The Australian Dance Awards
The Australian Dance Awards were created to acknowledge and honour excellence in the professional dance sector in Australia.
Here are the awards with links to previous awardees
- Lifetime achievement award
- Outstanding achievement in dance education
- Outstanding achievement in choreography
- Outstanding performance by a company
- Outstanding performance by an individual
- Outstanding performance by a female dancer
- Outstanding performance by a male dancer
- Outstanding performance in a stage musical
- Outstanding achievement in independent dance
- Award for services to dance
- Award for dance on film
- Outstanding achievement in youth or community dance
The event aims to
- publicly honour and reward those who have, through their achievements, raised the standards of dance in Australia
- raise the profile and prestige of dance and acknowledge the depth and diversity of the dance profession in our society
- present a diverse performance program in support of the awards ceremony, representing excellence in the pinnacle of both innovative and established dance
Dance Awards background
Initiated in 1986 by Keith Bain OAM, the dance community in NSW gathered each year at the Dancers’ Picnic to celebrate the International Dance Days Honours. Eleven years later, in 1997, this event became the Australian Dance Awards.