The Eleventh Annual National Dance Awards
Sadler’s Wells, London: 24 January 2011
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards took place at Sadler’s Wells, London today, 24th January. Patron of the Awards, Dame Beryl Grey says: “I am delighted that the awards are now entering their second decade and have established an important, permanent and valuable place in the annual dance calendar. They set out to celebrate the richness and variety of dance work presented on stage each year, nurturing innovation and acknowledging excellence. I offer my congratulations to all those dancers and choreographers and companies who have been nominated for awards and now especially to the winners. Your creative energies and remarkable achievements have been justly recognized. Well done.”
2010 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards
Winners 2010 Outstanding Male Performance (Modern)
• Daniel Proietto / Russell Maliphant Company
Best Classical Choreography Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) Outstanding Male Performance (Classical) Best Modern Choreography Jane Attenborough Dance UK Industry Award Best Female Dancer The Dancing Times Award for Best Male Dancer
De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement
• Jann Parry
• Alistair Spalding
Outstanding Female Performance (Classical)
• Martha Leebolt / Northern Ballet
Best Foreign Dance Company
• The Bolshoi Ballet
• Liam Scarlett for Asphodel Meadows by the Royal Ballet
• Pieter Symonds / Rambert Dance Company
• Vadim Muntagirov / English National Ballet
• Russell Maliphant for Afterlight in The Spirit of Diaghilev programme at Sadler’s Wells
• Gill Clarke MBE / Dance Artist
• Natalia Osipova / Bolshoi Ballet
Outstanding Company
• Rambert Dance Company
• Ivan Vasiliev / Bolshoi Ballet
The Awards celebrate the vigour and variety of Britain’s thriving dance culture and highlight the huge range of dance on offer. They are the only professional awards in the UK dedicated to dance and are presented by the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle, which brings together more than 50 dance writers. As part of the awards’ unique partnership with Sadler’s Wells and the Royal Opera House, the ceremony alternates between the two venues.
The awards sponsors are: The Monument Trust, Dancing Times; and Dance UK in association with Gordon and Co for the Jane Attenborough Dance UK Industry Award.
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