Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work

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Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work
CountryAustralia
Presented byLive Performance Australia
First award2001
Currently held bySheoak, Bangarra Dance Theatre (2016)
Websitewww.helpmannawards.com.au

The Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work was a dance award presented by Live Performance Australia at the annual Helpmann Awards from 2001 to 2016.[1] The Helpmann Awards are Australia's national awards for live performance.

From 2017, the award was superseded by separate Helpmann award categories for Best Ballet and Best Dance Production.

Indigenous contemporary dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre received the award six times, and The Australian Ballet won it four times.

Winners and nominees

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   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.
Year Title Production company(ies)
2001
(1st)
Skin Bangarra Dance Theatre
Body of Work - A Retrospective Sydney Dance Company
Hydra Chunky Move
Coppelia West Australian Ballet
2002
(2nd)
Requiem Australian Ballet & State Opera of South Australia
Corroboree Bangarra Dance Theatre
Eidos:Telos (Ballett Frankfurt) Melbourne Festival
Tivoli Australian Ballet & Sydney Dance Company
2003
(3rd)
Swan Lake The Australian Ballet
The Age of Unbeauty Australian Dance Theatre
Ellipse Sydney Dance Company
Walkabout Bangarra Dance Theatre
2004
(4th)
Bush Bangarra Dance Theatre
Great Piper Dances Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Opera House
Held Australian Dance Theatre in association with Adelaide Bank 2004 Festival of Arts and Anchorage Concert Association (Alaska)
Underland Sydney Dance Company
2005
(5th)
Shen Wei Dance Arts Sydney Festival in association with Sydney Opera House
Already Elsewhere Sydney Festival
Mr. B - A Tribute to George Balanchine The Australian Ballet
Shades of Gray Sydney Dance Company
2006
(6th)
Jiri The Australian Ballet
A Midsummer Night's Dream West Australian Ballet
An Evening of Works by Russell Maliphant George Piper Dances presented by Sydney Festival
I Want to Dance Better at Parties Chunky Move presented by Sydney Festival
2007
(7th)
Structure & Sadness Lucy Guerin Company
Lawn Brisbane Powerhouse
Monumental Melbourne International Arts Festival and Ros Warby
zero degrees Les Ballets C. De La B. and Akram Khan Company presented by Sydney Festival
2008
(8th)
Glow Chunky Move presented by Melbourne Festival
Nutcracker The Australian Ballet
Roadkill Brisbane Powerhouse and Dancenorth choreographed by Splintergroup
Sacred Monsters Akram Khan Co. presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts 2008, Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Powerhouse
2009
(9th)
Mathinna Bangarra Dance Theatre
Firebird The Australian Ballet
Two Faced Bastard Melbourne International Arts Festival and Chunky Move
we unfold Sydney Dance Company
2010
(10th)
FIRE Bangarra Dance Theatre
Dyad 1929 The Australian Ballet
Harakiri - a rite STRUT dance
KORPER Melbourne International Arts Festival and Sasha Waltz
2011
(11th)
Where the Heart Is Expressions Dance Company and Queensland Performing Arts Centre
Sutra Sydney Opera House and Brisbane Festival
Amplification BalletLab and Phillip Adams (with C.U.B Malthouse)
Vertical Road Melbourne Festival and Akram Khan Company
2012
(12th)
Can We Talk About This? Presented by DV8 Theatre and Sydney Opera House. Co-produced by Theatre de la Ville and Festival d'Automne Paris, National Theatre of Great Britain and Dansens Hus Stockholm
Anatomy of an Afternoon Martin del Amo, Performing Lines and Sydney Festival
Aviary: A Suite for the Bird Phillip Adams BalletLab in Melbourne Festival 2011
MASS Dancenorth
2013
(13th)
TERRAIN Bangarra Dance Theatre
Black Project 1 & 2 Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House & Insite Arts
Keep Everything Chunky Move
Cacti Sydney Dance Company
2014
(14th)
Chroma The Australian Ballet
Ballet at the Quarry: Radio and Juliet West Australian Ballet presented in association with Perth International Arts Festival
Bolshoi Ballet – The Bright Stream Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Tourism and Events Queensland
Sadeh21 Batsheva Dance Company, Adelaide Festival and Perth International Arts Festival
2015
(15th)
Frame of Mind Sydney Dance Company
MEETING Antony Hamilton Projects, Arts House and Insite Arts
Motion Picture Lucy Guerin Inc in association with Arts House
precipice Rachel Arianne Ogle
2016
(16th)
Sheoak Bangarra Dance Theatre
Cockfight Performing Lines and The Farm
Habitus Australian Dance Theatre
Spectra Dancenorth

See also

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References

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