the title role in the quintessential romantic ballet Giselle, performed by the San Fancisco Ballet at the War Memorial Opera House

  •  Nina Menendez and The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership – for the 2010 Festival Flamenco Gitano which presented two multi-generational families of flamenco artists from the Spanish gypsy community of Andalucia in performances displaying how the music and dance traditions of flamenco are passed down through several generations

  •  Patty-Ann Farrell – for her lighting designs for the 33rd San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival at the Novellus Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT

  • Deborah DuBowy and Words on Dance – for 18 years of presenting celebrated dance artists with the opportunity to speak about their careers and share their passion for dance with the larger dance community

  •  Cathleen McCarthy and Joan Lazarus and West Wave Dance – for 20 years of presenting groundbreaking dance in the San Francisco Bay Area

  •  Dr. James Garrick and The Center for Sports Medicine at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital – for the Saint Francis Dance Medicine practice, created to meet the unique needs of stage performers