National Dance Awards Critics' Circle
25 January 2011
The winners for 2011 were announced at a ceremony at Sadler's Wells on 24th January.
Patron of the Awards and ISTD Life President, Dame Beryl Grey spoke at the event: “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.”
The winners are :
THE DE VALOIS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
Alastair Spalding
Jann Parry
THE DANCING TIMES AWARD FOR BEST MALE DANCER
Ivan Vasiliev, Bolshoi Ballet
BEST FEMALE DANCER
Natalia Osipova, Bolshoi Ballet
BEST CLASSICAL CHOREOGRAPY
Liam Scarlett, The Royal Ballet, for Asphodel Meadows (award presented by Monica Mason)
BEST MODERN CHOREOGRAPHY
Russell Maliphant for Afterlight
BEST FOREIGN DANCE COMPANY
The Bolshoi Ballet
OUTSTANDING FEMALE PERFORMANCE (CLASSICAL)
Martha Leebolt, Northern Ballet
OUTSTANDING MALE PERFORMANCE (CLASSICAL)
Vadim Muntagirov, English National Ballet (award collected by Wayne Eagling)
OUTSTANDING FEMALE PERFORMANCE (MODERN)
Pieter Symonds (Rambert Dance Company)
OUTSTANDING MALE PERFORMANCE (MODERN)
Daniel Proietto
OUTSTANDING COMPANY
Rambert Dance Company (award presented by David McAllister of The Australian Ballet)
DANCE UK JANE ATTENBOROUGH INDUSTRY AWARD
Gill Clarke MBE