Ausdance is delighted to announce that nominations are now open for this year’s Australian Dance Awards, with the selection panel ready to receive your nominations for 2018 and 2019.
The announcement for this year’s Awards was postponed due to the COVID-19 lockdown, but the ADAs are open for business again, and nominations are welcome until Monday 22 June.
Anyone can nominate, and artists and companies can also now self-nominate in categories other than Lifetime Achievement, Services to Dance and Dance Education, with verifiable audience feedback and/or published reviews to support nominations.
We are now charging a nomination fee to support the Awards at a time when Ausdance National continues without funding. We will collaborate with our sponsors Harlequin Floors, Aon Risk Services, designfront and the Ausdance network to present the Awards later in the year (probably online), but your nomination fee will support whatever presentation ceremony is possible at the time.
The selection panel has been enlarged and diversified, and its voluntary members are ready to start work as soon as nominations close.
Please support this effort to keep the amazing achievements of the Australian dance community in the public eye. Acknowledgement of professional dance and its practitioners is enormously important, especially now.
You can see what Ausdance National has been doing this year via our online News.
If you are not already an Ausdance member, please consider joining so we can continue working with you.
Stay safe and nominate here!
Photo: David Kelly. Performers: Pol Andrés and Thió-Libby-Rose Niederer, Queensland Ballet.