Complete nominations list for 2014 Dance Awards

Here is the long list of nominees for 2014 Australian Dance Awards. This list, along with recorded excerpts of performances, will go to the Selection Panel who will vote on a shortlist of the top four contenders in each category.

The shortlist will be announced late July/early August. Shortlisted nominees will be notified directly before the public announcement.

The winners will be announced at the 2014 Australian Dance Awards in Sydney on Sunday 9 November.

Services to dance

  • Catherine Baldwin
  • Greg Barrett
  • Jeff Busby
  • Nicolette Fraillon
  • Annie Greig
  • Deborah Jones
  • David Walters

Services to dance education

  • Adele Hyland
  • Janet Karin OAM
  • Tanya Pearson
  • Lee Pemberton
  • Katrina Rank
  • Diana Reyes
  • Leigh Rowles
  • Carol Wellman Kelly

Outstanding achievement in youth or community dance

  • Buzz Dance Theatre for Look the Other Way
  • Canberra Dance Theatre GOLD Company for Life is a Work of Art
  • Dancenorth for Shake a Leg
  • DRILL Performance Company for REBELLION
  • fLiNG Physical Theatre for Socialsize Me
  • QL2 Dance for Hit the Floor Together
  • Restless Dance Theatre for Debut 4
  • Shaun Parker & Company and Buzz Dance Theatre (with Awesome Festival WA) for Trolleys
  • STEPS Youth Dance Company & STRUT for Trois Generations
  • Stompin for On Your Marks
  • Tracks Dance Company for Zombies in the Banyan Tree
  • Yellow Wheel for FX

Outstanding achievement in choreography

  • Rafael Bonachela for Les Illuminations, Sydney Dance Company
  • Rafael Bonachela for Emergence, Sydney Dance Company
  • Kate Denborough & Gerard van Dyck for Flesh & Bone, Kage
  • Daniel Jaber for Nought, Australian Dance Theatre
  • Stephanie Lake for Aorta, Chunky Move
  • Paul Malek & Kim Adam for Yours Truly, Collaboration The Project
  • Stephen Page & Daniel Riley McKinley for Blak, Bangarra Dance Theatre
  • Garry Stewart for Monument, The Australian Ballet
  • Leigh Warren for Not According to Plan, Leigh Warren & Dancers
  • Natalie Weir for When Time Stops, Expressions Dance Company

Outstanding performance by a company

  • The Australian Ballet for Cinderella
  • The Australian Ballet for Monument
  • Australian Dance Theatre for G
  • Australian Dance Theatre for Nought
  • Bangarra Dance Theatre for Blak
  • Chunky Move for Aorta
  • Circa for Opus
  • Dancenorth & Opera Queensland for Abandon
  • Expressions Dance Company for When Time Stops
  • Leigh Warren Dance for Not According to Plan
  • Lucy Guerin Inc. for Conversation Piece
  • Queensland Ballet for Cinderella
  • Sydney Dance Company for Les Illuminations
  • Sydney Dance Company for De Novo
  • West Australian Ballet for Peter Pan

Outstanding achievement in independent dance

  • Rochelle Carmichael for Plucked
  • Nat Cursio for Blizzard
  • Dance Makers Collective for Big Dance in Small Chunks
  • Martin del Amo for Slow Dances for Fast Times
  • DirtyFeet for Vitality
  • Melissa Jones for Disquiet
  • Phluxus2 Dance Collective for De-generator
  • Rennie McDougall for Yes Dance
  • Larissa McGowan for Skeleton
  • PROJECTion Dance for Swan Lake
  • Dalisa Pigram for Gudirr Gudirr
  • Lee Serle for POV
  • Aimee Smith for Wintering
  • Ade Suharto & Peni Candra Rini for Ontosoroh

Outstanding performance by a female dancer

  • Juliette Barton for Les Illuminations, Sydney Dance Company
  • Deborah Brown for Brolga (Kinship), Bangarra Dance Theatre
  • Yolande Brown for Blak, Bangarra Dance Theatre
  • Kate Denborough for Flesh & Bone, Kage
  • Madeleine Eastoe for La Sylphide, The Australian Ballet
  • Fiona Evans for La Sylphide, West Australian Ballet
  • Tammi Gissell for Seeking Biloela, Canberra Dance Theatre
  • Ingrid Gow & Halaina Hills for Cinderella, The Australian Ballet
  • Amy Harris for Cinderella, The Australian Ballet
  • Jessica Hesketh for Nought, Australian Dance Theatre
  • Alice Hinde for Abandon, Dancenorth
  • Samantha Hines for Nought, Australian Dance Theatre
  • Lucy Ingham for De-generator, Phluxus2 Dance Collective
  • Lana Jones for Don Quixote, The Australian Ballet
  • Fiona Jopp for Les Illuminations, Sydney Dance Company
  • Lauren Langlois for 247 Days, Chunky Move
  • Elise May for Carmen Sweet, Expressions Dance Company
  • Kirstie McKracken for Double Think, Force Majeure
  • Dalisa Pigram for Gudirr Gudirr, Marrageku
  • Tara Robertson for Blak, Bangarra Dance Theatre
  • Leanne Stojmenov for Cinderella, The Australian Ballet
  • Rachael Walsh for Giselle, Queensland Ballet
  • Charmene Yap for Les Illuminations, Sydney Dance Company

Outstanding performance by a male dancer

  • Waangenga Blanco for Blak, Bangarra Dance Theatre
  • Thomas Bradley for Emergence, Sydney Dance Company
  • Daryl Brandwood for Carmen Sweet, Expressions Dance Company
  • Andrew Crawford for Emergence, Sydney Dance Company
  • Cass Mortimer Eipper for Les Illuminations, Sydney Dance Company
  • Daniel Gaudiello for Cinderella, The Australian Ballet
  • Chengwu Guo for Paquita, The Australian Ballet
  • Rudy Hawkes for The Four Temperaments, The Australian Ballet
  • Daniel Jaber for G, Australian Dance Theatre
  • Kevin Jackson for Cinderella, The Australian Ballet
  • Bernard Knauer for Emergence, Sydney Dance Company
  • Alisdair Macindoe for Dual, Stephanie Lake
  • Hunter Page-Lochard for Blak, Bangarra Dance Theatre
  • James Vu Anh Pham for Aorta, Chunky Move
  • Andre Santos for Peter Pan, West Australian Ballet
  • Luke Smiles for Slow Dance for Fast Times, Martin del Amo
  • Kimball Wong for Nought, AustralianDance Theatre
  • Jack Ziesing for When Time Stops, Expressions Dance Company

Outstanding achievement in dance on film or new media

  • The Australian Ballet for Behind Ballet
  • Diane Busuttil for Curdled
  • Rochelle Carmichael for Plucked, Liquid Skin
  • Sue Healey for On View
  • Paul Malek & Yvette Lee for Dance Chat
  • Physical TV Company for '...the dancer from the dance'

Outstanding achievement in commercial dance or musical theatre

  • Timothy Brown for Salon
  • Rohan Browne for Singin’ in the Rain
  • Red Hot Rhythm for Rhythm Junkies
  • The Company for Hot Shoe Shuffle
  • The Company for Grease
  • The Company for The Tap Pack
  • The Company for King Kong
  • The Company for Chitty Chitty Bang