ISADORA DUNCAN DANCE AWARDS COMMITTEE ANNOUNCES NOMINEES AND HONOREES FOR 2014-15 PERFORMANCE SEASON
San Francisco, California, February 2016 - The Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee announces the “Izzies” nominees and honorees for the 2014-2015 performance season. This year the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee will celebrate 30 years of honoring local dance artists by acknowledging their outstanding achievements in dance. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony held on March 21, 2016 at the Forum of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) located at 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. This is a free event, and it is open to the public. The doors open at 6 pm with a welcome reception, and the awards ceremony will start at 7 pm. The following is a list of Nominees and Honorees by awards category.
Outstanding Achievement in Choreography
Liss Fain, The Imperfect is Our Paradise, Liss Fain Dance, ODC Theater, San Francisco
Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton, Luminous Edge, Garrett/Moulton Productions, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Robert Moses, Thick/Silt/Powder/Death, Robert Moses Kin, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco
Yuri Possokhov, Swimmer, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Amy Seiwert, Back To, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, ODC Theater, San Francisco
Myles Thatcher, Manifesto, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Individual
Carolé Acuña, Unidad/Unity, Carolina Lugo's & Carolé Acuña's Ballet Flamenco, Peña Pachamama, San Francisco
Isaiah Bindel, Intima, dawsondancesf, Z Space, San Francisco
Katharine Hawthorne for her entire 2014-2015 season, San Francisco
Tetyana Martyanova, Sixes and Seven, Post:Ballet, Z Space, San Francisco
Pascal Molat, for his portrayal of Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Yuan Yuan Tan, for her entire 2014-2015 season, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Ensemble
Dorés André, Lorena Feijoo, Mathilde Froustey, Maria Kochetkova, Vanessa Zahorian, Carlo Di Lanno, Davit Karapetyan, Vitor Luiz, Steven Morse, Joseph Walsh, Dances at a Gathering, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Jeremy Bannon-Neches, Cora Cliburn, Aidan De Young, Christian Squires, Yours is Mine, Post:Ballet, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco
Mathilde Froustey and Tiit Helimets, Giselle, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Ilaria Guerra and Alexander Vargas, in this moment, dawsondancesf, Zaccho Dance Theatre, San Francisco
Laura O’Malley, Kara Wilkes, Robb Beresford, Michael Montgomery, Concerto for Two Violins, Section 2, LINES Ballet, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco San Francisco Ballet Corps de Ballet, The Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère, Act II, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Outstanding Achievement in Performance – Company
dawsondancesf, in this moment, Zaccho Dance Theatre, San Francisco
Sean Dorsey Dance, The Missing Generation, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Liss Fain Dance, A Space Divided, Z Space, San Francisco
Robert Moses Kin, Thick/Silt/Powder/Death, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum and ODC Theater, San Francisco
San Francisco Ballet, Swimmer, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, Sketch 5/Stirred, ODC Theater, San Francisco
Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text
Delina Patrice Brooks, text, An Open Love Letter to Black Fathers: A Choreopoem, The Flight Deck, Oakland
Toni Martin Dobrzanski, sound composition, Synaptic Motion, Capacitor, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco
Sean Dorsey, sound score design and text, original music by Jesse Olsen Bay, Alex Kelly, Ben Kessler, Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney, and sound engineering by Laura Dean, The Missing Generation, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco
Joan Jeanrenaud, score, Dead Reckoning, ODC Dance, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Pamela Z, sound score, Multiple Mary and Invisible Jane, Flyaway Productions, site specific performance at UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco
Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design
Frédéric O. Boulay, production and projection designer, Michael Oesch, lighting design, Phill Tew and Camille Utterback, visual artistic design, Dr. David Glowacki, danceroom Spectroscopy, Dances of the Sacred and Profane, Mark Foehringer Dance Project|SF, Cowell Theater, San Francisco
Lead designers: Jodi Lomask, overall visual design, Erik Walker, set design, Mary Franck, projection design. Contributors: Erich Chase, William Brinkert, Vytas Sunspiral, RJ Muna, John Fesenko, Wesley Grubbs, Ismael Alvarez Acosta, Leslie Channel, Johan Bichel Lindegaard, Colin Ho, Jenn Mann, Mark Nichols, Synaptic Motion, Capacitor, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco
Karl Gillick, Multiple Mary and Invisible Jane, Flyaway Productions, site specific performance at UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco
Eugene Korsunskiy (original design) and David K H Elliot (set/installation), “The Ball Chain Project,” Thick/Silt/Powder/Death, Robert Moses Kin, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum, San Francisco
Sean Riley, set design, Allen Willner, lighting design, Ian Winters, video design, Private Life, Deborah Slater Dance Theater, ODC Theater, San Francisco
Outstanding Achievement in Restaging / Revival / Reconstruction
Bart Cook, revival of The Four Temperaments (1946) by George Balanchine, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Jennifer Ringer Fayette and Jean-Pierre Frohlich, revival of Dances at a Gathering (1969) by Jerome Robbins, San Francisco Ballet, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
Joe Goode, revival of 29 Effeminate Gestures (1987), Joe Goode Performance Group, Z Space, San Francisco
Alonzo King, revival of Rasa (2007), LINES Ballet, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Bruce Steivel, restaging of Coppelia (1870) by Arthur Saint-Leon, Bay Pointe Ballet, San Mateo Center for the Performing Arts, San Mateo
Special Award Honorees
50th Anniversary Committee and Oakland Ballet Staff, Five Decades of Dance, Oakland Ballet, Paramount Theater, Oakland
Dancers Group and inkBoat, 95 Rituals (for Anna Halprin)
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Greta Schoenberg (Artistic Director) and Judy Flannery (Executive Director)
Deborah Slater and the Deborah Slater Dance Theater's presentation of Private Life marking the 25th anniversary of the company