Nominate

Nominate any time for the 2012 awards

You can nominate a professional choreographer, dancer or company for an Australian Dance Award. You can nominate professional performance that has premiered (or been remounted, recast) between 1 January and 31 December 2011. If a work was not a premiere in this period, you can still nominate dancers and companies for outstanding performance awards.

You can also nominate a long-serving professional for a Lifetime Achievement award or for Services to Dance Education and Services to Dance.

Nominations close 29 February 2012.

Why do they deserve an award?

Try to say in 2–3 sentences, why you thought the dancer/choreography/company/production was outstanding, exceptional, innovative etc., and therefore worthy of recognition and reward from the professional dance community. Your supporting comments help convince selection panel who may, or may not, have seen the performance.
 If you are nominating someone for Lifetime Achievement or a service award, the nominee should have had a significant impact nation-wide, and possibly internationally as well.

Please note: the number of nominations is not a deciding factor.

Nomination form

  1. This award honours the achievements of an outstanding senior figure in the Australian dance community who has dedicated at least 40 years to dance as a performer, choreographer, advocate, educator, administrator or visionary.

    0 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  2. This award acknowledges outstanding service by professionals in a dance or dance-related field including, musical composition, lighting design, costume design, set design, photography, writing, administration, criticism, historical research, community dance practice, youth dance practice, health and injury prevention etc.

    1 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  3. This award acknowledges outstanding service to dance education as a studio teacher; a teacher in a school/college/university system; a dance-in-education company; a mentor, advocate or researcher; a youth or community dance practitioner.

    0 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  4. This award honours an outstanding project produced by an individual or team working in youth or community dance.

    3 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  5. This award honours an outstanding achievement by an individual choreographer, or choreographic team, for a specific work.

    0 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  6. This award acknowledges an outstanding performance by a company for a specific work. A 'company' must have a legal administrative structure and a board. If not, the group belongs in the Independent category.

    1 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  7. This award acknowledges an outstanding new work by an independent dance artist/s. (Including, but not limited to, performance, choreography, movement direction, lighting design, sound design or score.)

    2 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  8. This award acknowledges an outstanding performance by a female dancer.

    1 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  9. This award acknowledges an outstanding performance by a male dancer.

    1 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours

  10. This award acknowledges an outstanding dance or movement performance by an individual, company or ensemble in a stage musical.

    0 nominations have submitted within the last 24 hours