Outstanding Achievement in Choreography

  1. 2011: Rafael Bonachela

    For a delicate combination of skill and vision to create an exquisitely crafted, beautifully balanced…

  2. 2010: Meryl Tankard & Paul White

    Meryl and Paul have created articulate and intricate choreography and presented it with a beautifully…

  3. 2009: Tanja Liedkte

    With her fresh, original vocabulary and unique style of expression, Tanja has made a captivating choreography…

  4. 2008: Garry Stewart

    Garry Stewart’s choreography in Honour Bound depicts current, social and political issues…

  5. 2006: Tanja Liedtke

    Twelfth Floor is a mature, imaginative and confronting piece, displaying vision and inventiveness…

  6. 2005: Graeme Murphy

    Grand is a clever, unusual and compelling collaboration between musician and choreographer…

  7. 2005: Wendy Houstoun, Narelle Benjamin, Brian Carbee, Julie-Anne Long, Michael Whaites

    The choreography for In the Dark combines language and movement in a way that is direct, meaningful…

  8. 2004: Frances Rings

    Frances has made remarkable and mesmerising choreography about the life of an extraordinary man. Unaipon

  9. 2003: Graeme Murphy AM

    Murphy’s fresh, dramatic and humourous take on this story is dynamic, entertaining and innovative.…

  10. 2002: Garry Stewart

    Garry pushes the boundaries of dance with this darkly disturbing picture of a world full of inhumanity.…

  11. 2001: Graeme Murphy AM

    Tivoli is Graeme’s homage to the era of variety theatre and this piece bombards the senses…

  12. 2000: Ted Brandsen

    Ted’s version of this story of love and deception is concise, refreshing, contemporary and powerful.…

  13. 1999: Leigh Warren

    The choreography for Shimmer, experienced in conjunction with the wonderful music played by the Zephyr…

  14. 1998: Stephen Baynes

    Stephen’s choreography demonstrates great sensitivity, expertise and musicality. At the Edge of…

  15. 1998: Dein Perry

    Dein is showing Australia and the world a new style of tapping that is distinctly Australian, completely…

  16. 1997: Stephen Page

    For Choreography made/performed during the year included: Fish, Awakening Ceremony-Festival of the…

  17. 1997: Gideon Obarzanek

    Choreography made/performed during the year included: Spectre in the Covert Memory, Bonehead, Iphigenia…